From: bs810@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (D. Eric Nay)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Frequently Asked Questions, pt. 2 of 2
Date: 9 Nov 1992 04:25:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Grateful Dead Frequently Asked Questions, pt.2
[Last update: November 08, 1992]

***Please note that this FAQ is split into two sections

This article includes answers to:

   12)  Which are some classic shows for tape collectors?
   13)  What does BIODTL mean (and other abbreviations)?
   14)  Is there a GD discography?
   15)  What radio stations carry the Grateful Dead Hour, and when?
   16)  Is there an archive of stuff from the net?
   17)  Whatever happened to Owsley?
   18)  What are mailing lists, and how do I subscribe to them?
   19)  Upcoming confirmed tour dates.
   20)  Is it OK to post rumors?
   21)  What are some topics that have caused "flame wars" in the past?
   22)  What should I do if I see a post from Jerry or Bob or Phil, etc.?
   23)  What is Stak-O-Dead and where can I get one?

If you're looking for the answer to, say, question 14, and want to skip
everything else, you can search ahead for the regular expression "^14)".  

If you have suggestions or corrections for any of these answers,
please send them to bs810@cleveland.freenet.edu

12) Which are some classic shows for tape collectors?
    -------------------------------------------------
    How about (these are just suggestions):

    03/25/66 - Trouper's Hall		11/19/66 - Fillmore Aud.
    08/24/68 - Shrine Aud.           	10/30/68 - Mickey & The Hartbeats
    03/01/69 - Fillmore West		12/12/69 - Thelma Theatre
    02/11/70 - Fillmore East		02/13/70 - Fillmore East
    02/14/70 - Fillmore East		05/02/70 - Harpur College
    05/06/70 - M.I.T.			09/20/70 - Fillmore East
    02/18/71 - Portchester		04/28/71 - Fillmore East
    04/29/71 - Fillmore East		07/02/71 - Fillmore West
    12/14/71 - Ann Arbor		07/26/72 - Portland
    08/21/72 - BCT			08/27/72 - Veneta
    02/09/73 - Maples Pavilion		05/26/73 - Kezar Stadium
    06/10/73 - RFK			11/10/73 - Winterland
    12/02/73 - Boston			02/24/74 - Winterland
    06/18/74 - Louisville		06/26/74 - Providence
    06/28/74 - Boston			10/19/74 - Winterland
    10/20/74 - Winterland	 	06/03/76 - Portland
    10/09/76 - Oakland			02/26/77 - San Bernardino
    03/18/77 - Winterland		05/08/77 - Cornell
    05/09/77 - Buffalo			06/09/77 - Winterland
    12/29/77 - Winterland		07/08/78 - Red Rocks
    10/21/78 - Winterland		12/31/78 - Winterland
    11/01/79 - Nassau			12/01/79 - Pittsburgh
    12/26/79 - Oakland			09/02/80 - Rochester
    05/06/81 - Nassau			05/16/81 - Cornell
    09/26/81 - Buffalo			10/16/81 - Milk Weg
    04/06/82 - Philly			04/19/82 - Baltimore
    04/16/83 - Brendan Byrne		04/17/83 - Brendan Byrne
    06/18/83 - Saratoga			09/06/83 - Red Rocks
    09/11/83 - Santa Fe			10/11/83 - MSG
    07/13/84 - Greek Theatre		10/12/84 - Augusta
    11/02/84 - BCT			06/14/85 - Greek Theatre
    06/24/85 - Cincinnati		09/07/85 - Red Rocks
    09/15/85 - Chula Vista		11/01/85 - Richmond
    03/20/86 - Hampton			12/27/86 - Oakland
    04/04/87 - Worcester		07/06/87 - Pittsburgh
    07/08/87 - Roanoke			09/18/87 - MSG
    12/31/87 - Oakland			03/27/88 - Hampton
    06/30/88 - Rochester		07/02/88 - Oxford Plains
    09/03/88 - Cap Centre		04/02/89 - Pittsburgh
    07/17/89 - Alpine Valley		10/09/89 - Hampton
    10/16/89 - Brendan Byrne		03/29/90 - Nassau
    07/12/90 - RFK			09/16/90 - MSG
    09/19/90 - MSG			09/20/90 - MSG
    10/27/90 - Paris			12/31/90 - Oakland
    06/14/91 - RFK			06/17/91 - Giants Stadium
    08/16/91 - Shoreline		09/10/91 - MSG
    09/26/91 - Boston			10/31/91 - Oakland
    12/28/91 - Oakland			03/20/92 - Hamilton
    05/31/92 - Las Vegas		06/20/92 - RFK    

