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- Archive-name: sf/groups-intro
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- Changes this version:
- Updated the lysator URL by request of the maintainer to sf.www.lysator
- instead of www.lysator.
- Added the alt.fan.heinlein group.
- Added the rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan group and charter.
- Added the alt.books.phil-k-dick group.
- Changed the update/comment address! Note this well!
-
-
- Send questions and updates or comments to: felan@netcom.com.
-
- 1. What does the 'sf' in 'rec.arts.sf.*' mean?
- 2. What rec.arts.sf.* groups are available?
- 3. What other 'sf' groups are available?
- 4. What mailing lists are there for similar topics?
- 5. What other resources are available on the net (WWW, gopher, etc)?
- 6. What are the current charters for the groups under rec.arts.sf.*?
-
- 1. What does the 'sf' in 'rec.arts.sf.*' mean?
- The 'sf' means 'Speculative Fiction'. According to the call for votes
- that created the original hierarchy, this was defined as: Both science
- fiction and fantasy, as well as that vast blurred mass of material in
- between.
-
- 2. What rec.arts.sf.* groups are available?
-
- Here's a short, one-line-per-group listing of the groups:
-
- rec.arts.sf.misc Replaces rec.arts.sf-lovers as the catch-all
- rec.arts.sf.announce Announcements (moderated: zorch@uunet.uu.net)
- rec.arts.sf.fandom Fannish activities, cons, etc.
- rec.arts.sf.marketplace Personal for-sale notices
- rec.arts.sf.movies SF movies that don't have their own groups
- rec.arts.sf.reviews Reviews of sf/fantasy/horror works (Moderated)
- rec.arts.sf.science Science and theory related to sf
- rec.arts.sf.starwars Star wars, books, movies, etc
- rec.arts.sf.tv SF tv shows that don't have their own groups
- rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 Babylon 5 creators meet Babylon 5 fans.
- rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap Quantum Leap TV, comics, cons, etc.
- rec.arts.sf.written Novels, stories, etc.
- rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Books by Robert Jordan
-
- 3. What other 'sf' groups are available?
- rec.arts.books.tolkien
- rec.arts.drwho
- Discussions about the movies, the show, and anything and everything
- related to Dr. Who.
- rec.arts.startrek.info.
- A distillation of news and information about Star Trek, including
- synopses of new episodes, convention reports, station airing times
- around the US and the world, and other tidbits of factual information
- about Trek.
-
- Moderated: send submissions to trek-info@dweeb.fx.com; questions or
- comments should be sent to trek-info-request@dweeb.fx.com.
- rec.arts.startrek.current
- rec.arts.startrek.fandom
- rec.arts.startrek.misc
- rec.arts.startrek.tech
- Star Trek, all shows, movies, books, etc, related to the original
- show. There's a monthly informational posting in those groups and
- news.answers and rec.answers which describes the groups in detail.
- alt.books.isaac-asimov
- alt.books.deryni
- alt.books.m-lackey
- alt.books.phil-k-dick
- alt.cyberpunk
- alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo
- Virtual reality via prose interaction.
- alt.fan.douglas-adams
- alt.fan.eddings
- alt.fan.heinlein
- alt.fan.pern
- McCaffrey's Pern; also some discussions of her other books.
- alt.fan.piers-anthony
- alt.fan.pratchett
- alt.fan.tolkien
- alt.fandom.cons
- alt.fandom.misc
- alt.galactic-guide
- An attempt to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, inspired by
- Douglas Adams. Ongoing for several years.
- alt.music.filk
- alt.tv.red-dwarf
-
- 4. What mailing lists are there for similar topics?
-
- Good question; I don't know, for the most part. But I'll be adding them
- as people tell me about them, and I believe there's a posting that lists
- them, that I'll try to get permission to use.
-
- SF-LOVERS@gandalf.rutgers.edu
- Moderated, medium-to-high traffice. I believe this is the one that is
- gatewayed from the newsgroups (although I'm not entirely sure how it's
- done these days; originally it was gateway to and from r.a.sf-lovers).
-
- smofs@gandalf.rutgers.edu
- SMOFS deals with convention-running. A low-traffic list.
-
- send mail to sf-lovers-request@gandalf.rutgers.edu to get on either
- SMOFS or sf-lovers.
-
- 5. What other resources are available on the net (WWW, gopher, etc)?
-
- Please feel free to send me any URLs you might have, and a description of
- what's available at that URL.
-
- The SF archive at Lysator:
-
- WWW: http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf_main.html
- gopher: gopher.lysator.liu.se
- ftp: ftp.lysator.liu.se, /pub/sf-texts
-
- 6. What are the current charters for the groups under rec.arts.sf.*?
-
- Here's a list, in the same order as the groups appear in the list in question
- 2. I use the word 'current' because, while most of these haven't changed
- since the dawn of creation, the rec.arts.sf.reviews one has changed to
- include a new submission address.
-
- rec.arts.sf.misc
- Charter: Group rec.arts.sf.misc will be the general-purpose
- and spillover group for science fiction and fantasy
- discussions that do not find a more specific subgroup
- under rec.arts.sf.*, or that would otherwise require
- wide crossposting among the other subgroups.
