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Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!news.amherst.edu!not-for-mail
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From: erotica@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.erotica,alt.sex,alt.sex.stories.d,rec.arts.prose,rec.answers,alt.answers,news.answers
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Subject: ADMIN: rec.arts.erotica introduction
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Supersedes: <erotica_765709204@unix.amherst.edu>
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Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d
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Date: 7 May 1994 05:00:06 -0400
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Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA, USA
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Lines: 331
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Approved: erotica@unix.amherst.edu, news-answers-request@mit.edu
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Expires: 20 Jun 1994 09:00:03 GMT
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Message-ID: <erotica_768301203@unix.amherst.edu>
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Reply-To: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
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NNTP-Posting-Host: amhux3.amherst.edu
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Summary: rec.arts.erotica Frequently Asked Questions and submission guidelines
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Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu rec.arts.erotica:842 alt.sex:64872 alt.sex.stories.d:4138 rec.arts.prose:1736 rec.answers:5321 alt.answers:2730 news.answers:19238
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Archive-name: erotica-faq
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Frequency: monthly
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Last-modified: 15 Apr 1994
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- [NOTE: I have reformatted the FAQ into a minimal digest format
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- suggested by Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca). I hope that
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- for readers who do not undigestify FAQs this will be a low-impact
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- change, while making the FAQ more useful for newsreaders which support
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- RFC1153-compliant digests. To reduce confusion, the contents of the
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- FAQ have not changed, apart from the copyright notice below, since
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- its last posting in April. Please send any feedback on the format
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- or content of the FAQ to twpierce@unix.amherst.edu.]
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INTRODUCTION TO REC.ARTS.EROTICA AND FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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[ Last changed: April 15, 1994 ]
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Tim Pierce (twpierce@unix.amherst.edu)
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Originally by: Evan Leibovich (evan@telly.on.ca)
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+ Copyright 1994 by Tim Pierce. Permission is granted to copy and
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+ redistribute this document provided that it remains complete and
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+ unmodified.
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+
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+ For the most up-to-date copy of this FAQ, send mail to
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+ erotica@unix.amherst.edu with the subject "FAQ".
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New material is indicated by a "+" at the beginning of a line; revised
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material, by a "!". Material that will be deleted with the next FAQ
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is marked with a "-" at the beginning of a line.
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Subject: 1. Table of Contents
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1. Table of Contents
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2. Welcome to rec.arts.erotica!
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3. What will happen if I post to rec.arts.erotica?
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4. What kind of submission is unacceptable?
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5. How about "taboo" subject matter?
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6. What should I include in my submission?
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7. Do you ever edit or modify submissions before approving them?
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8. What if my submission is rejected?
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9. Can I post anonymously?
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10. Can you please cancel my last post?
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11. Is there a publicly-accessible site which archives this group?
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12. Can I get rec.arts.erotica via e-mail?
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13. Where can I get sexy GIFs?
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14. Where is Amherst?
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(If you are using a pager that understands regular expressions, you
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may skip directly to a particular question -- for example, question 9
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-- by searching for the expression /^Subject: 9\./ Digest-aware
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newsreaders may have special commands to facilitate paging through
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this FAQ.)
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Subject: 2. Welcome to rec.arts.erotica!
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This news group is intended to be a low-volume, noise-free environment
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in which to find erotic literature, and pointers of where to find
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other erotic materials. It is here for the enjoyment of the Usenet
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community and no other reason.
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Original submissions, and works either released into the public
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domain, or copyrighted but without restriction of distribution, are
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welcome.
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There aren't many rules here, but there are some. I don't think
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they're too outlandish, and I'm always open to change if some policy
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is too restrictive. But your reasons had better be good...
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If you have suggestions or problems regarding the answers that follow,
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please write me. Posting to the newsgroup should also work, because
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most news systems automatically mail posts to moderated groups (such
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as rec.arts.erotica) to the moderator's mailbox.
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Do not post or mail requests for stories of names of archive sites.
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Such requests will go ignored.
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Subject: 3. What will happen if I post to rec.arts.erotica?
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For information on cancelling articles that have already been posted,
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please see question 8.
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First, your post will be sent to me automatically via e-mail, so that
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I can review it. Therefore, don't expect your post to show up within
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a few minutes after being composed. It'll have to wait until the next
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time I log on and have time to review new submissions. If traffic is
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high, this might be more than a few days (and has taken two weeks or
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more in the past).