[Always feel free to email me any additions - EN]

13) What does BIODTL mean (and other common abbreviations)?
    -------------------------------------------------------
    Here are a few:

    AKA: 	Also Known As (sometimes written "a/k/a") 
    AWBYGN:    	And We Bid You Good Night
    BCT:	Berkeley Community Theatre
    BG:		Bill Graham
		Boston Garden
    BGP:       	Bill Graham Presents 
    BIODTL:	Beat It On Down The Line
    BTW:        Black Throated Wind
		By The Way
    FAQ:	Frequently Asked Questions 
    FOAF:	Friend Of A Friend
    FOTD:       Friend of the Devil
    FQA:	Frequently Questioned Acronyms
    FTR:       	For The Record
    FWIW:      	For What It's Worth
    FTI:	For Your Information
    GD:		Grateful Dead (of course;-)
    GDH:	Grateful Dead Hour
    GDM:	Grateful Dead Merchandising
    GDTRFB:    	Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad 
    GDTS:	Grateful Dead Ticket Sales
    IJWTS:	I Just Want To Say
    IKYR:	I Know You Rider
    ITALTLITATTC:	
		It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
    IMHO:       In My H{umble, onest} Opinion
    IMNSHM:	In My Not So Humble Opinion
    IMO:	In My Opinion
    JAPD:       Just Another Picky Deadhead
    JBG:       	Johnny B. Goode
    JGAB:	Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
    JGB:       	Jerry Garcia Band 
    LDR:	Long Distance Relationship
    LJBF:	Let's Just Be Friends
    LLR:	Looks Like Rain
    LSD:	LySergic acid Diethylamide
    LTGTR:      Let The Good Times Roll
    MIDI:	Musical Instrument Digital Interface
    MO:		Mail Order
    MSG:	Madison Square Garden
		MonoSodium Glutamate
    MSWS:      	Man Smart, Woman Smarter   
    NFA:       	Not Fade Away
    NSB:	New Speedway Boogie
    NYE:	New Year's Eve
    ODC:        Obligatory Dead Content
    OFTV:	One From The Vault
    OMSN:       One More Saturday Night
    OTOH:	On The Other Hand
    PITB:       Playing In The Band 
    RSVP:	Repondez, S'il Vous Plait (French for "please reply")
    SASE:	Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
    SIOFWTMBA:	Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
    SO:		Significant Other
    SOTM:       Standing On The Moon
    SPAC:	Saratoga Performing Arts Center
    SSAE:	Stamped, Self-Addressed Envelope
    SYF:        Steal Your Face, Space Your Face
    TANSTAAFL:	There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
    TLEO:       They Love Each Other
    UJB:	Uncle John's Band
    VLDR:	Very Long Distance Relationship
    VOTC:       Victim Or The Crime
    WALSTIB:    What A Long Strange Trip It's Been
    WELL:	Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
    WRT:	With Regard To (sometimes written "w/r/t")
    YATG:	Yet Another Ticket Grovel


14) Is there a GD discography?
    --------------------------
    Yes.  Compiled by Ihor W. Slabicky (iws@sgfb.ssd.ray.com), it is an
    attempt to summarize the Grateful Dead's history on vinyl, film, and
    paper.  It currently contains information on some 282 albums, 95
    singles, 87 movies/tv shows/videos/ads, 44 books, and 12 song books
    where the band and/or members of the band appear.  It should be
    available through the deadserv archive.  Ihor posts updated versions
    of the discography to rec.music.gdead/dead-flames once or twice a
    year.


