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** Guidelines for the The Young Riders Fiction Onelist ** 
(last updated 11 August 1999 - recent changes are marked by asterisks 
in the first column) 
 
1. Fiction! (poetry welcome, too) 
 
TYRFiction, as the name implies, is for The Young Riders the sharing of 
fan-written fiction. Narrative prose is the most popular format, 
but scripts, poems, songs or whatever are welcome, as long as 
they relate to The Young Riders. 
 
Anything that's not a story should be posted with the DISCUSS 
topic (See below for instructions on how to use TOPICS). 
 
If you wish to comment on a story, TYRFiction is set to go back to the 
list. So becareful of what you say. If you want to say something negative,
 
please email the author privately. 
 
I would perfer you to send your stories this way, 
Cut and paste text into your e-mail program. If it's too long to 
be cut and pasted, then it's TOO LONG, and needs to be broken up 
into sections. If it's not text, then it should NOT be going to 
the TYRFiction. 
 
But if you *have* to send "attachments" then, 
Send "attachments" to the TYRFiction mailing 
list in .txt format. Some people may get it intact, but most people
will 
NOT. Most people will simply get 95K of gibberish. 
We suggest that story posts be no more than 350 lines each out of 
consideration for subscribers with mail programs that limit the 
size of incoming mail messages. 
 
For info on getting past stories or sections of stories, get the 
retrieval instructions from Stacie DeShazer at LdyLander1@... 
 
All stories (up to but not including the current month) posted 
since the inception of TYRFiction are archived 
http://www.onelist.com/community/TYRFiction 
 
2. Standard disclaimers 
 
3. Story segment length 
 
Due to the limitations of mailers on certain popular commercial 
services we ask that you limit each story segment to 350 lines. 
 
4. NO REPOSTS (only revisions)! 
 
All post are automatically archived. Please do not repost. Rewrites 
or other major revisions are ok, but if there aren't any changes, 
or changes are very minor, PLEASE DON'T repost it. If you post a 
rewrite of something you've posted before, please put "revised" or 
"rewrite" or something like that in the subject line of each 
section. When you post a revision please post all story parts, 
not just what changed. 
 
 
5. PLEASE LIMIT yourself to no more than 10 story posts per story a 
day. 
 
Posting all of a 35 part story is sure to break the 
email limit for a majority of our subscribers. (If you need to post 
more than 10 parts 
Please ask Stacie (LdyLander1@...) first.) 
 
 
6. Subject line - Do's and Don'ts 
 
Please do not put comments on the subject line. Please number 
your story parts and include the total number if you know what 
it's going to be. Part numbers should always be at the end of the 
line. Please use arabic numbers (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0). Don't 
use roman numerals or spell out story part numbers Examples of 
subject lines: 
Hounds of Glory 4 of 15 
Hounds of Glory 04-15 
Hounds of Glory (4/15) 
 
If you are posting a story for someone else be sure to include 
that person's name and email address (if available) in the top of 
each story part. 
 
7. Label sex, violence, and language 
 
Some of our readers may be offened by certain topics one of these 
topics may be 
the ADULT topic. Stories containing explicit sex, graphic 
violence,or profanity worse than what would be in a PG-13 movie 
are acceptable for posting, but you must put 'ADULT: at the very 
beginning of the Subject line of each post of a story part. Also 
include a warning at the top of the story explaining why the 
story needs the ADULT classification. If you're posting your story in 
parts, you must put 'ADULT:' in the subject line of EACH and EVERY 
part and put a warning at 
the top of EACH and EVERY part IRREGARDLESS of whether that 
particular part has any ADULT material. (It's just frustrating to some
 
people to get caught up in a story and it turn out to have some material init
 
that may offend you.) 
 
 
8. TOPICS 
 
ADULT - to be used for all posts that include material that 
would exceed the PG-13 movie rating. 
 
XOVER - to be used for all posts that involve crossing the 
The Young Riders universe with other fandom universes, such 
as Highlander, Star Trek, Forever Knight, X Files, etc. 
 
ADULTXOVER - to be used for all XOVER posts that include material 
that would exceed the PG-13 movie rating (see above for 
XOVER definition). 
 
ROUND - This is a very special topic to be used only when there 
is a properly authorized and sanctioned round-robin 
fiction in progress on TYRFiction. If and when we have 
one of these all current subscribers will be given advance 
notice. 
 
DISCUSS - To be used to discuss The Young Riders fanfic, comments about 
someone's work, fanfic techniques, and announcing 
FANZINES, and anything of a non-fiction nature. -ALL- 
non-fiction posts should be posted with this TOPIC. Again, if
 
you have something negative to say, please say it privately by responding to
 
the person in private email. And be nice about it!!! 
 
TEST - If you desire to test your story posts for 
the quoted-printable problem (all those stupid '=' 
littered all over your story). Please list as TEST. 
 
Other - a catch-all topic for all FICTION posts that don't fall 
under any of the above classifications. 
 
ADMIN: This is a comand that only administration can use. If you see
 
this topic, *read* it. It's immportant. I will send this out this post once
 
in a while to make sure that everyone has a copy. Please read it, to refresh
 
yourself with our guidelines. I will add changes as I see fit. 
 
