From: mss1@cornell.edu (Michael Scott Shappe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: TREK-REVIEW-L Announcement (Long)
Followup-To: poster
Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:59:37 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Expires: 8 Mar 1993 01:04:00 GMT
Reply-To: mss1@cornell.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: harper-hall.cit.cornell.edu
Summary: A new mailing list for Star Trek reviews
Keywords: Star Trek Review Mailing List Giraffes
Originator: mshappe@harper-hall.cit.cornell.edu

[Please feel free to redistribute this announcement to any other forum
you believe appropriate. This announcement will be reposted
periodically, possibly with revisions. If you believe there are other
fora to which I should be periodically posting this, please let me
know]

ANNOUNCING the creation of a new MAILING LIST for Star Trek Reviews:

	TREK-REVIEW-L@cornell.edu

About the list:
---------------

TREK-REVIEW-L exists as a noise-free forum for reviews of Star Trek
material. This category includes but is not limited to television
programs, feature films, novels and novelizations, comic books, games
and parodies of Star Trek.

THE list is not rooted in any specific generation of Trek.  Original
Series, Animated Series, Movie Era, Next Generation and Deep Space
Nine materials are all valid.

ONE way to perceive this list is as a kind of edited electronic
fanzine.  Where 'rec.arts.startrek.info' is a kind of Trek newspaper,
containing only hard news and plot summaries, this mailing list exists
for CRITICAL opinion features written by and for the electronic mail
audience.
 
IF a 'rec.arts.startrek.reviews' newsgroup is created in the future,
this list will gateway into it.

THERE are three categories of acceptable submission: review, rating,
and comment.

'REVIEW' is defined as a CRITICAL essay about either a specific work
or Star Trek in general.  Posts of the form, 'I thought that TNG's
latest episode, "Foo on Picard" was the awesomest episode ever' or,
similarly, 'I thought that DSN's latest episode, "O'Brien Gets Drunk"
sucked backwards' are not acceptable.

'RATING' is defined as a graded or numeric rating. If you wish to
merely register your opinion without critical comment, then you may
send such a rating to the list address. Ratings collected in this
manner, as well as copied from reviews, will be posted periodically on
a per-episode basis.

'COMMENT' is defined as a CRITICAL response to a review. This is not a
discussion list; however, CRITICAL responses to reviews sent to the
list address which the moderator believes to be of general interest
will be bundled together and published in digest format as a 'letter
column'.

SUBMISSIONS should be sent to 'TREK-REVIEW-L@cornell.edu'.  Accepted
submissions are acknowledged by publication. Rejected submissions will
be acknowledged by a return letter, explaining why the submission was
rejected.

What the list isn't for
-----------------------

The list is not a discussion list. Neither, however, is it intended to
displace 'rec.arts.startrek.current' as another home for reviews.
Rather, it is intended as an alternative access point to critical
opinion about Star Trek for people who find
'rec.arts.startrek.current' overwhelming or cannot access it for some
reason. It is expected that many of the reviews posted to the list
will also find their way (assumedly at their author's hands) onto
'r.a.s.current'. That, therefore, is where discussion should take place.

The list is not for press releases or plot summaries without
commentary. That's why we have 'rec.arts.startrek.info' (thank you,
Jim!)

The list is not for the redistribution of commercially published
reviews, with or without permission. It is for the posting of comments
for and by members of the various electronic networks that make up or
exchange mail with The Internet.

The list is not intended as a replacement for proposals to create a
'rec.arts.startrek.reviews' newsgroup. Rather, it exists to fill the gap
some feel such a group would also fill until efforts to create such a
newsgroup are successful. Neither, however, will that newsgroup
necessarily mean the end of this list.

Joining the list
----------------

TO subscribe to the list, send the following command IN MAIL to
'LISTSERV@cornell.edu' --

	SUBSCRIBE TREK-REVIEW-L Firstname Lastname

FOR further information about the Cornell Listserv, send the command

	HELP

to the LISTSERV address.

PLEASE 

* DO NOT send subscribe requests directly to me unless you have
  first tried to subscribe through the automatic system and failed (and
  yes, I will know if that is the case, since I'm also the server
  manager and get copies of error messages).

* DO NOT try to send to 'trek-review-l-request@cornell.edu', because
  there ain't no such animal.

THE correct request address is 'LISTSERV@cornell.edu'.

THE correct submission address is 'TREK-REVIEW-L@cornell.edu'.


About the Cornell Listserv
--------------------------

The Cornell Listserv is based on Tasos Kotsikonas' Unix Listserver.
Many commands are similar to those found on BITNET's Revised Listserv
(by Eric Thomas(?)), but many are different. PLEASE use the HELP
system to get information about any command you are unsure about.

The Cornell Listserv expects to receive only commands in the body of a
message. Many mail user programs (foolishly) reproduce what should be
header information in the body of a message, confusing Listserv.

In particular, QuickMail users should use a BLANK QM form when
interacting with Listserv -- that is, a form with NO text
pre-inscribed on it -- just a text box for the user to type in.

If you experience difficulties and believe this is the cause, contact
me.

Finally...
----------

This list is something of an experiment. I've been toying with the
idea of an on-line fanzine of this sort for many years, and this
seemed like the Right Time. Furthermore, if it can help to establish
whether or not USENET needs another Star Trek newsgroup, it will have
served a useful purpose. It may turn out that a mailing list is
enough; it may show that there is so much interest in an reviews-only
group that a newsgroup would be beneficial; or it may show that
interest is small enough that even a mailing list is too much effort.
Only time will tell. In the mean time, I hope that those interested
will join the list, either to read, or to participate.

Yours in service the dream,
Uncle Mikey
mss1@cornell.edu







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