15) What radio stations carry the Grateful Dead Hour, and when?
    -----------------------------------------------------------

GRATEFUL DEAD HOUR
National broadcast schedule as of October 21, 1992

KBRW-FM         Barrow AK                 Friday 10pm
KYUK-AM    580	Bethel AK
KRBD-FM  105.9  Ketchikan AK
WQPR-FM   88.7  Muscle Shoals AL          Friday midnight
WUAL-FM   91.5  Tuscaloosa/Bham AL        Friday midnight
KZON-FM  101.5  Phoenix AZ                Monday 11pm      <- starting 11/2
KXCI-FM   91.3  Tucson AZ                 Friday midnight
KHSU-FM   90.5  Arcata CA                 Tuesday 10pm
KPFA-FM   94.1  Berkeley CA               Wednesday 8 pm
KLSX-FM   97.1  Los Angeles CA            Sunday 11pm
KRFD-FM   99.9  Sacramento CA             Saturday 6pm
KRQR-FM   97.3  San Francisco CA          Monday 10pm
KGNU-FM   88.5  Boulder CO                Saturday 8pm
KSUT-FM   91.3  Ignacio CO                Saturday 11pm
WHCN-FM  105.9  Hartford CT               Saturday 11pm
WWDC-FM  101.1  Washington DC             Sunday 10pm
WJCT-FM   89.9  Jacksonville FL           Friday 11pm     < - NEW TIME
WZTA-FM   94.9  Miami FL                  Sunday 11pm 
WVGS-FM   91.9  Statesboro GA             TBA
KIPO-FM   89.3  Honolulu HI               Sunday 8pm
KFMG-FM  103.3  Des Moines IA             Sunday 6pm
KRUI-FM   89.7  Iowa City IA              Sunday 5pm
KBSU-FM   90.3  Boise ID                  Friday 11pm
WEFT-FM   90.1  Champaign IL              Monday 6pm
WXRT-FM   93.1  Chicago IL                Sunday 9pm
WGLT-FM   89.1  Normal IL                 Saturday 4pm
WBCN-FM  104.1  Boston MA                 Monday midnight
KUMD-FM  103.3  Duluth MN                 Saturday 4pm
KTCZ-FM   97.1  Minneapolis MN            Sunday 10pm
KOPN-FM   89.5  Columbia MO               Friday 7pm
KKFI-FM   90.1  Kansas City MO            Friday 10pm     <- new time
KMNR-FM   89.7  Rolla MO                  Saturday midnight
KDHX-FM   88.1  St. Louis MO              Saturday 11pm
WXRC-FM   95.7  Charlotte NC              Sunday 11pm
WZZU-FM   93.9  Raleigh NC                Sunday 11pm
KZRR-FM   94.1  Albuquerque NM            Wednesday 9pm
KTHX-FM  101.7  Reno NV                   Sunday 8pm
WGR-FM    96.9  Buffalo NY                Sunday 11pm
WNEW-FM  102.7  New York NY               Monday midnight
WPDH-FM  101.5  Poughkeepsie NY           Sunday 11pm
WMAX-FM  106.7  Rochester NY              Sunday 10pm
WRPI-FM   91.5  Troy NY                   Wednesday 7:30 pm
KMUN-FM   91.9  Astoria OR                Thursday 3:30pm
KSBA-FM   88.5  Coos Bay OR               Saturday 8pm
KSKF-FM   90.9  Klamath Falls OR          Saturday 8pm
KSMF-FM   89.1  Medford OR                Saturday 8pm
WMMR-FM   93.3  Philadelphia PA           Tuesday 11pm
WDUQ-FM   90.5  Pittsburgh PA             Sunday 8pm
WXAC-FM   91.3  Reading PA                Sunday 10pm     -> new day and time
WZZZ-FM   95.7  Scranton PA               Sunday 7pm
WRLT-FM  100.1  Nashville TN              Monday 10pm
KGSR-FM  107.1  Austin TX                 Saturday midnight
WCVE-FM   88.9  Richmond VA               Saturday 11:30pm
WROV-FM   96.3  Roanoke VA                Sunday 7pm
WKOC-FM   93.7  Virginia Beach VA         Monday midnight
WIZN-FM  106.7  Burlington VT             Sunday 10pm
KBCS-FM   91.3  Seattle WA                Tuesday 10pm     ->new day 10/20/92
KUWR-FM   91.9  Laramie WY                Saturday midnight

