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- Archive-name: tv/x-files/uk-faq/part2
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- Last-modified: 30 September 1996
- Version: 3.82
- URL: http://www.netvision.co.uk/x-files/home.html
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- Part 2 of The UK TXF FAQ
-
- What is The X-Files?
-
- BBC
-
- Season Three will probably be screened on BBC 1 on Thursday 12th
- September at 9.30pm, with the end-of-season-2 climax episode, Anasazi,
- aired on Monday 9th September. The BBC will be showing the episodes
- completely uncut.
-
- Sky
-
- The X-Files is a one hour program on Sky, due to the insertion of
- adverts. Season 3 has been aired on Sky One, Tuesdays at 9pm, uncut!!
- (well, almost.) Season 4 will begin in February, 1997.Currently, Season
- 2 episodes are being repeated on Sky One, on Sundays at 8pm.
-
- The X-Files is produced by Ten Thirteen Productions for Twentieth
- Century Fox Television.
-
- About
-
- The X-Files is a television program that deals with, basically, the
- paranormal. There are two main characters, Dana Scully (played by
- Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny). Both work
- for the FBI, in the Violent Crimes section.
-
- Neither character is normally referred to by their forenames; they
- refer to each other as 'Scully' and 'Mulder'.
-
- The characters work from opposite viewpoints, Mulder being the believer
- and Scully being the dis-believer. Scully was assigned to help Mulder
- with the X-Files and to debunk his theories. She has been unable to do
- this with some of the cases.
-
- The majority of The X-Files is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
-
- The X-Files is NOT based on true events or real FBI X Files. The
- episodes are fiction, the plots loosely based on news reports of
- unexplained events around the world and other unexplained phenomena.The
- pilot does open with a note saying that the events were based on an
- actual real life story, but was not meant to imply that they are real X
- Files.
-
- Newsgroup uk.media.tv.sf.x-files posting guidelines
-
- Purpose of the newsgroup
-
- The purpose of uk.media.tv.sf.x-files is to facilitate discussion about
- the television programme The X-Files from a UK perspective.It was
- created as the American groups contained spoiler information from
- episodes yet to be seen in the UK.
-
- Spoilers
-
- The subject of spoilers has aroused much debate in the news group.It
- generates such strong feelings that it was felt necessary to include a
- section in this FAQ outlining the majority view on the subject.
-
- * Absolutely no spoilers for episodes yet to be broadcast in the UK
- to be posted. Any person breaking this is likely to be soundly flamed.
- (This includes information gained from attendance at conferences.)
- * Any discussion of an episode broadcast on Sky (satellite) which has
- not been seen on the BBC, must have "spoiler protection" - see below.
- This essentially means Season 2, which has not been shown terrestrially
- yet.
-
- Spoiler protection
-
- Articles which require spoiler protection (see above), should observe
- the following guidelines.
-
- The subject line should be of the form:
- *SPOILER* E3.19 Hell Money Where "E3.19" is season 3, episode 19, and
- "Hell Money" is the name of the episode. The episode names and numbers
- are available elsewhere in this FAQ.
-
- The body of the article should have a minimum of 25 lines of spoiler
- space (i.e. blank lines). If your software allows please also add a
- Ctrl-L character to this.
-
- General netiquette
-
- Here are some general guidelines on what is and is not generally
- considered acceptable practice in uk.media.tv.sf.x-files. Their intended
- purpose is not to hinder discussion but to enhance it.
-
- * Do not post binaries.
-
- Users of most dial-up connections have to pay for the time they are
- on-line receiving news, so will not appreciate a large GIF deposited in
- their news base via their phone line.If you do have an image which you
- feel will enhance the lives of others, put it on an ftp site, so only
- those who want it need download it.
-
- In addition to this, the news administrators at certain sites do not
- carry binary groups due to disk space requirements, so lots of people
- posting binaries is likely to get the group removed from some news
- sites, reducing propagation.
-
- * Make sure your postings are word wrapped to around 72 columns at
- most.
-
- Many users read news on 80 column screens (or 80 column fixed font
- windows in graphical interfaces) and so postings which exceed this and
- overflow each line are very unreadable and might not be read.
-
- Setting the width to 72 allows your article to be quoted and re-quoted
- without exceeding 80 columns.
-
- * Keep your signature to reasonable proportions.
-
- The accepted Usenet limits are a maximum of 4 lines long, less than 80
- characters wide. This is for reasons of both bandwidth (cost to dial-up
- users) and courtesy to others (a 20 line ASCII art representation of the
- view from your living room may be impressive once, but needless to say 3
- or 4 viewings later it can become very tedious indeed).
-
- * Do not quote entire articles when following up.
-
- Please only quote enough of the article to give context to your reply.
- It is considered very bad practice to quote headers and/or signatures as
- there is no need for it - headers in particular are very boring things
- indeed.
- * Read your article before posting it.
-
- Make sure you take the time to re-read your words of wisdom before
- posting them, to check that it all makes sense and you aren't about to
- start a flame war...
-
- * Please keep postings on-topic to The X-Files.
-
- Please refrain from discussing your next door neighbour's cat or what
- your favourite flavour of ice cream is. There are places for such
- discussions but uk.media.tv.sf.x-files is not one of them.
-
- * Do not post private email without the author's permission
-
- This is equivalent to broadcasting the contents of a private letter or
- phone call on national TV without authorization from the sender.
-
- * Do not post advertisements.
-
- Only on-topic adverts *may* be considered acceptable, e.g.conventions
- with a X-Files element. Think very carefully before submitting any
- sort of advert.
-
- * Do not post test messages.
-
- There are several groups specifically for test messages. Most will also
- generate email responses automatically from across the world to confirm
- article propagation. Three I know of are: demon.test, uk.test, and
- misc.test.
-
- If you require further guidance on netiquette, you should take the
- newsgroup news.announce.newusers which is low traffic and moderated.
-
-
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