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Next, I check it over for acceptability (see below). If your
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submission meets all of the guidelines required of rec.arts.erotica
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postings, I will "approve" it and have it posted to the newsgroup. I
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will also save your post in my archives of rec.arts.erotica. Please
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note that by submitting to this newsgroup, you are implicitly granting
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permission for your work to be archived here and at any other archive
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of rec.arts.erotica that someone might be maintaining.
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Before approving a submission, however, I will add a Keywords header
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line to your submission containing a list of the topics explored
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therein. The reason for this is to permit people who are either
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strongly interested or strongly disinterested in particular topics to
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determine quickly whether they will find your post interesting.
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The following keywords are used to describe a post's content:
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admin: administrative announcements, indexes of stories, etc.
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animal: bestiality and animals
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annc: announcements other than administrative: freeware, etc.
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bond: bondage (physical restraint)
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dom: domination (primarily psychological)
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ff: female-female contact
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furry: sentient non-human characters (e.g. "Journal Entries")
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gothic: vampires and other Gothic subjects (e.g. "Night Music")
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group: group sex and threesomes
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heavy: "heavy" forms of bdsm
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humor: joke posts or amusing stories (e.g. "Barbeque of Doom")
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incest: incestuous relationships
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mf: male-female contact
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mild: "mild" forms of bdsm
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mm: male-male contact
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nc: non-consensual situations
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pedo: pedophilia (pre-pubescent) (e.g. "Misty")
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poem: poetry
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rape: rape scenes and other violent non-consensual sexuality
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scat: scatology and coprophilia
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series: long stories split into sections (e.g. "Marie")
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sf: speculative fiction: sci-fi, heavy fantasy, and the like
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sm: sadism and masochism
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teen: consensual sex involving teenagers and postpubescents
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trans: transsexuality, crossdressing and transgender topics
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water: watersports and urophilia
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Before posting an article to rec.arts.erotica, I also add a header
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line entitled "X-Moderator-Review." This line contains a numeric
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rating which may fall between 1 and 10, and a one-line summary of my
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opinion of the post. This entire header is purely subjective, and may
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freely be ignored if you do not find it useful.
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Subject: 4. What kind of submission is unacceptable?
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NOTE:
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* Adherence to the following guidelines is completely *
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* the responsibility of you, the poster, regardless of *
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* the story's original source. I neither edit *
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* submissions nor have the time to perform a *
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* complete authenticity check on every submission. *
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* I will reject flagrant violations of these rules *
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* if I notice them, but I disclaim having any such *
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* obligation. *
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* Material that isn't sexually oriented. This isn't a place for
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detective stories or politics. Note, however, that "sexually
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oriented" is a relatively subjective term; Anais Nin, for
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example, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of erotica of
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our time, wrote a good deal of highly erotic material that is
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also completely sexless.
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* Copyrighted work that isn't publicly distributable. Work that is
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copyrighted, but explicitly permits electronic redistribution, is
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acceptable.
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* Anything submitted from a temporary, guest, or numbered account,
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unless there's a name attached to it. Other accounts such as
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"news," "root," or accounts belonging to organizations are
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considered "guest" accounts for these purposes.
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* Non-textual material such as binary-encoded graphics.
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* Something that's already appeared on this newsgroup.
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* Material which exhibits an exceptionally poor grasp of written
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English. A single proofreading with a spellchecker and a copy of
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Strunk and White should fix most such rejections.
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Subject: 5. How about "taboo" subject matter?
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Most sexually-oriented material is acceptable here. That includes
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heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality,
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bestiality, BDSM, fetishism, and so on. The sky's pretty much the
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limit.
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Subject: 6. What should i include in my submission?
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Approved postings now carry an "Archive-name:" header, which is
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parsable by "rkive" and other archive-maintenance software.
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Because of this, it would make my life slightly easier if you include
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*both*:
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* a descriptive Subject line. Note that "story" and
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"submission" are not what I consider to be descriptive.
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* a suggestion for a one-word archive name. The archive name
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should be no longer than 14 characters if possible, and should
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consist only of alphanumeric characters and hyphens. If you
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do not include an archive name, one will be chosen for you.
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Please spell check and properly format your submissions. It's
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preferable to use lines shorter than 75 characters. Also, please be
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generous with your paragraph breaks -- it makes your submission much
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easier to read.
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Subject: 7. Do you ever edit or modify submissions before approving them?