Y95       95.3  Hamilton/Toronto, Ont     Monday 1am

submitted to rec.music.gdead by:	David Gans	tnf@well.sf.ca.us
			               {apple,pacbell,hplabs,ucbvax}!well!tnf

Eternal thanx to David for the kind sounds of the Dead Hour.

16) Is there an archive of material from the net?
    ---------------------------------------------  
    Note: New archive site is gdead.berkeley.edu (128.32.213.24)

    For those who don't know, gdead.berkeley.edu is an anonymous
    ftp site for Dead-related stuff.  Just "ftp gdead.berkeley.edu"
    and use "anonymous" as a user name.  Help is avalible with the 
    "help" command.

    no ftp access:  email ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com, help as message body.

    There are a few things you should know if you have never anonymous
    ftp(ed) before.  First, in order for you to access the ftp site
    you must be on the internet; I assume you are.  Second, your site
    must be using the name server (which comes with the internet feed).
    Third, you must be familiar with anonymous ftp procedures.  I'll
    address each of these concerns.

    Note: This session was done ftp'ing the old archive site.  I've kept
    it in and changed the appropriate addresses because it's an example of
    a FTP session done with UNIX-based equipment.  I additionally added
    a session I had with the new site from a VAX below. As always, email
    any corrections or suggestions, bs810@cleveland.freenet.edu

    Assuming you are on the internet you should not have any problems 
    getting through to gdead.berkeley.edu. I am not sure of the
    situation of people with pc-modem packages, that is to say I don't
    know where they get the dead_flames feed from or how they do connect
    into the internet (so I can't really help these people.) However
    being on a ...com (or .edu) address you should be "dialed in dude" :)

    Anyway if your site is not running the name server you will have to
    give the literal IP address for gdead.berkeley.edu. A name
    server is a bit of software that automagically looks up the IP
    address associated with the name of the computer you are trying to
    send mail to, or connect to. The other thing to keep in mind is the
    type of equipment both sites are using.  Ideally both computers will
    be UNIX machines. ftp is a UNIX thing, and who knows what to do if you
    aren't on a UNIX box. [It all works about the same on VAX/VMS, though
    you may have to type in >user< to get the Name prompt:] The following 
    insert is a file transfer protcol (ftp) session I had with 
    gdead.berkeley.edu where I logged in and sent a file back to my own 
    machine.  Note everything inside the >< is what I typed in response to 
    the prompts.  Don't actually type in the >< when you use this as an 
    example.

    Anything inside the () are comments to help you understand.
    Hope this helps. Also I'm assuming most people reading this far are
    complete novices at this, so this is why I'm explaining in such detail.