-
- rec.arts.sf.announce (moderated, <sf-announce-request@uunet.uu.net>)
- Charter: (moderated) Announcements of happenings in the
- SF world, such as cons, including calls for con
- participation, readings, deaths, honors, new SF
- mailing lists, periodic postings of rec.arts.sf
- subgroup charters and other administrivia,
- signings, TV specials, meetings, shop openings and
- closings, etc. Not for personal or commercial ads.
- Send submissions to: sf-announce@uunet.uu.net; questions to
- the moderator address above.
-
- rec.arts.sf.fandom
- Charter: Discussions of fannish activities; meant to provide
- a new home for the SF-related part of the traffic
- currently posted to alt.fandom.* and similar
- postings current in rec.arts.sf-lovers.
-
- rec.arts.sf.marketplace
- Charter: A place for personal wanted-to-buy and for-sale ads
- for SF related materials. Personal ads only;
- commercial ads belong in comp.newprod or commercial
- advertising channels, not elsewhere on USENet. Do
- NOT crosspost ads; those looking to buy or sell SF
- stuff will be reading this group and just annoyed
- by ads mixed in elsewhere.
-
- rec.arts.sf.movies
- Charter: Discussions of all aspects of SF related movies not
- otherwise covered in more specific groups (such as
- the Star Trek group). Specifically includes
- screenplays looking for producers, and discussions
- of novelizations as compared to the movie base;
- discussion of novelizations independent of the
- related movie belong in .written.
-
- rec.arts.sf.reviews (moderated)
- Charter: Reviews and critical discussion of SF/fantasy/horror
- works. Works include novels, short fiction, movies,
- music, periodicals, art, etc., that are of interest to
- the SF community. Reviews are expected to conform to
- the guidelines in the FAQ "Welcome to rec.arts.sf.reviews"
- posted to the group periodically and available by
- anonymous FTP on the host net.bio.net [134.172.2.69]
- (file: sf-reviews/welcome). Archives of the group are also
- available on net.bio.net in the directory misc/sf-reviews.
- Submissions should be sent to sf-reviews@presto.ig.com;
- comments to the moderators should be sent to
- rasfr-comments@presto.ig.com.
-
- rec.arts.sf.science
- Charter: A home for the spinoff discussion of real and
- speculative science and sometimes about how the
- laws of science could be used in creating new SF
- universes.
-
- rec.arts.sf.tv
- Charter: A group for discussing general television SF, both
- live acted and cartoons. Note that some tv shows,
- (such as Dr. Who and Star Trek) have their own
- specialized newsgroups as well.
-
- rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
- Charter: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 is to be an unmoderated newgroup
- dedicated to the following topics:
-
- * The plots and characters of "Babylon 5" episodes.
- * The possible ties between episodes in the 5-year story arc
- * The special-effects techniques and technology
- * Musings and speculations about where the show is going.
- * AND NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT story ideas and/or fan-fiction.
-
- J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5's creator, (hereafter: JMS)
- has stated flatly that for legal reasons that if any story
- ideas appear on a "B5" newsgroup he will be forced to leave the
- electronic forum. This would be, to our reckoning, a
- net.tragedy, and is to be avoided at all costs.
-
- Solutions such as forfeiture of copyrights to JMS with all
- postings, etc, have been considered, but ultimately rejected.
- This forum can only survive through the good will of its users,
- PLEASE do not destroy it for the rest of us.
-
- In the event of legal action in the future resulting from
- someone's disregard of this rule, I offer myself, Brian Badger,
- to be subpoenaed to testify as to the nature of this charter,
- and its prohibition. It's an ugly job...
-
- rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap
- Charter: rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap will be designed to create a specific
- forum for discussing the many aspects of the Quantum Leap
- television series, which is now in syndication on two cable
- networks. The aspects that can be talked about are (but are
- not limited to) the television program, the comic book, QL
- conventions, the video releases, and whatever else can be found
- to talk about between the "Leapers." Now, the group will be
- unmoderated to allow more freedom on what can be talked about.
- There has, as of late, been a considerable amount of QL traffic on
- rec.arts.sf.tv. Perhaps the new newsgroup would allow more
- space for other discussion on rec.arts.sf.tv, and
- rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap would be an exclusive place for
- Leapers to talk. Also, many Usenet sites do not have Alt.ql
- creative as a group choice and, therefore, do not know of the
- existance of QL discussion.
-
-
- rec.arts.sf.written
- Charter: A group for discussing the general SF which is seen
- by its audience in written form, whether printed or
- online. Note that many more specific groups in
- rec.arts.sf.* exist to pull some traffic from this
- group, but in general, this is where new releases
- are discussed, informal reviews given, continuity
- topics discussed, authors compared, and is the
- starting point for many threads which should
- eventually be moved to more appropriate groups.
- (Please cooperate when the call is put forward to
- move a discussion to a more specific group.)
-
-
- rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
- Charter: This newsgroup, rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan, was
- created in July 1994 for the discussion of books written
- by contemporary author Robert Jordan. In particular, this
- newsgroup is concerned with his ongoing "Wheel of Time"
- series, but also covers past and future works by him.
- Fandom is specifically included within the purview of this
- charter. The group is unmoderated.
-
-
- Leanne Phillips
- "Do not meddle with the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick
- to anger." (I don't want to hear other versions. I've heard them all before.)
- Words to live by: "Violence is the refuge of the incompetent."
- (Yes, I know it isn't right; it's deliberate.)
-
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