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From time to time I have made small spelling corrections and changed
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the formatting of submitted posts slightly, but in general, no. I do
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not regard it as my place to override authors' artistic judgments.
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However, as stated above, submissions may be rejected if they appear
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to be written carelessly or unthinkingly in violation of the rules of
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written or spoken English.
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I do reserve the right to edit submitted messages if I find it
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necessary -- mainly to modify the Subject or Keywords headers.
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Regrettably, I may also need to remove some newsgroups from the
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Newsgroups header supplied by the author, for I cannot post to certain
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newsgroups (for example, alt.sex.wizards) from this site.
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Subject: 8. What if my submission is rejected?
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An unmoderated newsgroup for erotica, alt.sex.stories, was created
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some time ago. If your post is rejected from rec.arts.erotica, you
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may either edit it so that it falls within the guidelines for
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submission and then resubmit it, or you may post it directly to
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alt.sex.stories.
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Subject: 9. Can I post anonymously?
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I will not accept anonymous submissions from remote anonymity servers
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such as anon.penet.fi. When I have the time, I will prepare a service
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on this site allowing you to post anonymously to rec.arts.erotica.
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Subject: 10. Can you please cancel my last post?
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I reserve the right to cancel posts which have already been approved
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to rec.arts.erotica, for any reason. This includes, but is not
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limited to, submissions which violate someone's copyright, which are
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subsequently shown to be reposts of old rec.arts.erotica material, or
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which prove to be intended primarily to harass or humiliate another
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Usenet participant.
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I also reserve the right to refuse to cancel any post which was sent
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somehow in error. It is your responsibility to check and proofread
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messages before they are sent, to know your local site's policy on
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postings to Usenet, and to understand what it means to have your name
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appear in the header of a post to rec.arts.erotica. I cannot be
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responsible for such mistakes, and I don't think it's appropriate to
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unnecessarily inconvenience readers of this newsgroup by cancelling
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posts that were submitted carelessly.
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Subject: 11. Is there a publicly-accessible site which archives this group?
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* NOTE: I have neither the time nor resources to make my *
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* archives of rec.arts.erotica publicly available. Any *
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* requests I receive for reposts, old submissions, or to *
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* be subscribed or unsubscribed from mailing lists, are *
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* likely to be dropped in the bit-bucket without comment *
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* or acknowledgement. *
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There are archive sites, but many do not wish to make this public
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knowledge because of the crush of archive requests which invariably
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result. Please do not jeopardize the existence of erotica archive
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sites by posting their names. I will include the name of such a site
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here only if the administrator of the service has given me permission.
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If you manage such an archive site and are willing to announce it
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publicly, please notify me and I will include it in this posting,
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which I hope will be updated from time to time with new information of
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this kind. If you are willing to *publicly* archive rec.arts.erotica
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but do not have copies of the archives, I will be happy to supply you
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with copies of past submissions.
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The following archives of rec.arts.erotica have been made known to me:
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FTP sites:
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None. If you manage such a site, please let me know
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so I can include the information in this FAQ.
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Mail Servers:
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* server@hermes.acm.rpi.edu
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Send mail to server@hermes.acm.rpi.edu with the word "help"
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in the body of the message. Note that this archive contains
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a variety of erotic texts, but does not presently archive
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all posts to rec.arts.erotica.
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If you are willing to offer your resources to augment any of these
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services, *please* let me know. I would like to distribute the load
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of archive requests and mailing list subscriptions over as wide a base
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as possible, in order to prevent any single site from becoming
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overwhelmed.
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Subject: 12. Can I get rec.arts.erotica via e-mail?
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I do not know of any mailing list reflector of rec.arts.erotica
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currently in operation. If you administer such a mailing list and
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would like it advertised here, please let me know.
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Subject: 13. Where can I get sexy GIFs?
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I haven't a clue. Nor do I wish to get one, on this subject.
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Subject: 14. Where is Amherst?
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My Amherst is Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, but I have
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heard tell of Amhersts in New Hampshire; New York; Vermont; Ohio;
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Virginia; Colorado; Maine; Minnesota; Montana; Nebraska; North
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Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Wisconsin; Nova Scotia;
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England; and Victoria, Australia.
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That's all for now. Happy reading (and posting)!
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--
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Moderator, rec.arts.erotica. Submissions to erotica@unix.amherst.edu.
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Please, no reposts, first drafts, or requests for "subscriptions,"
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stories, GIFs, or archive sites.
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