Hee! I have the nasty feeling that sending knickers to Roddenberry might have given him entirely the wrong idea.... ;)
B5 and HL were both internet-era, though on a much smaller scale - I was never one of the B5 mega-fans but I can remember all the fuss when, after months of the American fans chucking spoilers around with abandon, British TV overtook them for a few episodes and things got a tad messy! ;) Was never into HL but while I've heard of the ructions over Richie, it sounds as though things were saner than with Ianto. Mind you, I guess there were other major slash pairings in that fandom, and there are few who wouldn't appear sane compared to some of the nutters currently running around!
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B5 and HL were both internet-era, though on a much smaller scale - I was never one of the B5 mega-fans but I can remember all the fuss when, after months of the American fans chucking spoilers around with abandon, British TV overtook them for a few episodes and things got a tad messy! ;) Was never into HL but while I've heard of the ructions over Richie, it sounds as though things were saner than with Ianto. Mind you, I guess there were other major slash pairings in that fandom, and there are few who wouldn't appear sane compared to some of the nutters currently running around!