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- From: estephen@emf.net (E. Stephen Mack)
- Subject: [alt.usenet.manifestoes] Manifesto Mini-FAQ (v1.3)
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- Summary: Frequently asked questions about alt.usenet.manifestoes
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- Archive-name: usenet/manifesto/faq
- Posting-Frequency: monthly (every 16th)
- Last-modified: 1996/12/08
- Version: 1.31
- URL: http://www.emf.net/~estephen/manifesto.html
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- A Manifesto Mini-FAQ (12/16/96)
-
- 11. "What is this group all about?"
-
- The purpose of alt.usenet.manifestoes is to present and discuss
- manifestoes on USENET. Manifestoes can be for individuals,
- organizations, groups, companies, governments, nations or political
- parties. Often they are from individuals, especially those who are
- frequent posters on USENET.
-
-
- 15. "Why?"
-
- Because it is interesting. It can be amusing. It appears to be
- worthwhile. Posterity matters. Some have found it useful. Why
- not?
-
- Manifestoes are an important part of any undertaking. A manifesto
- answers the question, "Why?" Every group, individual, company,
- organization, project or government should have a mission
- statement; without stated goals, success can be elusive.
-
- In the long-run, alt.usenet.manifestoes and its archive can
- serve to be the official repository for the manifestoes of
- a wide range of organizations.
-
- It is sometimes difficult to find a mainstream outlet for the
- presentation of views or goals; alt.usenet.manifestoes is a
- viable outlet.
-
- In the tragic extreme, consider that FC (the Unabomber's
- organization) considered "Industrial Society and Its Future" (the
- Unabomber manifesto) to be so important that a bombing campaign was
- started in order to ensure the manifesto's publication.
-
-
- 19. "What is a manifesto?"
-
- 1. man.i. fes.to \. man-*-' fes-(.)to-\ n
- pl.: manifestos or manifestoes
- [It, denunciation, manifest, fr. manifestare to manifest, fr. L]
- a public declaration of intentions, motives, or views
-
- A manifesto is your mission statement, your purpose: Why you do
- what you do, exactly what it is that you believe and intend to
- accomplish.
-
- Some well-known manifestoes include the Communist Manifesto,
- Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto, and Kibo's HappyNet Manifesto
- (all of which have been posted to alt.usenet.manifestoes in the
- past and are available from the archive).
-
-
- 02. "Where do these manifestoes come from?"
-
- People and organizations write them and make them available,
- sometimes in other newsgroups, WWW pages or FTP archives. They are
- submitted to alt.usenet.manifestoes for approval (see below).
- Sometimes the moderation team stumbles across them and posts them
- (we always try to get permission first).
-
- All are welcome to submit a manifesto for themselves or for an
- organization.
-
-
- 06. "How can I submit a manifesto?"
-
- For most newsreading software, you can just post to
- alt.usenet.manifestoes normally, and your news software will
- forward your article to the proper place for approval.
-
- If that method doesn't work, simply send the manifesto by e-mail to
- manifesto@emf.net instead.
-
- If you wish for a manifesto to be presented anonymously, please
- indicate by including the line:
- [Moderator: Please post this anonymously.]
- Alternately, you may send mail to manifesto-request@emf.net
- indicating that you wish to submit anonymously BEFORE you submit
- the manifesto.
-
- You should receive a reply to indicate that your manifesto was
- received. You'll be notified of its approval, usually within 48
- hours. Currently the moderation is not automated, so please be
- patient before resubmitting your articles; all submissions will
- receive a reply eventually.
-
- Please indicate as much as possible about the authorship of the
- manifesto (who wrote it, when, where it may be available [including
- URL if applicable], how authorative the manifesto is or if it is an
- organization's official manifesto) and its copyright status.
-
- If you are writing a new manifesto, please consider including a
- statement declaring that the manifesto is in the public domain
- or, if copyrighted, that it may be freely distributed without
- alteration.
-
-
- 10. "What gets approved?"
-
- Everything that is on charter, not 100% commercial, not
- cross-posted, and not full of obscure acronyms. Discussion of
- previous manifestoes is welcome. The newsgroup is not limited to
- serious manifestoes. Anonymous contributions are also welcome.
-
- We do wish to encourage discussion, so please feel free to comment
- on any manifestoes, including those in the archive.
-
-
- 14. "Why is this newsgroup moderated?"
-
- To keep it on charter. To keep the posts coming regularly. The
- intention is to keep a.u.m. high-interest, low-traffic and
- high-quality.
-
- One advantage of moderation: alt.usenet.manifestoes is the only
- alt newsgroup GUARANTEED to be immune to spam (for example, make
- money fast advertisements posted to many non-relevant newsgroups).
