1995 February 10, Mark Thompson, “Re: What is Fair Use?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[1] (Usenet):
Basically, the point I'd like to point out is that *I* didn't think there was any criticism of the writing going on at all in that MSTed post.
1998 September 26, Brandon Ray, “Re: What is Fair Use?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[2] (Usenet):
But you can't quote large chunks, and MSTing a story would seem to me to be across the line into infringement.
1998 September 27, Laura Burchard, “Re: What is Fair Use?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[3] (Usenet):
Now this is *good* MST3K -- the thing that would have irritated me if I was one of the authors MSTed at the site in question was that was *lame* MSTing.
1999 January 19, Lauryn137, “Re: Duh... MORE NEWBIES OF NOTE.”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[4] (Usenet):
Lauryn, who thinks she may be MSTed someday ... oh well ...
2000 September 8, Teddi Litman, “Re: some legal discussion of the recent unpleasantness”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[5] (Usenet):
It's a matter of picking specific stories as the most horrible and *trying* to MST them. I say trying to MST because instead of inserting biting but funny comments, they tend to insert biting but boring grammar corrections which, incidentally, are not always accurate.
2002 August 3, ForwardPast, “Re: Blanket Permission To MST 3”, in alt.startrek.creative[6] (Usenet):
Maybe that's why its[sic] considered bad etiquette to MST without permission.
2003 April 4, glitter, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[7] (Usenet):
The person doing the MSTing takes the you-know-what out of badly written fan fic, writing as one or more of the characters.
2003 April 5, Frank White, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[8] (Usenet):
Look it up and see if you don't agree that this story deserves to be MSTed, if not completely erased from existance[sic]...
2003 April 6, Tennant Stuart, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[9] (Usenet):
I have written fanfics also, and anyone wanting to MST them most certainly does not have my permission, and had better watch out.
2003 April 13, James Burbridge, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[10] (Usenet):
Ratliff's fics have loads of bad syntax from a stylistic point of view, and a few real howlers, but if they were as impenetrably bad at grammar as many of the MSTed "badfics" I've seen they wouldn't be nearly as notorious as they are, because nobody could get through them.
2003 April 8, Petrea Mitchell, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[11] (Usenet):
Well, I *don't* approve of MSTing stuff which is already good.
2003 May 13, shellebelle, “Re: Food for Thought - Draco-the mis-understood.”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[12] (Usenet):
O great Merlin! You MSTed him! LOL! Thanks, this made me laugh....
2003 June 4, Dragon Friend, “Re: Need advice I have a serious *crush* on Snape & Draco”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[13] (Usenet):
The jokes were very funny personally I am hoping that FEnM is going to MST the post you are replying to Troels as I assume you have cut some of it... how about it Catherine?
Noun: "(fandom slang) a parody fanfic created in this manner"[edit]
1998 September 27, Teddi Litman, “Re: What is Fair Use?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[14] (Usenet):
It might have been fun to read MSTs or other parodies of some of our favorite, classic fanfics.
1998 October 14, debbi...@my-dejanews.com, “Wheeeeee, We Havin' Fun Now!!”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[15] (Usenet):
Send us more MSTS!
1999 January 31, Laura Burchard, “Re: alt.tv.x-files.creative.mature: a brief history”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[16] (Usenet):
That last one would be the one that Hindy replied to protesting the appropriation of her work in the MSTs, and inquiring if it was bliss.
1999 March 10, Teddi Litman, “Re: THE ACID DESK: Vol 1, No 9 - Plagarism Proof”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[17] (Usenet):
The commentary in the MSTs may have been nasty and uncalled for; but it was not plagiarism.
2003 April 4, Frank White, “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[18] (Usenet):
Some authors' MSTs even take on a life of their own. The interactions between the characters they are using to review the fan-fic can become so interesting and absorbing (with loves, hates, mutual respect and sympathy, etc, etc developing between them) that the MST is actually an interruption in the story, especially if the same characters are used over and over for a variety of MSTs.
2003 April 8, Igenlode W., “Re: Fan fics?”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[19] (Usenet):
The only MSTs I've seen (on alt.drwho.creative) have been of perfectly good fan fiction, deliberately cut about to make it look silly (truncating a character's words in the middle to create an[sic] non-existent innuendo, for example) - and those were *with* the authors' permission.
2003 June 18, Craig McMartin, “Re: Hasta!”, in alt.fan.harry-potter[20] (Usenet):
Goodbye Catherine! Come back soon! We'll all miss your unique style of MSTs! I know i will!! ;_;