(session begins.)
(If this does not work you will have to try the IP address number for the machine.)
(try typing >ftp 128.32.213.24<)
Connected to gdead.berkeley.EDU.
220 ??? FTP server (Version 4.1 Tue Apr 10 05:15:32 PDT 1990) ready.
Name (gdead.berkeley.edu:mpg): >anonymous<
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:>(type in your login name here e.g. mpg Your typing will not appear on screen)<
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> >ls<
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
bin
etc
init
lost+found
pub
shlib
226 Transfer complete.
47 bytes received in 8e-06 seconds (5.7e+03 Kbytes/s)
ftp> >cd pub<
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> >cd gdead<
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> >ls<
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
ps
stakodead
tape-lists
tape-lists-drop-box
226 Transfer complete.
48 bytes received in 5e-06 seconds (9.4e+03 Kbytes/s)
ftp> >cd ps<
(you can cd to any of the four directories listed above.)
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> >ls<
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
AirJerry.ps
Jerry-Magic-full-page.ps
Jerry-Magic-quarter-page.ps
Jerry-Magic-sixteenth-page.ps
Jerry-and-Bob-characature.ps
Young-Jerry-full-page.ps
Young-Jerry-tenth-page.ps
club.ps
misc-dead-graphic.ps
nethead.90.ps
226 Transfer complete.
228 bytes received in 1.1e-05 seconds (2e+04 Kbytes/s)
ftp> >binary<
(binary transfer mode should be used for sending files.)
200 Type set to I.
ftp> >get misc-dead-graphic.ps<
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for misc-dead-graphic.ps (53540 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: misc-dead-graphic.ps remote: misc-dead-graphic.ps
53540 bytes received in 22 seconds (2.4 Kbytes/s)
ftp> >quit<
221 Goodbye.

(end session)

To submit something for installation on gdead.berkeley.edu:

1.  cd /pub/gdead/drop-box

2.  put "file-name" (where "file-name" is the name of the file on your
                     system containing what you want to submit)

Thanx to Richard Langston for keepin' the archives for awhile and, I believe,
creating this sample session.  


Well, that's the way it was, and it should all pretty much work the 
same way at gdead.berkeley.edu
I've left that all in because it's an example of a UNIX-based machine 
talking to the site.  Here's a session I had with the berkeley site using
a VAX, all the conventions are the same, xcept stuff inside [] is stuff you 
should type without the [] and then hit a carriage return, anything inside 
() are notes...and i used dir instead of ls to get the listing of 
files/directories...they are usu. interchangeable..

[ftp gdead.berkeley.edu]
xxx.xxx.xxx Multinet FTP user process 3.1 3.1(105)
Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections)
<nemesis.Berkeley.EDU FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready.
NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[user] (type in user to get the username prompt)
  Foreign username: [anonymous]
<Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: [bs810] (type in your userid, it wont show up on screen)
<Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[dir]
<ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (IP number,port) (0 bytes).
total 4
d--------- 5 0       daemon       512 Nov  2 11:10 ...old
d--x--x--x 2 0       wheel        512 Jun 12  1989 bin
d--x--x--x 2 0       wheel        512 Jun 12  1989 etc
d--x--x--x 5 ftp     wheel        512 Nov  2 11:10 pub
<ASCII Transfer complete.
NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[cd pub]
<CWD command successful.
NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[dir]
<ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (IP number,port) (0 bytes).
total 3
drwxr-xr-x 19 0       daemon     512 Oct 28 08:51 gdead
drwx-wx-wx  2 ftp     daemon     512 Nov  2 11:10 incoming
dr-xr-xr-x  2 ftp     daemon     512 Nov  2 11:31 sun4_cad
<ASCII Transfer complete.
NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[cd gdead]
<CWD command successful.
NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[dir]
<ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (IP number,port) (0 bytes).
total 18
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  .NextTrash
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  README
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  dead-hours
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  drop-box
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  graphics
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  ibm
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  interviews
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  lyrics
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  mac
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  miscellaneous
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  music
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  set-lists
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  site-layouts
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  sounds
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  stats
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  tape-labels
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  tape-lists
(blah blah blah blah)                 (dates)  tape-trees
<ASCII Transfer complete.
NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[get README]
  To local file: [readme.txt]
<ASCII data connection for README (IP #,port) (63 bytes).
<ASCII Transfer complete.
NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU>[quit]
<Goodbye.
(session ends)


Additional notes: it would've been alot easier to type all this in if I'd
of used ls instead of dir to see what's there..same diff, and you should type
binary at the NEMESIS.BERKELEY.EDU> prompt before downloading most if not 
all files...hope this helps...email me if i've messed anything up here, and
the README file says: 

