I do think we should look at the TOCs to see if there is one for the story in question, and if so, follow it--but contacting the author beyond that I'm beginning to think ought to be completely optional.
So maybe we make a general announcement that if an author wants a very old fic (many of which had stuff hosted on the old mbs and the actual story parts are gone so impossible to tell where the breakpoints were) split a certain way, they need to dump it into a doc file and split it and then offer to e-mail it to whoever's converting the fic . . . How does that sound? Put the onus of that on authors, because frankly, with the sheer amount of fics I'm converting, I don't have the time to contact a half dozen authors about two or three stories apiece.
