Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.amherst.edu!not-for-mail From: erotica@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) Newsgroups: rec.arts.erotica,alt.sex,alt.sex.stories.d,rec.arts.prose,rec.answers,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: ADMIN: rec.arts.erotica introduction Supersedes: Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Date: 7 Apr 1994 05:00:06 -0400 Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA, USA Lines: 316 Approved: erotica@unix.amherst.edu, news-answers-request@mit.edu Expires: 21 May 1994 09:00:04 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) NNTP-Posting-Host: amhux3.amherst.edu Summary: rec.arts.erotica Frequently Asked Questions and submission guidelines Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu rec.arts.erotica:765 alt.sex:60542 alt.sex.stories.d:3899 rec.arts.prose:1559 rec.answers:4782 alt.answers:2352 news.answers:17755 Archive-name: erotica-faq Frequency: monthly Last-modified: 6 Apr 1994 New material is indicated by a "+" at the beginning of a line; revised material, by a "!". Material that will be deleted with the next FAQ is marked with a "-" at the beginning of a line. INTRODUCTION TO REC.ARTS.EROTICA AND FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS [ Last changed: April 6, 1994 ] Welcome to rec.arts.erotica! This news group is intended to be a low-volume, noise-free environment in which to find erotic literature, and pointers of where to find other erotic materials. It is here for the enjoyment of the Usenet community and no other reason. Original submissions, and works either released into the public domain, or copyrighted but without restriction of distribution, are welcome. There aren't many rules here, but there are some. I don't think they're too outlandish, and I'm always open to change if some policy is too restrictive. But your reasons had better be good... If you have a suggestion or problem with the following answers, please write me. Posting to the newsgroup should also work, because most news systems automatically mail posts to moderated groups (such as rec.arts.erotica) to the moderator's mailbox. Do not post or mail requests for stories of names of archive sites. Such requests will go ignored. Questions answered in this post: 1. What will happen if I post to rec.arts.erotica? 2. What kind of submission is unacceptable? 3. How about "taboo" subject matter? 4. What should I include in my submission? 5. Do you ever edit or modify submissions before approving them? 6. What if my submission is rejected? 7. Can I post anonymously? + 8. Whoops! Can you please cancel my last post? I made a mistake. 9. Is there a publicly-accessible site which archives this group? 10. My site has dropped (or never received) rec.arts.erotica. Can I get it by e-mail? 11. Where can I get sexy GIFs? 12. Where is Amherst? (If you wish only to read a particular question and skip all the others, and are using a pager that understands regular expressions, search for the expression /^##\. / to go directly to the question numbered ##.) ANSWERS: 1. What will happen if I post to rec.arts.erotica? + (For information on cancelling articles that have already been + posted, please see question 8.) First, your post will be sent to me automatically via e-mail, so that I can review it. Therefore, don't expect your post to show up within a few minutes after being composed. It'll have to wait until the next time I log on and have time to review new submissions. If traffic is high, this might be more than a few days (and has taken two weeks or more in the past). Next, I check it over for acceptability (see below). If your submission meets all of the guidelines required of rec.arts.erotica postings, I will "approve" it and have it posted to the newsgroup. I will also save your post in my archives of rec.arts.erotica. Please note that by submitting to this newsgroup, you are implicitly granting permission for your work to be archived here and at any other archive of rec.arts.erotica that someone might be maintaining. Before approving a submission, however, I will add a Keywords header line to your submission containing a list of the topics explored therein. The reason for this is to permit people who are either strongly interested or strongly disinterested in particular topics to determine quickly whether they will find your post interesting. The following keywords are used to describe a post's content: admin: administrative announcements, indexes of stories, etc. animal: bestiality and animals annc: announcements other than administrative: freeware, etc. bond: bondage (physical restraint) dom: domination (primarily psychological) ff: female-female contact furry: sentient non-human characters (e.g. "Journal Entries") gothic: vampires and other Gothic subjects (e.g. "Night Music") group: group sex and threesomes heavy: "heavy" forms of bdsm humor: joke posts or amusing stories (e.g. "Barbeque of Doom") incest: incestuous relationships mf: male-female contact mild: "mild" forms of bdsm mm: male-male contact nc: non-consensual situations pedo: pedophilia (pre-pubescent) (e.g. "Misty") poem: poetry rape: rape scenes and other violent non-consensual sexuality scat: scatology and coprophilia series: long stories split into sections (e.g. "Marie") sf: speculative fiction: sci-fi, heavy fantasy, and the like sm: sadism and masochism teen: consensual sex involving teenagers and postpubescents trans: transsexuality, crossdressing and transgender topics water: watersports and urophilia Before posting an article to rec.arts.erotica, I also add a header line entitled "X-Moderator-Review." This line contains a numeric rating which may fall between 1 and 10, and a one-line summary of my opinion of the post. This entire header is purely subjective, and may freely be ignored if you do not find it useful. 2. What kind of submission is unacceptable? NOTE: * Adherence to the following guidelines is completely * * the responsibility of you, the poster, regardless of * * the story's original source. I neither edit * * submissions nor have the time to perform a * * complete authenticity check on every submission. * * I will reject flagrant violations of these rules * * if I notice them, but I disclaim having any such * * obligation. * * Material that isn't sexually oriented. This isn't a place for detective stories or politics. Note, however, that "sexually oriented" is a relatively subjective term; Anais Nin, for example, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of erotica of our time, wrote a good deal of highly erotic material that is also completely sexless. * Copyrighted work that isn't publicly distributable. This does not include work that has been copyrighted in such a way as to permit redistribution. * Anything submitted from a temporary, guest, or numbered account, unless there's a name attached to it. Other accounts such as "news," "root," or accounts belonging to organizations are considered "guest" accounts for these purposes. * Non-textual material such as binary-encoded graphics. * Something that's already appeared on this newsgroup. * Material which exhibits an exceptionally poor grasp of written English. A single proofreading with a spellchecker and a copy of Strunk and White should fix most such rejections. 