Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!gti.gti.net!apollo!director From: director@gti.net (The Director) Newsgroups: alt.sex.movies,alt.sex,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: ***Welcome to alt.sex.movies! *** Followup-To: alt.sex.movies Date: 21 Jun 1996 15:09:27 GMT Organization: The Director's Chair Lines: 132 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Message-ID: <83536976618734@apollo> NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo.gti.net Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.sex.movies:107032 alt.sex:350531 alt.answers:18652 news.answers:74925 Archive-name: alt-sex/movies/welcome Posting-Frequency: weekly Last-modified: 11 Feb 1996 Version: 6.05 URL: http://w3.gti.net/director/faqindex.html *** Welcome to alt.sex.movies! *** alt.sex.movies is a USENET newsgroup dedicated to the intelligent and mature discussion of adult videos. Discussion includes, but is not limited to, reviews of current and not-so-current releases, gossip, behind the scenes stories, and discussion of actors and actresses (and directors and producers and...) If you are new to USENET, I suggest you read the groups news.answers, news.announce.newusers and news.newusers.questions to get a good feel as to what USENET is all about. A staple of USENET is the FAQ document. FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions. Many of the questions concerning the newsgroups which have been asked over and over have been placed into FAQs. alt.sex.movies is no different. The alt.sex.movies FAQ answers MANY MANY MANY common questions -- if you are new to a.s.m., make sure you READ THE FAQ BEFORE POSTING!!!!!!! The FAQ is posted twice a month to a.s.m. on the first and third Fridays of the month. Every Friday this notice is posted; more often if necessary. To get the latest FAQ by anonymous FTP: a) ftp "rtfm.mit.edu" - all parts of the asm FAQ are in the directory /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/alt-sex/movies To get the latest FAQ by WWW: See the alt.sex.movies FAQ homepage at: http://w3.gti.net/director/faqindex.html Sites to see (many more are available in the FAQ): Check out Heretic's alt.sex.movies home page at: http://home.eznet.net/~rwilhelm/asm/index.html You'll find the facials lists, big clit lists, as well as whole bunches of reviews here. Selected old posts can be found in the alt.sex.movies library: http://home.eznet.net/~rwilhelm/asm/library/index.html A searchable movie database is available for your perusal at http://home.eznet.net/~rwilhelm/asm/dbsearch.html Check out Dan Abend's Adult Film Stars site at: http://www.cris.com/~abend/biokeeper If you don't have FTP or Web Access and need the latest FAQs, use the MIT mailbot by sending e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with a blank subject. In the body of the message cut and paste the following: send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part1 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part2 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part3 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part4 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part5 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part6 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part7 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part8 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part9 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part10 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part11 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/part12 send usenet/news.answers/alt-sex/movies/how-to-get-bios The people in alt.sex.movies are pretty helpful, and have a good sense of humor. However, some things to remember when posting... a) Don't ask for replies via e-mail (if the QUESTION is worth posting, the ANSWER will be valuable to everyone in the group). Also, it implies YOUR time is more valuable than THEIRS, since you're expecting _them_ to read all the posts to see yours, yet _you're_ not willing to scan the subjects to see their reply. b) when following up on a posting, please delete any non-relevant lines from the original post (including header and sig). Posting more than 10 lines from the original post is TOO MUCH. Posting no lines from the original is TOO LITTLE. ALSO, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EACH TIME YOU POST, YOU'RE ASKING A COMPLETE STRANGER TO SPEND TIME HELPING YOU: - if the answers you receive are not what you wanted, DON'T FLAME!, just post a follow-up note thanking the respondents for their suggestions so far, and provide a clarified problem statement. - if you receive no responses, DON'T PANIC!, give it a couple of days: it takes a while for postings to propagate around the world; sometimes your posting is similar to one posted in the previous couple of weeks and people are sick of the topic (check your news server's archive); sometimes your question is a 'toughie' which requires some thinking/research time; and sometimes everyone's just too busy. If you get no reply after a week, try again with additional clarification, and consider using the following format: i) FLATTERY SECTION: "I've learned a lot from the faqs and watching the postings for the last month, but now I have a really tough problem for you gurus" ii) BEGGING FOR HELP: "I've checked the FAQs, library, etc... any advice would be appreciated (please post responses to this newsgroup as I don't read my e-mail very often)" - if the answers are useful, a quick _e-mail_ thanking the respondent(s) is always appreciated This language is taken from the excellent comp.lang.basic.visual.* "Welcome message." Used with permission for which I am eternally grateful. Any suggestions to this welcoming letter are always appreciated! Your FAQ-keeper, The Director