From: Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews)
Newsgroups: rec.nude
Subject: Yet another FAQ
Date: 20 Nov 1992 06:04:48 GMT
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I have finally finished sorting through a quarter megabyte of text
files and produced the first draft of the new "Nude Beaches Etc. FAQ"
to supplement Steve Pierce's existing FAQs.  I will post this draft in
2 parts soon after posting this article.  My purpose here is to solicit
comments on these drafts and provide some explanation.

First, I would like to thank Steve Pierce and the people too numerous to
list who provided the input which was the basis for this new FAQ.  Your
contributions are what really made this FAQ possible.

Next, I need to make it clear that I have no personal experience with
almost all of the locations listed in this new FAQ.  I seriously need
help from all of you to ensure accuracy of what I have presented.  Any
updates on any entry in the FAQ would be greatly appreciated.  Even
if your update is only to tell me that the price hasn't changed where
I noted that a parking price I quote is 2 years old, that helps.

One thing this FAQ can't be is a replacement for sources such as the
World Guide.  The goal is to provide info on those locations discussed
often enough to warrant a "canned" description to rec.nude readers.  A
secondary goal is to show newbies that CO locales can be found all over
the place; so if you don't see it in the FAQ, ask the net if you might
have one "right in your backyard."

A big problem was deciding which spots to include in the FAQ and which
to leave out.  I felt uncomfortable listing commercial locations because
I didn't want the FAQ to be an advertisement for them (or for their
competition;-).  I therefore left out many interesting locations such
as the resorts in Jamaica, not to mention many good landed clubs in
the U.S.  If the rec.nude readership would rather that these spots be
included, I will defer to such a consensus.

I went a little bit beyond just providing info on the half dozen locations
most commonly mentioned on rec.nude.  I included entries on less commonly
discussed spots if they are in parts of the country which are commonly
discussed (namely, California) or if they were so far from anything
else mentioned that they helped provide more uniform coverage of the
whole country.  Opinions on entries I included which should be dropped
or entries which need to be added are very welcome.

This initial draft of the FAQ shows a distinct bias towards California
(in fact, its two parts are "California" and "not California").  There
are a number of reasons for this, some good some bad.
	1. I'm from California, so I may just be showing my own bias.
	2. Silicon Valley dominates Usenet, and those who don't live here
	   are likely to visit here; thus we really do see questions about
	   California asked more frequently.
	3. We have lots of good beaches.
I really would like to see the FAQ provide less spotty coverage of
the rest of the country.  Send in those entries.

The FAQ is sorely lacking anything outside of North America, Little
Beach in Hawaii being the only such location.  For that matter, only
3 spots listed are outside the contiguous 48 states.  Should we have
more entries from elsewhere?  Given the low demand on the net for
sites in Europe, Australia, etc., do these belong in the FAQ?  If we
don't cover those areas, should we use "Distribution: na" for the FAQ
(or do non-North-Americans want to hear what we have to offer)?  If we
do decide to list locales from all around the world, we could have one
volume of the FAQ for each continent; in such case I already have one
written:
	ANTARCTICA: The only totally clothing-optional continent.  Of
	course, you will probably opt for clothes.  :-)

    Richard M. Mathews			 Freedom for Lithuania
Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM		        Laisve!
Newsgroups: rec.nude