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- Summary: Abbreviations for use in the Subject line for rec.arts.tv.soaps.*
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- Original Author: Melissa Wauford
- Maintainer: Margaret Gibbs
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- [Last changed - 1997/06/16]
- [Changes since last posting - none]
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-
- 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/part1
- thru part4, or send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with any or all of:
- send usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq/part1
- send usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq/part2
- send usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq/part3
- send usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq/part4
- 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 whichever r.a.t.s.* group you
- are posting to.
-
- ABC - All ABC daytime soaps (PC, AMC, OLTL, GH)
- CBS - All CBS daytime soaps (Y&R, B&B, GL, ATWT)
- NBC - All NBC daytime soaps (DOOL, AW, SUBE)
-
- AMC - All My Children
- AW - Another World
- ATWT - As the World Turns
- B&B - The Bold & the Beautiful
- CITY - The City
- DOOL - Days of Our Lives
- GH - General Hospital
- GL - Guiding Light
- LOV - Loving
- OLTL - One Life to Live
- PC - Port Charles
- SB - Santa Barbara
- SUBE - Sunset Beach
- Y&R - The Young & the Restless
-
- BH - Beverly Hills 90210
- CPW - Central Park West
- HF - Homefront
- KL - Knots Landing
- LGO - Life Goes On
- PP - Pacific Palisades
- SAV - Savannah
- SIS - Sisters
-
- 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: AMC: TAN: Unca Matt
-
- Discussion threads which stray off the topic of the soap should be renamed
- to include the TAN indicator.
-
-
-
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- copyright 1995-1997, Margaret D. Gibbs. Use and copying
- of this information are permitted as long as (1) no fees or
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