From: jerod23@well.sf.ca.us (Jerod Pore)
Subject: FactSheet Five - Electric subscriptions
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:16:51 GMT


This article is Shareright 1992.  Please, please repost to newsgroups you
feel could benefit from this information, BBSs that cater to people
interested in the small-press, and *your* zines be they based on paper
or magic magnetic media.


FactSheet Five - Electric is about to be available on a subscription basis.

The subscription service will come in two flavors:  "issue" and "update".  
You may subscribe to either or both services.  

With the update flavor you will receive F5-E files as they become available.
Update files may contain reviews of zines that are grouped together 
as a category, such as music zines.  Then again, update files may contain 
reviews of zines that we recently received and reviewed.  Several files may
be received at once with an update-flavored subscription, it all just
depends.  We are planning on sending out the update subscriptions from
a site at Ann Arbor, MI.

With the issue flavor you will receive twenty to thirty files all at once.
As I understand the workings of the mass-mailing shell script, each file
will be a discrete piece of mail, with the file name as the subject of the
letter.  The sender's address will, I hope, be something meaningful like
factsheet5@well.sf.ca.us   Whatever the account name is, it WILL NOT be
a valid account to which to send mail.  As always, the email address for
FactSheet Five - Electric is jerod23@well.sf.ca.us
As the issues will be mailed as many discrete files, there is some hope for
those of you at sites with mailer daemons who puke at large files.  Many
files will get through, but some (like the zine reviews from _MRR_, the 
Queer Zine Explosion from _Holy Titclamps_ and the miscellaneous file)
may be undeliverable to some sites.

With either service, you may NOT pick and choose categories of zine reviews 
to receive.  That is an option for those with ftp.  However, as I hope to
use somewhat meaningful file names, and hence the subjects of the letters,
you could just trash the files you don't want to read.

To subscribe to either (or both) services, email jerod23@well.sf.ca.us
An empty letter with a subject of "Subscribe issue" "Subscribe update"
or "Subscribe both" will be the most helpful way of requesting these
services.  However, their is a question with the issue flavor.  I'll need
to know if you want the exisiting "issue" of F5-E, or if you wish to start
with the next issue.  If your letter is empty or unclear, I'll start you
with the EXISTING issue.  I'll be away Thanksgiving week, letting my mailbox 
*get stuffed* with your requests for subs.  I'll answer any questions 
and such, but you'll have to be patient. 

The services will begin operation sometime in December, 1992.  We have a
couple of new files, so "update" subscribers will be getting something for
Xmas just like the new "issue" subscribers.

The above information will be included in our info (a.k.a. FAQ) file.  All
inquiries regarding FactSheet Five - Electric should be directed to me.
Inquiries regarding the *printed* version of Factsheet Five should be
directed to sethf5@well.sf.ca.us

Happy reading!

Jerod

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