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From: "Melissa Wauford, UTCC" <MWAUFORD@UTKVX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps,rec.answers,news.answers
Subject: *** REC.ARTS.TV.SOAPS POSTING GUIDELINES ***
Supersedes: <tv/soaps/abbrevs_761584275@rtfm.mit.edu>
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Date: 21 Mar 1994 10:53:59 GMT
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Reply-To: mwauford@utkvx.utk.edu (Melissa Wauford)
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[Last changed - 08/26/93]
[Changes since last posting - None.]
One of the following abbreviations should be used at the beginning of the
subject line of all postings to rec.arts.tv.soaps. For example:
Subject: DOOL - Update for Thursday
or
Subject: AMC: Tad and ?
This will allow those who use rn or any other method of pre-selecting
articles to determine whether they wish to read the article or not. For
information on these methods see the monthly Frequently Asked Questions
posting by Margaret Gibbs (gibbsm@ll.mit.edu). The FAQ is available for
anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in /pub/usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq
or send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing
"send /pub/usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq" in the body of the message.
Remember that if you want to write about, for example, AMC and GH in the
same article, half of your intended audience may filter out whichever
abbreviation you put first. In such a case you should use the network
abbreviation or, as a last resort, post the article twice.
ALL - To be seen by all readers of r.a.t.s
ABC - All ABC daytime soaps (LOV, AMC, OLTL, GH)
CBS - All CBS daytime soaps (Y&R, B&B, GL, ATWT)
NBC - All NBC daytime soaps (DOOL, AW)
AMC - All My Children
AW - Another World
ATWT - As the World Turns
B&B - The Bold & the Beautiful
DOOL - Days of Our Lives
GH - General Hospital
GL - Guiding Light
LOV - Loving
OLTL - One Life to Live
Y&R - The Young & the Restless
BH - Beverly Hills 90210
SIS - Sisters
SANDS - Shifting Sands (net-written soap)
Many of the soap subgroups use the abbreviation TAN (for tangent) to
indicate postings which don't necessarily have to do with that soap but
which should be addressed to that subgroup. General intra-group banter can
then be differentiated from actual information and commentary on that soap.
The TAN abbreviation should always follow the soap abbreviation, as in the
following example:
Subject: DOOL: TAN: A New Peel Sister
Discussion threads which stray off the topic of the soap should be renamed
to include the TAN indicator.
--
Melissa
mwauford@utkvx.utk.edu