From: jerod23@well.sf.ca.us (Jerod Pore)
Subject: FactSheet Five - Electric
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:38:47 GMT



FactSheet Five is alive and well in an electronic format.  We have, to date,
17 review files of zines.  We've more-or-less categorized zines and lumped
the reviews together.  Review files are available via anonymous ftp at
ftp.msen.com in /pub/newsletters/F5-E
If you have trouble with, or are unable to execute an anonymous ftp request,
you mail receive the files from me via email.

We are loosely associated with the old, printed version of FactSheet Five.
FactSheet Five *MAY* (stress, may) be printed again, but don't get your
hopes up.  The only thing I'll have to do with a printed version is supply
reviews of zines.

Hudson Luce had planned on started another zine review zine entitled V.
Unfortunately, a rather nasty bicycle accident has put Hudson out of
commission.  V. will NOT be published.

Our files are shareright.  Anyone who likes may distribute this information
in whatever form and format they desire.  The more distribution, the better.
We are always in need of reviewers.  If you review zines (for whatever
reason) please forward those reviews to me IF shareright distribution is
acceptable to you.  We are republishing the zine reviews from
MaximumRockNRoll (we publish their zine reviews about a month before the
printed version hits the streets) and Holy Titclamp's Queer Zine Explosion.

If you publish a zine and would like it reviewed, please send it to:

Jerod Pore
1800 Market St. #141
San Francisco CA   94102-6227

I have other people doing reviews of other types of zines.  Once I update
the info file (posted as an article in rec.mag) I'll post the names and
addresses of people who are willing to do reviews for me.

If you wish, send a large SASE with your zine.  Contrary to what you may
have seen on TV or Movies, houses here in SF are very small.  I don't have
the space to be an archivist.  In addition to the reviewing, I am carrying
on the zine exchange.  Also, since I'm not printing F5-E, I figure y'all
deserve *something* back in trade.  While you may request specific types of
zines in trade, the zines to be exchanged are predicated upon what has
already been reviewed and which box is the easiest to retrieve from my
storage space.

I'll be working on a table of contents.  Here are the types of zines
reviewed to date:

Art/Collage zines
Publisher's Choice (Posted in rec.mag  I'll post it here, too)
Comix
Food and Health zines
Hobby, Game and Job zines
Literary zines - criticism and original fiction (NOT SF, Horror or such)
Mykel Board's leftover zine reviews from _Nothing But Record Reviews_
Personal zines
Political zines - this file will be updated frequently.  As of today I've
posted reviews of Libertarian zines and am working on the Anarchist zines.
Punk zines - from MRR
Queer zines - from Holy Titclamps
Rant/Hate zines
Sex zines
SF & Fantasy zines - review, original writings and fandom
Slasher/Horror/Sleaze zines
Sports zines - mainly wrestling
Technology zines - including Cyberzines, Neurozines and anti-technology
zines.  This will also be getting an update.

 Still to be reviewed:

Remaining political zines
Music zines not covered by MRR
Community and Travel zines
AND, the two big boxes of zines that defy classification.

The above mentioned files, except queer and punk, were derived from zines
that I've been getting directly and the 350 pounds of zines Hudson sent me
back in April.  I'm expecting another delivery of 250 pounds of zines in
early September.

Oh, I forgot a couple of categories farmed out to others:
Spirituallity zines
the dreaded Poetry zines.

That's it for now!  You may wish to review postings in alt.co-evolution and
rec.mag for more data.  The new, online version of FactSheet Five is based
here on WELL ($15.00 a month, $2.00 an hour) where we have a conference
(much like a moderated newsgroup or a Compu$werve SIG) on zines and such.

Feel free to email me for more information (what?  that wasn't enough?), or
for the zine review files if you can't ftp them.

Jerod Pore
jerod23@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.zines