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Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Message-ID: <tv/xena-wp/Usenet_1022235344@rtfm.mit.edu> Supersedes: <tv/xena-wp/Usenet_1016963989@rtfm.mit.edu> Expires: 25 Jun 2002 10:15:44 GMT References: <tv/xena-wp/About_1022235344@rtfm.mit.edu> X-Last-Updated: 2000/02/15 From: "Paul Hilling" <p.hilling@bigfoot.com> Newsgroups: news.answers,alt.tv.xena,alt.answers,alt.tv.xena-subtext.misc Subject: Alt.Tv.Xena FAQ, (Part 2/5): About Usenet and the ATX News Group Followup-To: alt.tv.xena Organization: University Of Life Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Reply-To: <p.hilling@bigfoot.com> Keywords: Xena, FAQ, Gabrielle, Warrior Princess X-Disclaimer: Approval for *.answers is based on form, not content Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU Date: 24 May 2002 10:16:41 GMT Lines: 813 NNTP-Posting-Host: penguin-lust.mit.edu X-Trace: 1022235401 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 3963 18.181.0.29 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu news.answers:231058 alt.tv.xena:148320 alt.answers:62096 alt.tv.xena-subtext.misc:7301 Archive-name: tv/xena-wp/Usenet Posting-Frequency: Bi-weekly or whenever Last-modified: 15th February 2000 Version: 3.1.2.3 Copyright: (c) 1997-2000 Paul A Hilling Copyright: (c) 1997 Edward T. Smith Copyright: (c) 1997 A. J. Firebaugh Copyright: (c) 1996 Michael L. Martinez Maintainer: Paul Hilling (p.hilling@bigfoot.com) URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~p.hilling/atx-faq.htm URL: http://members.xoom.com/AtxFAQ/atx-faq.htm NOTE: This document is not intended to infringe upon MCA or Universal Studios or Studios USA in any way. ================================================================= Portions of this document are Copyright (C) 1996 by K. Wieczerza and used by permission. This file may be freely copied and redistributed. All I ask is that it remains whole and intact and that this notice is not altered. ================================================================= This document is intended to provide answers to certain questions that come up regularly on the alt.tv.xena news group. People who are new to the news group are encouraged to read this document before posting questions to alt.tv.xena. Michael Martinez originally created this FAQ in accordance with the prevailing traditions and customs of the Internet, which place high value on the free dissemination and exchange of information. It has since been trashed and rearranged it into multiple smaller documents. This is a living document. As new information is made available by the producers of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS I'll try to update this file. Also, corrections will be made as I discover them or I am informed about them. Please feel free to notify me of any errors that you find. Paul Hilling <p.hilling@bigfoot.com> ================================================================= This FAQ is available via ftp from: ftp://ftp.rtfm.mit.edu To get a copy of this FAQ by e-mail, send an e-mail to p.hilling@bigfoot.com with "ATX-FAQ REQUEST" in the subject. ================================================================= This document uses the following conventions: Names of television shows are given in ALL CAPS. Names of episodes are given in "quotes". X:WP is an acronym for XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS. H:TLJ is an acronym for HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS. X is sometimes used for "Xena", especially in making reference to both Xena and Gabrielle (as "X and G"). LL is sometimes used for "Lucy Lawless". ROC is sometimes used for "Renee O'Connor". ATX refers to the newsgroup Alt.Tv.Xena ================================================================= ================= Table Of Contents ================= Section II: About Usenet and the Alt.Tv.Xena News Group 1. What is the purpose of alt.tv.xena? 2. What sort of stuff should I post to this news group? 3. What sort of stuff should I NOT post to this news group? 4. What happens if I post something I shouldn't? 5. Okay, but what if I want to post binary files SOMEPLACE? 6. Why is posting a binary file to a non-binary news group such a problem? 7. What if I accidentally post something I don't want to? 8. What are "spoilers" and "spoiler space"? 9. What is a "Xenite"? 10. I'm a new poster/reader of ATX, Is there anywhere where I can aquaint myself with the conventions of the newsgroup"? 11. What is the deal with the "6. There is no number 6"? 12. What's this <OT> and <SP> all about? 13. What the heck does BGSB or GGGHD mean? 14. What do "Flaming" and "Flame War" mean? What can I do about it? 15. I just read a post I thought was abusive, either towards me or another person. What can I do about it? 16. What is Net Abuse and where can I learn more about it? 17. Is Alt.Tv.Xena moderated or censored in anyway? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Section II: About Usenet and the Alt.Tv.Xena News Group ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is the purpose of alt.tv.xena? ANSWER II.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a news group dedicated to the discussion of the television show XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS and related topics. XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS is an hour-long action-adventure series exclusively distributed in syndication in the United States by MCA TV and internationally by MCA TV International. It premiered the week of September 4, 1995 as a spin-off of the successful HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS series. "...[it] combines mythology with martial arts action, big-screen special effects and spectacular New Zealand scenery..." -- from the official MCA Web site (http://www.mca.com/tv/xena/) "Surrounded by enemies, barbaric tribes, slave traders, and a host of other evils, Xena is on a mission to help people free themselves from tyranny and injustice." -- from the official MCA Web site (http://www.mca.com/tv/xena/) ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What sort of stuff should I post to this news group? ANSWER II.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~ You are welcome to post any article dealing with any aspect of the show, its characters, its actors or the production company, related topics (such as ancient history and mythology), books, magazines, newspapers that concern the show or its actors, and information about the production company, fan activities and interests, and things like that. Such articles should be in plain text whenever possible, as not all readers can read content rich (or HTML) articles. Although you'll see disagreements here (and the occasional flame war), people sometimes will try to calm things down by quoting Xena: "Be Niiice!" It's good advice. There's no reason to go ballistic just because someone else doesn't share your opinion. But that's your choice to make. Posts about the "Jack Of All Trades", and "Cleo 2525" shows are also allowed here, until they get newsgroups of their own. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What sort of stuff should I NOT post to this news group? ANSWER II.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Most articles are forgivable unless they are :- 1. Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) posts of any kind. Also known as Make Money Fast posts (MMF). 2. Advertising or Spam, of any kind, unless it relates to either X:WP, or it's actors. Such adverts should be as short as possible, and posted once per vendor per week. 3. Binaries, (which can be either pictures, programs, sounds, or compressed archive files) of any kind. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What happens if I post something I shouldn't? ANSWER II.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~ You may get flamed. But in general people at ATX are friendly people. However, you are bound to catch someone who is having a bad day. But if you post the pyramid scheme, people may complain to your ISP, even if you try to fake your account, and you may lose your account for that reason (but that's between you and your provider). Some unscrupulous people may mail-bomb you by sending your article right back at you 1000 or 10,000 times. Or they may subscribe you to many mailing lists, rendering your account unusable. THESE ARE NOT PROPER RESPONSES TO USENET ABUSE, but they can happen and we cannot prevent people from declaring war on you. If you've read this far into the FAQ and you post one of the above articles anyway, you're on your own and you'll get no sympathy from the rest of us. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Okay, but what if I want to post binary files SOMEPLACE? ANSWER II.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey, binary files are welcome on the Usenet! Just make sure you post to one of the "alt.binaries..." news groups. Then post an announcement here in alt.tv.xena telling us where to look. The news group alt.binaries.multimedia.xena-herc exists specifically for X:WP and H:TLJ binary posts. However, some ISPs do not carry the newsgroup. It is okay to cross-post to several binary groups, especially if their names are in the alt.* hierarchy, since no alt.* group is guaranteed to be carried by all servers (in fact, NO news group is guaranteed to be carried by all servers). In practice, it's better to cross post than to post to individual groups because cross posting saves space. Posting the same article to many different groups is called "spamming" and is frowned upon. However, do not cross post binary files between binary and non-binary news groups. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why is posting a binary file to a non-binary news group such a problem? ANSWER II.