-
-
- 18. "Does the moderator edit the manifestoes?"
-
- He is often very tempted.
-
-
- 01. "But you don't edit them really, right?"
-
- No, manifestoes are not edited.
-
- Okay, that's not true; the moderator has in the past reformatted
- e-text, such as the Communist Manifesto, to fit within 70 columns.
- No contributed manifestoes are altered.
-
-
- 05. "Do you write the manifestoes yourself?"
-
- The moderation team, including the author of this faq, does not
- write the manifestoes that appear. Look at the "From:" line or the
- signature to find out who the author is. If a manifesto is
- anonymous, it will be marked as such.
-
-
- 09. "So why does your name appear on each post?"
-
- Because I'm the moderator, my name automatically appears under the
- "Originator:" and "Approved:" header lines. But that doesn't mean
- that I have anything to do with the manifesto. In fact, I disclaim
- all opinions expressed by the authors of the manifestoes.
-
-
- 13. "Do you turn down manifestoes that you don't agree with?"
-
- Even though I personally do not agree with the politics or opinions
- expressed in many of the manifestoes, I do not turn away any
- manifesto that meets the charter, no matter how offensive, puerile,
- self-serving, indecent, unintelligible, racist or idiotic the
- manifesto may be. Nor do I take credit for the reasonable,
- intelligent, interesting and insightful manifestoes. I am simply
- the manager of a forum -- a common carrier.
-
- I have, however, rejected many duplicate postings, MAKE.MONEY.FAST
- articles, and advertisements for phone sex numbers and web sites,
- since they are off-charter.
-
-
- 17. "Isn't that censorship?"
-
- No more than any moderation is censorship. All newspaper and
- magazine editors practice one form of censorship: they reject
- inappropriate articles. Since the only thing this newsgroup is
- about is manifestoes, the only things that appear here are
- manifestoes.
-
- I abhor censorship of ideas, yet my duty [cue stirring music] as
- moderator is to eliminate off-topic postings. If an article is
- rejected, it is because it is off-charter (perhaps because it is
- commercial).
-
- Even so, rejectees may still have a voice by posting to one of the
- other 34,000 newsgroups on USENET. I wish them luck with their
- illegal pyramid schemes or whatever.
-
- I would welcome the publication of a MAKE.MONEY.FAST manifesto.
-
-
- 21. "Is there an archive?"
-
- Yes -- if you have access to the World Wide Web, point your browser
- to
- http://www.emf.net/~estephen/manifesto.html
- and enjoy.
-
- There is currently no ftp archive, but please let me know if you
- want one. With sufficient demand, I can mirror the WWW archive at
- emf's FTP site. Only two people have asked for an FTP archive.
-
-
- 04. "What articles have appeared so far?"
-
- Here's a list:
-
- Article 1: (05/16/95) Welcome to Alt Usenet Manifestoes
- Article 2: (05/17/95) The Origin Story
- Article 3: (05/19/95) Kibo's HappyNet Manifesto
- Article 4: (05/31/95) The Manifesto of David Guntner
- Article 5: (05/31/95) [Manifesto of Ellis L. Keyes] Life is a Party
- Article 6: (05/31/95) Electronic Rights & Responsibilities V0.13
- Article 7: (05/31/95) cyberfeminist manifesto
- Article 8: (05/31/95) the PERKYGOTH manifesto
- Article 9: (05/31/95) Manifesto of Negativity
- Article 10: (06/02/95) self-explanatory - rone
- Article 12: (06/06/95) The LAMA M A N I F E S T O
- Article 13: (06/06/95) A word from the moderator
- Article 14: (06/06/95) Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Article 15: (06/06/95) The PC Manifesto
- Article 16: (06/07/95) The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto - Timothy May
- Article 17: (06/07/95) Carbonist Manifesto
- Article 18: does not exist.
