From: jerod23@well.sf.ca.us (Jerod Pore)
Subject: Latest F5 info
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:59:45 GMT


News, we've got Factsheet Five news.

As this is my first posting (in awhile) across a bunch of newsgroups, let
me inform those who don't know already that the >printed< version of 
Factsheet Five is now real.  First class and bulk subscriptions / sample
issues have been mailed.

[For those of you who don't know what Factsheet Five is:  F5 is the central
clearinghouse of information about zines.  Zines are small magazines
published by one or a few people, often xeroxed, and always a labor of 
love instead of being yet another product.  The rest of this article will
have a couple of pointers for you.]

Next, we have several files almost ready to go for subscribers to the 
electronic version of F5.  The Queer Zine Explosion from Holy Titclamps is
almost complete.  The punk zine reviews from MaximumRockNRoll #118 will be
ready soon.  I've reviewed about 60 science fiction & fantasy zines of all
sorts, from the truly amazing Klingon fanzine "The Agonizer" to 
"Zoomorphica" a new zine of original fiction about furries that includes a
story by Lawrence Watt-Evans.  We've been gagging over the poetry zines,
finding two or three that were good and the rest............

After those go out, we'll be working on the one category of zines that most
fascinates people:  the rants, the cranks, the Nazis, the conspiracies, the
UFO contactees, the people who talk to God, the people who ARE god and all
sorts of weird and wonderful people who live in a private reality yet feel
the need to tell the world about it.

If you wish to subscribe to FactSheet Five - Electric, just email me.
Please DO NOT include any of this article, as such a practice annoys me
tremendously, causes me more work, and will lead to a delay in your sub.
F5-E comes in two flavors, "issue" and "update"  Update subscribers get
files as they become available.  The four files due out Real Soon will go
to the update subscribers.  Issue subscribers get 20-30 files all at once
(when I feel like I have enough stuff to make an issue of it) as 20-30
discrete letters.  I most appreciate an empty letter with "subscribe update"
"subscribe issue" or "subscribe both" as the subject.

If you wish to pick up the files that comprise F5-E via anonymous ftp, the
site is moving to red.css.itd.umich.edu (along with practically every other
radical ezine in cyberspace).  ftp over and cruise around.  I'm sure that
pauls put the files in some logically named place.  My file names are not,
alas, too logically named as yet, but I'm working on it.  A Gopher/Archie/
Veronica site is being set up here on The WELL.  When it becomes operative,
rest assure I'll let the whole bloody Net know about it.

If you wish to learn more about F5, F5-E and zines in general, then regular
channels might help.  Mike Gunderloy (the founder of Factsheet Five) was
interviewed by Entertainment Tonight.  ET promises the broadcast to be
"late next week."  So if you can stomach watching it the week of the 25-30
you might learn something.  I was interviewed by Computer Chronicles and
the uplink is scheduled for Tuesday, 26 January.  Computer Chronicles is
broadcast by many PBS affiliates.  Here in the Bay Area it will be shown
on KQED 1/28/93 at 1:00 pm and KCSM (channel 60) 1/29/93 at 9:00 pm.
Also, the Washington Post interviewed the people involved in the print
version (Mike, Seth and alledgedly Hudson), a story should be printed soon.
Details For Men sent a reporter out here to Frisco to interview me, Seth
and a bunch of other zinesters.  Look for that article in March, April or
May.

jerod23@well.sf.ca.us