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Some sites have limited resources and carry only a limited selection of binary news groups. If binary files are posted to non-binary news groups, the only ultimate recourse the system administrators have is to stop carrying non-binary news groups with excessive binary file postings. Other reasons include :- That not every person who reads ATX, has unlimited toll-free time to download 50k+ binary posts. Most people outside of the US (for example those in the UK and Europe), are charged for net usage by the second. Some ISP's also automatically block binary posts in non-binary groups, so a lot of readers won't see your picture anyway. There is a much better option available for sharing your Xena pictures: the World Wide Web! Binary news groups have short expiration periods because their articles take up so much disk space. Web pages that you design and own on the other hand, have NO expiration periods. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What if I accidentally post something I don't want to? ANSWER II.7 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Don't panic. Your newsreader should have a CANCEL POST option somewhere. Just RELOAD OLD ARTICLES or CHECK NEW ARTICLES without leaving the news group in your reader. You should see the article come up. Just select the article and then pick CANCEL POST. Your newsreader will send out a cancellation advisory that may prevent your server from sending the article out. Your server will propagate the cancellation advisory if your article has already been sent out, so chances are no one will ever see the article if you cancel it quickly. It should be noted however, that many ISP's no longer honour cancel requests, due to wide scale abuse. CompuServe and AOL users don't presently have the option to cancel their posts. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What are "spoilers" and "spoiler space"? ANSWER II.8 ~~~~~~~~~~~ A "spoiler" is an article posted by someone about an episode they have seen or know about. X:WP is shown world-wide, at different times in the various national and international markets, sometimes upto 18 months after the episode was originally shown in the US. Also, some people with satellite dishes pick up the feed to the affiliates as much as two weeks in advance of the first airdate in the US. Out of consideration and respect, for other Xenites who want to see the episodes before they read about them, those people who have seen them should not put plot points in the subject of their articles. They should add <Spoiler:Episode Name> to the article's subject line, and then fill the first 20 to 25 lines (called "Spoiler Space") of the article with either carriage returns or some message warning inattentive readers that details concerning a potential spoiled episode follow. It's also, not a good idea to remove "spoiler space", if your post still contains "spoilers". These guidelines are not rules, but it is considered good netiquette to follow them. You'll probably get reminded to use 'spoiler space', by other posters if you don't follow these guidelines. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is a "Xenite"? ANSWER II.9 ~~~~~~~~~~~ If you love and watch the show, you are a Xenite. When the fans were debating what to call themselves, "Xenite" had some close competition from "Xenaphile", but Xenite won out. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm a new poster/reader of ATX, Is there anywhere where I can aquaint myself with the conventions of the newsgroup"? ANSWER II.10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a webpage called ATX Central, devoted to most things Alt.tv.xena related. It has links to some posters homepages, Abbreviations and terms used in the group. And there is also a bulletin board. The webpage, (http://www.lavhouse.com/atxcentral_ontheweb), also has a link to the web version of this FAQ. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.11 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is the deal with the "6. There is no number 6"? ANSWER II.11 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ If we're all sitting comfortably then I'll begin: once upon a time the BBC used to broadcast a series called 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' (a comedy) and in one program a short sketch was performed in which an Englishman was introduced to his new professorial colleagues in the Philosophy Department at the 'University of Wollomoloo' in Australia. At one point the departmental rules were read to the group, including "Rule Six: There is NO rule Six!". Since lots of people posting to ATX are either fans of MPFC or are familiar with it, the 'no rule six' rule is often used in lists. Videos of MPFC can be checked out of some public libraries, and rented. Plus, there are the full-length videos: 'MP and the Holy Grail' (there's a CD game based on this too) and 'Life of Brian'. Any websearch utility will find huge numbers of Python sites with scripts, .WAVs, pictures and words of the many songs. The most interesting sites, to me, are in England, Australia and Iceland. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What's this <OT> and <SP> all about? ANSWER II.12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ We like to think that we talk about Xena, all the time. However from time to time various posters to the newsgroup, will post articles that are not entirely to do with Xena. Out of courtesy to those people who do not want to read these types of articles, the subject of the article is usually 'tagged' with <OT> for Off Topic, for Pirate (A role-playing group based in Alt.tv.xena) and <SP> for Space Pirate. and <SP> are not so often used nowadays. But you can still read about their exploits on Deja News (http://www.deja.com) Articles flagged with these 'tags' are likely to have almost anything going on in them. The article's subject should be an indicator of what the article is about, and should be changed if the content varies from the subject. You are still advised to proceed at your peril :D ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.13 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What the heck does BGSB or GGGHD mean? ANSWER II.13 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ As is common with most newsgroups, there are abbreviations for almost everything. Below are some of the more commonly used ones in this newsgroup. Most of these are provided by courtesy of Bluesong (bluesong@aol.com) The ATX.* SPECIFIC ACRONYMS ----------------------------------- notes: lower case may be used too; Quotation marks surround episode titles. Numbers refer to episodes 2:22 means the 22nd episode in the 2nd season. Used in Subject to identify threads originated (or hijacked!) by the crew of the imaginary pirate ship "Dark Warrior," which sometimes sails the waters of ATX <SP> Same as above, only the "ship" is the spaceship "Godiva" AA "Animal Attraction" 5.4 ABMX-H alt.binaries.multimedia.xena-herc (the newsgroup) ACOE, COE "A Comedy of Eros" 2.22 ADITL "A Day in the Life" 2.15 AFA "A Family Affair" 4.3 AGD "A Good Day" 4.5 AITST1 "Adventures In The Sin Trade Pt 1" 4.1 AITST2 "Adventures In The Sin Trade Pt 2" 4.2 AKTTK "A Key To The Kingdom" 4.10 AUS "Amphibolis Under Seige" 5.14 ANE "A Necessary Evil" 2.14 ASC "A Solstice Carol" 2.9 ATOTM "A Tale Of Two Muses" 4.6 ATX alt.tv.xena (the newsgroup) ATX-S alt.tv.xena-subtext (the newsgroup) ATX-SM alt.tv.xena-subtext.misc (the newsgroup) BF "Blind Faith" 2.18 BGSB Bilious Green Sports Bra (Gabrielle's cropped green top in season 2) BITB "Back In The Bottle" 5.7 BTDT "Been There, Done That" 3.2 BTL "Between The Lines" 4.15 COH "Cradle of Hope" 1.4 DI "The Debt (part I)" 3.6 DII "The Debt (part II)" 3.7 DoP "Daughter Of Pomira" 4.11 DVAOA "Deja Vu, All Over Again" 4.22 DW Dark Warrior (imaginary pirate ship on atx) EB "Eternal Bonds" 5.13 FA "Fallen Angel" 5.1 FHTBT "For Him the Bell Tolls" 2.16 FF&G "Fins, Femmes and Gems" 3.18 FMN "Forget Me Not" 3.17 G Gabrielle (other variations: Gab, Gabe, Gabby) GFC "God Fearing Child" 5.12 GGG Great Goddess Gabrielle GGGHD Great Goddess Gabrielle's Honour Defenders (for short: GHD) (a group on atx sworn to defend Gabrielle's honour) GH "Gabrielle's Hope" 3.5 GJWHF "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" 2.4 GK "Giant Killer" 2.3 HBD Hinds Blood Dagger HLAK Hot Lesbian Action Knob HSCMA "Here She Comes...Miss Amphipolis" 2.11 HTLJ Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (also, H:TLJ) IOM "Ides Of March" (also, IoM) 4.21 IS "Intimate Stranger" 2.7 IS&IH "In Sickness & In Hell" 4.4 ITSF "If The Shoe Fits" 4.12 JS Joxer Shields (a group on atx which admires & defends Joxer) KC "King Con" 3.15 LL Lucy Lawless LLHOF "Lyre, Lyre, Hearts On Fire" 5.10 LM "Lost Mariner" 2.21 LP "Little Problem" 5.8 LU&TD "Locked Up & Tied Down" 4.7 MI "Maternal Instincts" 3.11 MBGSB Mini Bilious Green Sports Bra. (Gabrielle's smaller cropped green top in season 3+) MOFE Marvel of Feminine Engineering (Gabrielle's brown outfit season 5) OAAA "One Against An Army" 3.13 OOW "Orphan of War" 2.1 PF "Paradise Found" 4.13 PI "Past Imperfect" 4.9 PL "Punch Lines" 5.11 RN "Remember Nothing" 2.2 ROC, RO Renee O'Connor RoC "Return of Callisto" 2.5 Sac1/Sac2 "Sacrifice (Part 1)" "Part 2" 3.21,22 SoF "Seeds Of Faith" 5.9 SOTP "Sins Of The Past" 1.1 TBTB "Them Bones, Them Bones" 5.5 TBS "The Bitter Suite" 3.12 TD "The Deliverer" 3.4 TDI, TDII "The Debt (part I)" "(part II)" 3.6,7 TDHD "The Dirty Half-Dozen" 3.3 TE "The Execution" 2.17 TF "The Furies" 3.1 TKOA "The King of Assassins" (also, KOA) 3.8 TLW "Ten Little Warlords" (also, 10LW) 2.8 TOTKO "Takes One To Know One" 4.19 TP "The Price" 2.20 TPTT "The Play's The Thing 4.17 TQ "The Quest" 2.13 TQIM "The Quill Is Mightier" 3.10 TW "The Way" 4.16 TXS "The Xena Scrolls" 2.10 U "Ulysses" 2.19 VA "Vanishing