- Article 19: (06/09/95) The BOB(c)MANIFESTO
- Article 20: (06/09/95) A Psychopunk's Manifesto - T.C.Hughes
- Article 21: (06/13/95) NZMRA Manifesto - Peter Zohrab
- Article 22: (06/13/95) The Cancer of $cientology - henry
- Article 23: (06/14/95) The GNU Manifesto - Richard Stallman
- Article 24: (06/14/95) TRAV: The FAQ
- Article 25: (06/15/95) A Manifesto for Cyberspace
- Article 26: (06/16/95) Tele-Manifesto du jour
- Article 27: (06/21/95) Re: Tele-Manifesto du jour
- Article 28: (06/21/95) The ParaMetaExistentialist Manifesto
- Article 29: (06/26/95) --GAIA: THE QUIET REVOLUTION--
- Article 30: (06/27/95) Re: The ParaMetaExistentialist Manifesto
- Article 31: (06/28/95) Manifesto of Sexual Freedom
- Article 32: (06/28/95) Commentary on the Manifesto of Sexual Freedom
- Article 33: (06/28/95) the cyber-existentialist manifesto
- Article 34: (06/29/95) Re: the cyber-existentialist manifesto
- Article 35: (06/30/95) Party (Ellis L. Keyes)
- Article 36: (07/02/95) Panarchy: everyone voting on everything
- Article 37: (07/05/95) The Neo-Nihilist Manifesto
- Article 38: (07/05/95) The Cafe BOB(c) Manifesto
- Article 40: (07/06/95) Virtual Surrealist Manifesto
- Article 41: (07/12/95) Patarealist Manifesto
- Article 42: (07/14/95) Re: The Patarealist Manifesto (Tom Breton)
- Article 43: (07/17/95) Re: The Patarealist Manifesto (The BOB(c))
- Article 44: (07/18/95) Re: The Patarealist Manifesto (Wandering)
- Article 45: (07/18/95) CTTS and You
- Article 46: (07/18/95) Re: The Patarealist Manifesto (D Donahue)
- Article 47: (07/18/95) Re: The Patarealist Manifesto (D Donahue)
- Article 48: (07/20/95) The TSOTIC Manifesto
- Article 49: (07/21/95) THE IMPERIAL MANIFESTO OF USENET
- Article 50: (07/25/95) We at Obscure Research Labs
- Article 51: (07/25/95) THE INFERIOR MANIFESTO OF USENET
- Article 52: (07/25/95) Manifesto of the Elitism Mailing List
- Article 53: (07/28/95) unix makes my hack writing work harder
- Article 54: (08/03/95) Enterzone Statement of Purpose
- Article 55: (08/03/95) The First Manifesto of Virtuism
- Article 56: (08/04/95) Excerpts From UNABOM's Manifesto
- Article 57: (08/04/95) Professor Tyler's Letter To Unabomber
- Article 58: (08/05/95) Text of Unabomber Manifesto (excerpts)
- Article 59: (08/05/95) Unabomber and the New Left
- Article 60: (08/10/95) A More Complete Version of the UNABOMBER Manifesto
- Article 61: (08/16/95) The Tutorial Manifesto
- Article 63: (08/19/95) GLF: The Final Solution
- Article 64: (08/23/95) something like a manifesto (Beverley R. White)
- Article 65: (08/23/95) To Post (Ellis L. Keyes)
- Article 66: (08/24/95) FATHERS MANIFESTO
- Article 67: (08/24/95) Avant-Pop Interactive
- Article 70: (08/26/95) Re: The GLF: The Final Solution
- Article 71: (08/26/95) Re: FATHERS MANIFESTO
- Article 72: (08/29/95) The Post-Human Manifesto
- Article 73: (08/31/95) Manifesto (Ellis L. Keyes)
- Article 74: (09/08/95) FATHERS' MANIFESTO
- Article 75: (09/13/95) FATHERS' MANIFESTO - A rewrite
- Article 77: (09/20/95) Jack Graham's Hyperfiction Manifesto
- Article 78: (09/20/95) The McDonalds Manifesto
- Article 80: (09/20/95) Complete Text of the Unabomber Manifesto
- [corrected]
- Article 81: (09/20/95) Manifesto of the Futurist Programmers
- Article 82: (09/20/95) Concertgoers' Manifesto
- Article 83: (10/04/95) FC's manifesto: sloppy versions circulating
- Article 84: (10/04/95) FC: Differences between a.u.m. and CoE version
- Article 85: (10/04/95) National Socialism Primer
- Article 86: (10/04/95) Universal Equality Primer
- Article 87: (10/04/95) Re: National Socialism Primer
- Article 88: (10/04/95) The Manifesto Of Nothing In Particular
- Article 90: (10/30/95) Revolution #9
- Article 91: (11/01/95) Tax The Rich
- Article 92: (11/06/95) THE ALT.MEGA-EGO.YONDERBOY MANIFESTO! GRRRRRRR!
- 1.0.0.0.0.0.A!
