| Section 1. |
About the Newsgroup, and posting guidelines. |
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| Q1.1 |
What is the purpose of this newsgroup? |
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| A1.1 |
It is a forum for discussion of the ITC television series, "The
Prisoner", its characters, stories, cast, crew, writers and themes
contained
therein.
It is also for discussing Prisoner Fandom, such as conventions, club and
group meetings, fanzines etc. Basically, anything relating to the Prisoner.
Fan fiction, poetry, prose, filks or other creative writing are welcome,
but
please read Section 1, Question 5. |
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| Q1.2 |
What format should I make my post in? |
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| A1.2 |
Plain text only please. No HTML, Rich Text or web pages.
Please set your newsreader to "Text only".
No binary attachments should be posted here.
unsolicited commercial postings (aka "Spam") are *not* welcome,
and will be
traced to source and reported. |
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| Q1.3 |
How should I structure my post? |
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| A1.3 |
Make your posting as clear and unambiguous as possible.
Use correct punctuation and sentence structure to avoid misinterpretation.
Use a descriptive heading, for instance, "The Prisoner movie news".
Please don't use the heading as part of your message.
If your post is not related to The Prisoner, but relevant to the newsgroup,
please add "OT" or "Off-Topic" to the heading.
Finally, if you post in a newsgroup, expect a reply in a newsgroup, rather
than by e-mail. This benefits everyone. If a reply is incorrect, it can
be
corrected by another poster. |
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| Q1.4 |
How should I reply to a post? |
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| A1.4 |
It is standard Usenet practice to reply below (i.e. after) the original
post. If you post above (i.e. before) the message you are replying to, the
thread can become a confusing mess.
Delete any parts of the previous post which are not relevant. This is called
"snipping". If you feel the need, you can summarise the deleted
material
with a <snip> tag. For instance, if I snip some comments about Rover
to
which I am not responding, I may insert <snip Rover>.
For more on this subject, please see
http://web.archive.org/web/20010610004838/http://fmf.fwn.rug.nl/~anton/toppo
sting.html |
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| Q1.5 |
Can I post sexually explicit "adult" fiction here? |
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| A1.5 |
Please don't. This is a publicly accessible and archived newsgroup.
Whilst most of us are adults, there is no way of knowing the age of
readers or their sensibilities. There are other places for adult
material. See the Resource Guide at the end of this document. |
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| Q1.6 |
What else do I need to know? |
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| A1.6 |
a) Please do not post unsolicited commercial postings (aka "spam")
here.
It will be traced to source and reported to your ISP.
b) Deliberately offensive, abusive, or threatening posts will be treated
the
same way as Spam (see above). This is a friendly newsgroup, and we'd like
it
to stay that way.
c) Please don't post in ALL CAPS LIKE THIS, unless you intend to
SHOUT.
For a comprehensive guide to Usenet Netiquette, please read RFC 1855,
at http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3 |
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