Act" 3.20 WIR "When In Rome" 3.16 WPT "Warrior...Princess...Tramp" 2.6 WPT2,WPrT "Warrior...Priestess...Tramp" 3.9 X Xena XWP,X:WP Xena: Warrior Princess (the TV show, not the character) GENERAL ACRONYMS & EMOTICONS ---------------------------- AFAIK As Far As I Know BTW By The Way C/P Cross-Post (post to multiple newsgroups) EP Episode (of a TV show) FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (and answers to same) FWIW For What It's Worth FYI For Your Information HTH Hope This/That Helps IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer IIRC If I Recall Correctly IMHO In My Humble Opinion IMNSO In My Not-So-Humble Opinion IMO In My Opinion IOW In Other Words IRL In Real Life ISP Internet Service Provider J/K Just Kidding LART Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool (a.k.a. baseball bat) LMK Let Me Know LOL Laughing Out Loud LTNS Long Time No See KEWL Cool (as in "fashionable") NG Newsgroup OOC Out Of Character OTOH On The Other Hand POV Point Of View ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing (variation: ROFL) ROTFLMAO " My Ass Off; may also be LAG (Laughing And Groaning) "CRSSARBP " Cracking Ribs, Splitting Sides, And Raising Blood Pressure "SHISTC " So Hard I Scared The Cat (variations: F=ferret, P=poodles) "SHISTEPOC " So Hard I Scared The Entire Population Of California RPG Role-Playing Game SWAG Sealed With A Grin TIC Tongue In Cheek TPTB The Powers That Be (in this context, producers and other bigwigs) TIA Thanks In Advance TIIC The Idiot(s) In charge (or control) TTYL Talk To You (or y'all) Later TV Television URL Uniform Resource Locator (Internet address, eg. www.yahoo.com or www.xenafan.com) XO Executive Officer (2nd in command) :) Smile :-) Smile :-} Crooked Smile ;) Wink (same variants as above) :p "Bronx cheer" a.k.a. "Raspberry" (an impolite sound effect) <g> Grin <eg> Evil Grin <beg> Big Evil Grin <bwg> Big Wide Grin (?) <vbeg> Very Big Evil Grin 8<----- Clip and save (scissors and a dotted line) :: Used to indicate an action, eg. ::sob:: _ Used to indicate they are _underlined_ * Used for emphasis, eg. That's how *I* feel. UPPERCASE Used for emphasis or shouting, eg. NOOO!! It CAN'T be true! Parts (c) Copyright 1998 by Amy W. Thompson, used with permission. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What do "Flaming" and "Flame War" mean? What can I do about it? ANSWER II.14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From time to time, some of the posters to ATX might have a disagreement with what another poster has written, and will post a strongly worded reply, which appears to be attacking that poster personally. This is called "Flaming". When several people are engaged in this practice, it is commonly referred to as a "Flame War". The best thing to do, if a "Flame War" breaks out, is to ignore the posters concerned. You can do this by using your newsreader to set a 'Killfile' or 'Newsgroup Filter' on the posters concerned, or by marking "Flame" threads as read. What you should not do, is reply to a "Flame" post, as this will escalate the problem further out of control. If you *have* to say something to one of the posters, it is far better if you e-mail them personally, to save wasting newsgroup bandwidth. It is not recommended to continue the "Flaming" on ATX or to re-direct the "Flames" to *ANY* other newsgroup. By doing so, you will be encouraging more newsgroup readers to get involved in the "Flaming", which is not what readers of ATX would like to see. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I just read a post I thought was abusive, either towards me or another person. What can I do about it? ANSWER II.15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ You do have a couple of options here. You can attempt to reason with the poster concerned, in the hope of their changing the tone of their posts. You are better off doing this via e-mail. You can also do this via the newsgroup. But if you do, you might be risking a "Flame War" breaking out, or making one in progress worse. Another option is to forward the entire post, complete with it's headers to the abuse department of the posters ISP. You should point out what you feel is abusive about the post, but NOT recommend a course of action. You can be accused of attempting to commit a 'Denial of Service' attack otherwise. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is Net Abuse and where can I learn more about it? ANSWER II.16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Net Abuse refers to any of several generally disapproved practices. The practices include the use of fake addresses (not screen names -- as long as email can reach you, screen names are okay), posting the same article to multiple news groups (this is called "spam"), cross-posting off-topic articles to multiple news groups, posting crude and malicious articles (such as defaming Jesus in a Christian news group, or telling C programmers that BASIC rules -- these are called "trolls"), or posting the same article dozens of times, etc. It is common to see "fake" addresses on articles. As long as the people posting the articles mind their manners otherwise, no one really cares what they call themselves. But using a fake address may be a violation of your ISP's guidelines and service agreement. And if you try to hide behind a faked address in order to flame someone, there are usually people who can track you down from the information contained in the headers of your articles, so you aren't likely to get away with anything. The worst offenders are the trolls, the illegal pyramid schemes, and heavily cross-posted off-topic articles. In some cases you can complain to an offender's ISP and that service provider will send out a cancellation message that kills the thread on all the machines where it's propagated (well, most of them). There is also a group of volunteer system administrators who regularly browse news groups on a random basis and send out cancellation advisories, usually just to remove binary files, but also to get rid of "spam" articles. These folks will post an advisory article telling the appropriate news groups what they are doing and why. Their activities are accepted Usenet practice and they come as close as anyone to being monitors for Usenet traffic. There is a FAQ on net abuse that discusses many aspects of good and bad Usenet behavior. It also outlines accepted responses used in handling abusive articles, and explains why other practices (such as posting follow-up articles) are discouraged. The Net Abuse FAQ is posted regularly to news.admin.net-abuse.misc and to news.answers. The Net Abuse FAQ explains where and how to report net abuse or suspected abuse. The net abuse newsgroup maintains several FAQs. The ATX FAQ is not guaranteed to reflect the current views and information provided in the net abuse FAQs. The reader is therefore advised to retrieve the current Net Abuse FAQs for more current and detailed information about net abuse. A master HTML version of the net abuse FAQ may be useful (http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html). ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION II.17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Is Alt.Tv.Xena moderated or censored in anyway? ANSWER II.17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ATX is an unmoderated forum. This means that if you post to ATX, your post isn't read by someone who can say whether or not it's allowed to be posted. *Anyone* is free to post about whatever they want, (provided what they post isn't a spam, abusive in someway to another person, or a binary post), however the poster, should expect follow-ups from other posters, who might not share their opinion. If you post a 'spam' or binary to ATX, it will most probably be cancelled, and abusive posts will probably be reported. But other than this, no posts are actually cancelled because of their content. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aethelrede <aethelrede@worldnet.att.net> Amita Guha <amita@amarex.com> A. J. Firebaugh <Bluesong@aol.com> Hudson Leick Fan Club (http://www.hudsonleickfan.com) K. Wieczerza -- aka "Kicker" <wieczek@telalink.net> Kevin Smith Official Fan Club (http://www.inetworld.net/zepgirl2/fanclb.htm) Kym Masera Taborn <ktaborn@lightspeed.net> Michael Martinez <michael@xenite.org> Pat Casciano <pcascian@niagara.rivier.edu> Paul Hilling <p.hilling@bigfoot.com> R. Carter <rcarter@indirect.com> Renee O'Connor's Official Web Site (http://rampages.onramp.net/~rocweb/) Ron Murillo <tegan@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Ted Turocy <arbiter@nwu.edu> Tim Smith <tim.smith@omnidssi.com> Ted Raimi International Fan Club (http://www.tedraimifan.com) Whoosh (http://www.whoosh.org) (My thanks goto all of the other contributors not listed) The original FAQ was written by Ted Turocy (arbiter@nwu.edu) and K. Wieczerza -- a.k.a. "Kicker" (wieczek@telalink.net). Kicker maintained the original FAQ on her web site, http://www.telalink.net/~wieczek/Xwpfaq.html, which now says something like: NOTE: This FAQ (by Kicker) has been turned over to the people at WHOOSH! The new URL is http://whoosh.org/faq/index.html. This version of the FAQ has been written and formatted specifically for distribution on the Usenet. Why are these documents is so long? I don't know, except we're quite involved with the show and believe in what we do or some such thing :-) ---------------------------END OF FAQ---------------------------- -- Paul Hilling :- Alt.Tv.Xena FAQ Maintainer Alt.Binaries.Multimedia.Xena-Herc FAQ Maintainer New to ATX? Read the FAQ @ http://www.bigfoot.com/~p.hilling/atx-faq.htm [Paul's Gabby Grotto http://www.bigfoot.com/~p.hilling/xena.htm] No computer components were harmed during the creation of this e-mail, however several billion electrons were abused to ensure its safe delivery.