FAQ Modification Project

1.  Introductory Material

1a.  About this newsgroup.

Alt.fan.dragons is an unmoderated forum for the posting of any and all topics 
relating to dragons, as well as opinion, discussion, stories and poetry about 
any aspect of dragons. The discussion is not restricted to any single author's 
or individual's views on dragons' life-cycles or behavior, but is a free 
discussion on any aspect or ideas put forth about them. It is suggested that 
binary picture files regarding dragons be posted to alt.binaries.pictures.misc 
and a reference posted here saying that you have done so. Give the posted 
picture's subject name as you posted it, so that it can be easily found. 
(See 1b) The news group was created on 12/1/93.

Topics could include but are not limited to:

*  Discussion on dragon life cycles, social organization, behavior,
   characteristics, legends, art styles and other aspects.
*  Discussions regarding specific author's ideas regarding dragons.
*  Any original ideas, stories or poems.
*  Any recent dragon sightings!
*  Character posting dragon characters.
*  Anything else that is relevant to dragons in general.

1b.  Posting worldwide to alt.fan.dragons.

If your unsure how to access news through you local internet provider contact 
your local provider's administrator and ask them about how you can read 
usenet news on the internet. If your local internet provider doesn't have a 
news server from which you can read and post news articles there is a free 
web based news provider called Goggle Groups. The Url is: 
    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.fan.dragons

1c.  What about posting binary pictures?

We encourage the posting of binary dragon pictures, But PLEASE DO NOT POST 
THEM DIRECTLY TO ALT.FAN.DRAGONS! The correct procedure for posting any 
binary pictures to Usenet is to post them to alt.binaries.pictures.misc and 
have a message posted to alt.fan.dragons pointing the reader to check in 
alt.binaries.pictures.misc for the binary images.

Reasoning: The reason behind doing this is binaries take up a lot of space 
on hard drives. Having images grouped under alt.binaries makes life easier 
for news admins. They can easily configure things to retain those groups 
for fewer days than other groups, if that's necessary to free up space, or 
if they can't afford to carry this stuff at all. If binaries are posted to 
this group many news admins will drop the group from their site. So please 
DO POST PICTURES - but post them to alt.binaries.pictures.misc.

Posting to alt.binaries.pictures.misc:

There is a preferred format for posting to a.b.p.m to make it easier for 
viewers to find what they're looking for. You should include a description 
of the file by itself in the first post which should be labeled (00/total). 
Below is what should be included in the subject line when you post.

- filename.type (part/total) {label} ^REPOST^ [sh] "extraTitle"
^ ^        ^     ^    ^       ^       ^        ^    ^
| |        |     |    |       |       |        |    |
1 2        3     4    5       6       7        8    9

1) The '-' character sets this off as a picture posting
2) The name of the file. REQUIRED
3) The type of picture (GIF, JPEG, PostScript). REQUIRED
4&5) Which part of how many this is.  Enclosed in parentheses. REQUIRED.
6) The type of picture ("dragon", "plane", "scenic", etc.).
7) Notifies everyone that this is a repost of a posting that went sour.
8) Flag that notifies people that if the posting uses script wrappers
9) Additional descriptive text to give a better idea of whats in the
picture.

You should also have under the header field "Keywords: alt.fan.dragons" so 
that our group can easily find the image by doing a search.

 Example:
 Subject: - Reddragon.gif (00/09) {Dragons} "Red dragon flaming"
 Keywords: alt.fan.dragons

Referencing your post back to alt.fan.dragons:

When referencing your posts back to alt.fan.dragons it is suggested that 
you post the following reference in your subject line to let people know 
you have posted a picture to alt.binaries.pictures.misc.

 - filename.type Posted To: alt.binaries.pictures.misc

You might want to include the description in this message and the complete 
subject used the posted image to a.b.p.m.