3. How about "taboo" subject matter? Most sexually-oriented material is acceptable here. That includes heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, DSM, fetishism, and so on. The sky's pretty much the limit. 4. What should i include in my submission? Approved postings now carry an "Archive-name:" header, which is parsable by "rkive" and other archive-maintenance software. Because of this, it would make my life slightly easier if you include *both*: * a descriptive Subject line. Note that "story" and "submission" are not what I consider to be descriptive. * a suggestion for a one-word archive name. The archive name should be no longer than 14 characters if possible, and should consist only of alphanumeric characters and hyphens. If you do not include an archive name, one will be chosen for you. Please spell check and properly format your submissions. It's preferable to use lines shorter than 75 characters. Also, please be generous with your paragraph breaks -- it makes your submission much easier to read. 5. Do you ever edit or modify submissions before approving them? From time to time I have made small spelling corrections and changed the formatting of submitted posts slightly, but in general, no. I do not regard it as my place to override authors' artistic judgments. However, as stated above, submissions may be rejected if they appear to be written carelessly or unthinkingly in violation of the rules of written or spoken English. I do reserve the right to edit submitted messages if I find it necessary -- mainly to modify the Subject or Keywords headers. Regrettably, I may also need to remove some newsgroups from the Newsgroups header supplied by the author, for I cannot post to certain newsgroups (for example, alt.sex.wizards) from this site. 6. What if my submission is rejected? An unmoderated newsgroup for erotica, alt.sex.stories, was created some time ago. If your post is rejected from rec.arts.erotica, you may either edit it so that it falls within the guideliens for submission and then resubmit it, or you may post it directly to alt.sex.stories. 7. Can I post anonymously? I will not accept anonymous submissions from remote anonymity servers such as anon.penet.fi. When I have the time, I will prepare a service on this site allowing you to post anonymously to rec.arts.erotica. + 8. Whoops! Can you please cancel my last post? I made a mistake. + + I reserve the right to cancel posts which have already been + approved to rec.arts.erotica, for any reason. This includes, but + is not limited to, submissions which violate someone's copyright, + which are subsequently shown to be reposts of old rec.arts.erotica + material, or which prove to be intended primarily to harass or + humiliate another Usenet participant. + + I also reserve the right to refuse to cancel any post which was + sent somehow in error. It is your responsibility to check and + proofread messages before they are sent, to know your local site's + policy on postings to Usenet, and to understand what it means to + have your name appear in the header of a post to rec.arts.erotica. + I cannot be responsible for such mistakes, and I don't think it's + appropriate to unnecessarily inconvenience readers of this + newsgroup by cancelling posts that were submitted carelessly. 9. Is there a publicly-accessible site which archives this group? * NOTE: I have neither the time nor resources to make my * * archives of rec.arts.erotica publicly available. Any * * requests I receive for reposts, old submissions, or to * * be subscribed or unsubscribed from mailing lists, are * * likely to be dropped in the bit-bucket without comment * * or acknowledgement. * There are archive sites, but many do not wish to make this public knowledge because of the crush of archive requests which invariably result. Please do not jeopardize the existence of erotica archive sites by posting their names. I will include the name of such a site here only if the administrator of the service has given me permission. If you manage such an archive site and are willing to announce it publicly, please notify me and I will include it in this posting, which I hope will be updated from time to time with new information of this kind. If you are willing to *publicly* archive rec.arts.erotica but do not have copies of the archives, I will be happy to supply you with copies of past submissions. The following archives of rec.arts.erotica have been made known to me: FTP sites: None. If you manage such a site, please let me know so I can include the information in this FAQ. Mail Servers: * server@hermes.acm.rpi.edu Send mail to server@hermes.acm.rpi.edu with the word "help" in the body of the message. Note that this archive contains a variety of erotic texts, but does not presently archive all posts to rec.arts.erotica. If you are willing to offer your resources to augment any of these services, *please* let me know. I would like to distribute the load of archive requests and mailing list subscriptions over as wide a base as possible, in order to prevent any single site from becoming overwhelmed. 10. My site has dropped (or never received) rec.arts.erotica. Can I get it by e-mail? The following mailing lists exist which duplicate the traffic on rec.arts.erotica: + NOTE: THIS MAILING LIST IS TEMPORARILY INACTIVE WHILE ITS + OWNER SEEKS A NEW HOME FOR IT. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SUBSCRIBE. + THIS INFORMATION WILL BE REMOVED WITH THE NEXT FAQ. - * majordomo@homes.com - - Send mail to majordomo@homes.com to subscribe; this message - should contain the line "subscribe erotica" somewhere in its body - in order to be processed automatically by the server. For - administrative questions, write to erotica-request@homes.com. - - I am deeply grateful to Andrew Finkelstadt (andy@vistachrome.com) - for providing readers with this service. 11. Where can I get sexy GIFs? I haven't a clue. Nor do I wish to get one, on this subject. 12. Where is Amherst? My Amherst is Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, but I have heard tell of Amhersts in New Hampshire; New York; Vermont; Ohio; Virginia; Colorado; Maine; Minnesota; Montana; Nebraska; North Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Wisconsin; Nova Scotia; England; and Victoria, Australia. That's all for now. Happy reading (and posting)! -- Moderator, rec.arts.erotica. Submissions to erotica@unix.amherst.edu. Please, no reposts, first drafts, or requests for "subscriptions," stories, GIFs, or archive sites.