Questions and comments may be directed to: kraitch@Berkeley.EDU

P.S. typing cd.. at the prompt will get you back up a directory level.
Also, incoming submissions to gdead.Berkeley.EDU may be left in
/pub/incoming or /pub/gdead/drop-box 

There is also some stuff available at ftp.apple.com in pub/gdeadstuff


17) Whatever happened to Owsley?
    ----------------------------
    He can often be found backstage selling interesting, expensive jewelry.
    If you meet him outside you could always talk to him and ask him
    yourself.  An interview with Bear appears in David Gans' book,
    CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD.


18) What are mailing lists and how do I subscribe to them?
    ------------------------------------------------------
    Mailing lists are for people who do not have regular net access,
    or wish to concentrate on a specific topic.  The mailings on each
    topic are collected in groups and then mailed to you, usually
    containing anywhere from 10-20 messages each.  The difference is
    that mailing lists are not interactive as the newsboards.  If
    you have only email access and not news access, the mailing list
    is the only way to receive rec.music.gdead.
	
    Dead-Flames is a digestified version of rec.music.gdead, and
    Dead-Heads is a low-volume "important-info-only" list (tickets/setlists
    mainly).  

    If you'd like to subscribe to any of the lists, here are their   
    addresses.  For each list choose only ONE address:

    Internet: Dead-Flames-Request@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU
              Dead-Flames-Request%fuggles.acc@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU
    BITNET:   DF-Req@VIRGINIA
    UUCP:     ...!uunet!virginia!dead-flames-request

    Internet: Dead-Heads-Request@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU
              Dead-Heads-Request%fuggles.acc@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU
    BITNET:   DH-Req@VIRGINIA
    UUCP:     ...!uunet!virginia!dead-heads-request

    Internet: DAT-Heads-Request@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU
              DAT-Heads-Request%fuggles.acc@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU
    BITNET:   DATH-Req@VIRGINIA
    UUCP:     ...!uunet!virginia!dat-heads-request

    Internet: Tape-Heads-Request@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU
              Tape-Heads-Request%fuggles.acc@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU
    BITNET:   TH-Req@VIRGINIA
    UUCP:     ...!uunet!virginia!tape-heads-request

    Internet: Hot-Tuna-Request@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU
              Hot-Tuna-Request%fuggles.acc@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU
    BITNET:   HT-Req@VIRGINIA
    UUCP:     ...!uunet!virginia!hot-tuna-request

    Internet: Boston-Music-Request@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU
              Boston-Music-Request%fuggles.acc@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU
    BITNET:   BM-Req@VIRGINIA
    UUCP:     ...!uunet!virginia!boston-music-request


19) Upcoming confirmed tour dates.
    ------------------------------
    
    December 2,3, 1992 Mcnichols Arena, Denver CO =Sold Out
    December 5,6, 1992 Compton Terrace, Phoenix AZ Tix at Dillard's Nov. 7.
    December 11,12,13  Oakland Coliseum, CA mail-order over
    December 16,17     Oakland Coliseum, CA -Series II 1st mail-in Nov.2

    Tickets for the Oakland shows are supposed to go on sale at BASS on
    Nov. 22, assuming they are not all sold through mail order.

20) Is it OK to post rumors?
    ------------------------
    It depends who you ask.  If you do post rumors, they should be
    clearly labelled as such.  Be prepared to take some flack, especially
    if you attempt to say things about the bandmembers' personal lives.


