Alt.startrek.creative

alt.startrek.creative (ASC) is a usenet group that was created for the purpose of posting of fiction based in the Star Trek Universe.
A related site was alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated.
In 2002, a fan wrote: 
 
== History ==
From 2006: 
==Fandom Migration, Access, Visibility, and Gatekeeping==
Usenet and alt.startrek.creative, and later, alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated, were elements of a large fandom migration.
As technology and fandom changed, so did communities; alt.startrek.creative were fandom disrupters in both good and bad ways. 
The print fan community found online newsgroups and communities to be exciting, frightening, exuberant, and both welcoming and unwelcoming. Some print zine fans embraced this new electronic world, some were indifferent, and others avoided it. 
For fans on newsgroups, it was often their first contact with other Star Trek fans, yet despite their newly-forged connections, their interest and activity in print zine fandom was often very little, none, dismissive, or hostile. 
Some fans spanned the bridge between the two, but many remained solidly in their own camps. One example of the tensions created when two communities was between the print fans who congregated in The K/S Press and alt.startrek.creative and alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated. Things got very heated on both sides; BNFs in both communities actively promoted their way of fandom, campaigning and "educating" others in attempts to bolster their numbers. 
Print fans felt that online fans threatened their existence as there were only enough fans and fanworks to go around. Print fans also felt impatience with online fans who they felt did not respect those who had gone before and forged a harder path, as well as their tendency to think they'd thought of things first and reinvented wheels that print fans had done a long time ago. Online fans tended to view print fans as rigid and out-of-date, conservative, stodgy scolds. Both "sides" added plenty of fuel to the fires, and campaigned for the hearts and minds of what they both saw as the future of fandom. see I feel the need to say again how important K/S print zines are. (1998) by Shelley Butler (April 1999) see COCO CHANNEL Interview with Judith Gran (September 1999) 
See much more at Feral Fans and The K/S Netfan-Printzine Fan Wars. 
Slash and adult fanworks and visibility complicated things. See alt.startrek.creative Slash Wars.
From a print fan in 1997, alt.startrek.creative was an eye-opener: 
Sandy Herrold wrote in February 1997 about her experience at the 1996 Escapade convention: 
From a fan in February 1997: 
In March 1997, a print zine fan wrote: 
From a fan in April 1997: 
From a fan in early 1998: 
In 2002, a fan wrote about the cyclical nature of new fans, access, and gatekeeping:
== Current Staff ==
* Stephen Ratliff - FAQ Maintainer, Status of Stories: Backup
* Katie Redshoes - Archivist
* Ian Toldman - Assistant Formatter
* Rocky - Status of Stories: The Original Series
* Keroth - Status of Stories: The Next Generation, Status of Stories: Enterprise, Status of Stories: MIS
* Seema - Status of Stories: Voyager
* Gabrielle - Status of Stories: Deep Space Nine
== Previous Staff ==
Past staff and members of ASC.
=== Archivist ===
* Joseph Young - (1990-1995) Maintain a ftp archive until April 2005 when he gave up his position, FAQ Maintainer's Notes: Second Year on the Job, February 1, 1997. (Accessed October 10, 2008)
* Alara Rogers - (1995 - 1998)
* Dina L. - (1998-2000)
=== FAQ Maintainer ===
* Stephen Young - (1995-1998)
* Melissa Koehn - Backup Maintainer (1997)
* J Winter - Backup Maintainer (1998-2000)
* Kattz - Backup Maintainer (2000-2001)
=== Status of Stories ===
* Sarah Goose, SOS: MIS sometime between 2000-2004
* Sasscatt, SOS:TOS 
* Tasha Simonova, SOS:TNG 
* Gabrielle Lawson, SOS:DS9 
* Jamelia, SOS:VOY, SOS: MIS 2000, not sure of else
== External links ==
* ASC FAQ
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== References ==
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