- Article 93: (11/02/95) Anti-Unabomber Manifesto
- Article 94: (11/15/95) THE GUARAPO REVOLUTION (MANIFESTO)
- Article 96: (11/17/95) Church of the Subgenius "manifesto"
- Article 97: (11/28/95) Industrial Workers of the World: Preamble to
- Constitution
- Article 98: (11/29/95) The Wild Ranch Manifesto
- Article 101: (02/02/96) THE ADRIATIC LINE
- Article 102: (02/19/96) Freeman's Manifesto
- Article 103: (02/22/96) HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION!! (Father's Rights)
- Article 104: (02/28/96) Man's Subliminal God
- Article 106: (02/29/96) The CDA - A Declaration of the Independence of
- Cyberspace
- Article 107: (03/07/96) Manifesto of the Front de LibΘration du QuΘbec
- (1970)
- Article 108: (03/07/96) Anarchy: Now and Forever!
- Article 109: (03/12/96) Egoist Manifesto #1
- Article 110: (05/23/96) Scum Manifesto
- Article 111: (05/23/96) What I Want From Usenet (Jaffo)
- Article 112: (08/14/96) Story Weavers' Manifesto
- Article 114: (08/23/96) Mana manifesto
- Article 115: (09/05/96) American Nihilist Underground Society Maniphisto
- Article 116: (12/08/96) LEGALIZE CRACK MANIFESTO
- Article 117: (12/08/96) QED manifesto
- Article 118: (12/08/96) The alt.life.itself FAQ
- Article 119: (12/08/96) charge.html
-
- Missing article numbers represent canceled, erroneous or
- superseded postings, or postings of the mini-faq.
-
- To see one of the above articles, turn the article number into
- a five digit number by prepending zeroes (i.e., Article 17 becomes
- 00017) and then plug it into the following address, replacing XXXXX:
- http://www.emf.net/~estephen/manifesto/aumXXXXX.html
-
- For example, Article 88 becomes:
- http://www.emf.net/~estephen/manifesto/aum00088.html
-
-
- 08. "Can I subscribe by e-mail?"
-
- No. Sorry. Just read it as a newsgroup, or stop by the
- Manifesto Archive Home Page.
-
- There may be a Usenet-to-mail gateway at your site which can
- automatically send you all new articles from alt.usenet.manifestoes
- as they appear. Please ask your local support people.
-
- You MAY request any of the above articles be hand-mailed to you
- by sending email to moderator-request@emf.net. Please do not
- abuse this resource, as I do not have a lot of free time.
-
-
- 12. "How come propagation is so low?"
-
- Almost every alt group has bad propagation. This one is no
- exception.
-
- But it's getting better. For the first month (April, 1995), it was
- so bad that I didn't even receive the newsgroup at my own site.
- Thanks to diligent newgrouping (from David Guntner, Andrew Stephen
- Damick, Partha S. Banerjee, and Alistair James Robert Young), it's
- now carried at most major sites, including Netcom, uunet, Prodigy
- and AOL. If you can't receive it at your site, please ask your
- news administrator.
-
- If your news administrator cannot carry alt.usenet.manifestoes,
- you'll have to use an alternate NNTP server or use the archive
- instead.
-
-
- 16. "Why is the plural of manifesto 'manifestoes' and not 'manifestos'?
- Why is the name of this newsgroup plural, anyway?"
-
- Dictionaries in the U.S. say either is acceptable. The moderator
- happens to prefer 'manifestoes.' [Long story about why deleted.]
-
- In the debate on alt.config (the place where new alt groups are
- discussed), Melissa Anne Algeo recommended that the name be plural
- so that people don't think the purpose of this newsgroup is to come
- up with some unifying manifesto for all of USENET (which although a
- worthwhile project, is not the sole goal of this newsgroup).
-
-
- 20. "Who is on the moderation team?
-
- Many people have pointed me to existing manifestoes for
- publication. I'd like to specially thank Thomas Dell
- (dell@goonsquad.spies.com), John Restrick, the Stanford NetNews
- Service (SIFT), tribe, the authors of "grep," and everyone who has
- contributed so far.
-
- You may join the moderation team: Send me any manifesto you
- are aware of that has not been published, and I will be sure
- to give you credit (if you desire). Please obey any copyright
- laws by not contributing copyrighted work.
-
-
- 03. "Who is the moderator?"
-
- No one important. I've been reading news for a long, long time and
- try to contribute in my own little way. My only hope is that you
- find this newsgroup an interesting place. As Andy Damick points
- out, wanting to moderate is simply one of the signs that you are
- hopelessly, irreversably addicted to USENET.
-
-
- 07. "What e-mail addresses are relevant?"
-
- Contributions: manifesto@emf.net
- Requests: manifesto-request@emf.net
- Human Being: estephen@emf.net
-
- __________________________________________________________________________
- -- Zeigen (E. Stephen Mack) estephen@emf.net
- Zeigen's Dilemma: http://www.emf.net/~estephen/
-