21) What are some topics that have caused "flame wars" in the past?  
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
	The Porsche Guy.
	Seat-scamming at shows.
	People yelling and acting obnoxious during songs.
	"Miracle ticket" seekers.
	Gate crashing at shows.
	Personal rumors about GD band members.
	Sexism in Dead lyrics.
	Personal messages (intended from one to another) posted to the net.
	Violence at Dead shows.
	Security at given venues.
	Vendors who are there to vend, and *not* to attend shows.
	Police brutality and their anti-Deadhead prejudices.
	Articles that unfairly bash the Dead and Deadheads.
	Don't call us CHICKS! We are women.
	Old Heads vs. Young Heads.
	Deader Than Thou.
	Using "Touchhead" as a demeaning term.	
	Quoting X lines to say "me too" where X > 20.
	Debates on the splitting of rec.music.gdead.
	Telling Dead-Flames digest readers to just hit "n".
	Anything that challenges the "Politically Correct Deadhead
	  	Thinking" as espoused on rec.music.gdead.	
	"F*ck You All"
	Forged postings.
        Neil Diamond and the Diamondbacks

For all the general randomness on the Net, one of the more consistent
things you see if you watch long enough is the annual Posting of the 
FlameBait.  The way it usu. works is that somewhere around the time a new 
college semester starts, an inflammatory posting will appear on the net.  
It is usually (but not always) a hateful attack on one branch of the human 
race or another, and/or based on linking some undesirable trait
or behavior with some outward appearance.  It could simply
be a statement designed to attack the icons of a given subculture.
Or it can accuse the members of a subculture of a multitude of heinous 
acts.  It is usually (but not always) cross posted to many different 
newsgroups.

The posting can be recognized easily enough, but it generally engenders 
three types of response.  The first is a plea to ignore the original
posting.  The second type is an outraged counter attack.  The third
an outraged counter argument.  Usually each response quotes 
most of the text of the initial post.  In the course of a couple weeks
the original post will have been repeated dozens of times, wasting alot of
time, energy and material.  Uncountable thousands of dollars worth of
hardware and software and net.bandwidth are sucked up and consumed.

THE WAY TO HANDLE FLAMEBAIT: Ignore it!  If for some reason the FlameBait
is too horrible to stand, then use private Email.  If you have to spend 
your time attacking or rebutting some fool, it is best done (like many 
things) in private.  Email to postmaster@hostname and tell her about
this horrible person abusing the tender ears in cyberspace.  Some
sys-admins are actually pretty good about these matters, and can get 
to the source of the problem efficiently.

EXERCISE SOME CARE : Also remember, there are a large number of techno-
freaks out there who spend hours figuring out how to crack accounts, and
some percentage of them will then post some screed to a network from the 
cracked account.  You may be spending hours of your life responding to 
these horrible mad ravings, to a person who *didn't* *do* *it* in the
first place.  Ask yourself if it is a worthwhile way to spend your time
and energy.

		[contributed by Frank Caherty:  caherty@wizard.nrl.navy.mil
		 edited by John J. Wood:  jojw@uhura.cc.rochester.edu]

23) What should I do if I see a post from Jerry, Bob, Phil, etc.?
    -------------------------------------------------------------

Ignore it.  There have been bogus postings in the past purporting to be
from members of the band, but none of the band members post here.  The only
people who validly post to rec.music.gdead that are remotely related to the
band are David Gans and John Perry Barlow.

24) What is Stak-O-Dead and where can I get one? 
    --------------------------------------------              

It's a Hypercard GD database, with setlists, lyrics, etc. from
'74 to about '90. It also has some good graphics, tape label makin'
capabilities and some great sound-bites. Allen Baum's been away for a 
while, and the author (John Gilbert) seems to be off the net, so it 
hasn't been updated for a while. Allen promises to update it when he
gets back to the US permanently, but until then we're on our own with
where it is now.  Its a great little utility if ya got the hardware and
software, most handy for when Deadbase isn't around or ya need to paste
on a skeleton here or there, among other things.

It's available via anonymous ftp from ftp.apple.com in pub/gdeadstuff/stakodead
and is also on the dead archive at gdead.berkeley.edu in pub/gdead/mac.

       [Thanx to the mysterious individual who created this FAQ, 
              and John J. Wood for keeping it going. Additional
                 editing by Eric Nay: bs810@cleveland.freenet.edu]

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