==== -ALL- non-fiction posts should be posted with the DISCUSS topic. ==== 
 
 
Posting using TOPICS 
 
If your story qualifies for one of the above TOPICS (except the 
'Other' topic) when you post each story part you should put the 
appropriate TOPIC followed by a colon(:) and a space at the very 
first of your Subject line. For example: 
 
Subject: ADULT: Shall We Dance? (1/14) 
 
I included 'Subject:' as an example. Different mailers may call 
it different things. It is simply the title of your posts. You 
shouldn't put 'Subject:' in the title of your posts. 
 
NOTE: Posts that fall under the scope of more than one TOPIC - 
You can mark a post with more than one topic. Everything before 
the colon (after 'Re:' have been discarded) is evaluated for 
possible topics so you can specify more than one topic by 
separating the topics by a comma. Here's an example of a multiple 
TOPIC post: 
 
Subject: ADULT,XOVER: The Immoral Game 
 
 
9. Formatting suggestions 
 
These are suggestions to help make your stories more readable. 
These are NOT rules. Most of these suggestions are applicable 
to any type of post to any electronic mailing list or newsgroup. 
They are included here because the problems caused by poor 
formatting are compounded in a story type post where you want the 
reader to closely follow what you're saying instead of merely 
scanning over it. 
 
One of the most important things to remember in this electronic 
media is you _must_ pay close attention to making your stories 
readable. The following suggestions should help. 
 
(a) Don't use special characters. 
 
Please don't use special characters such as combining regular 
characters with umlaut/dieresis, circumflex, grave, acute 
accents, right and left double-quotes. Only use ASCII 
characters! If your mail program is MIME-capable it will 
translate your posts to ASCII with control characters which are 
very difficult to read with a mail program that is not 
MIME-capable. IF you are using Microsoft Mail, turn you MIME 
option OFF before posting. 
 
 
(b) Single space everything!! 
 
Double spaced text is extremely difficult to read on a computer 
screen, and can unnecessarily cost readers money for various 
reasons (charges for mail based on size, printer charges, etc.). 
Leave a blank line between paragraphs, but within paragraphs, 
please single space! 
 
(c) Left justify everything! 
 
Like double spaced text, fully justified text is very difficult to 
read on a computer screen. 
 
(d) Don't hyphenate words to break a too-long line. 
 
As with double spacing and full justification, hyphenated words are 
much more difficult to read on a computer screen than on paper. If 
you have a long word that won't fit on the line, just let that line 
be short, and take the word to the next line. 
This also applies to e-mail addresses. If an address is too long 
to fit on one line, it's somewhat common to split it at @ ., but 
it's really preferable put the whole thing on a new line. 
 
(e) Limit your Line length 
 
Ideally, each line of text should be NO MORE THAN 72 characters. 
It makes things much easier to read and the lines don't break 
funny (full line, one word, full line, two words) when your story 
hits our mailbox. Also, MIME-capable mailers will translate your 
post into a message with equal signs (=) or (=20) at the end of 
all the too line lines. It makes a very ugly mess on this end. 
Not to mention (again) that shorter lines makes your prose 
much,much more readable. Our eyes are trained to be comfortable 
with white space, look at the borders on a page in a book. The 
more readable your story appears then it will be less likely 
that someone will put it down before you (the author) has 
managed to capture another victim, Er, reader. 
Be particularly careful if you type a story in a PC or MAC word 
processor (such as MS-Word) and upload it for posting. If not 
saved properly, your paragraphs may be saved as single lines, 
causing the over 80 characters per line problem in a big way. 
'Textedit', the default editor on Suns is -notorious- for not 
putting hard returns at the end of lines. You -must- put them in 
yourself. 
 
(f) the TAB key 
Avoid the TAB key. Different systems treat tab characters 
differently, which can cause very strange, and undesirable, results 
on different computers. If you want to indent or center something, 
use spaces instead of tabs. 
Many people avoid this problem entirely by not indenting anything. 
 
(g) Quotes 
 
To indicate that a character is thinking something, rather than 
speaking, you might want to consider using something other than 
standard double-quotes ("). Many people use single-quotes ('), 
asterisks (*), or angle brackets (<> or ><). 
 
(h) New speakers 
 
There is an extremely important, but often ignored, grammatical 
rule that whenever a different person starts speaking (or thinking) 
something, you start a new paragraph. 
 
(i) Check spelling & grammar 
 
This one is pretty basic. Poor spelling and/or grammar makes 
things very difficult to read and can alienate your audience. 
Please, Please, if you have a spell-checker program USE it. 
 
(j) Electronic writing conventions 
 
Since we're using only letters, numbers, and the more basic special 
characters to write things for the lists, certain conventions have 
evolved to help get around that. 
To emphasize a word that would normally be italicized, put 
*asterisks* around it. 
To indicate underlining, put an _underscore_ before and after the 
word/phrase. 
And, most importantly, don't yell unless you mean to. TYPING IN 
ALL CAPS IS THE WRITTEN EQUIVALENT OF YELLING AND IS VERY ANNOYING, 
AS WELL AS DIFFICULT TO READ. 
 
 
10.OTHER 
 
To Subscribe go to http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/TYRFiction or 
send a message to Stacie (LdyLander1@...) 
 
To change your subscription options to stop receiving the list of a 
period of time (i.e. for a vacation or finals week): Send a message to 
Stacie (LdyLander@...) or go to the http://www.onelist.com/ and mark the
 
no-mail box for TYRFiction. To start recieving mail again from TYRFiction 
then repeat procedure. 
 
To change your subscription options to receive the list in a daily 
digest: send mail to Stacie (LdyLander1@...) or 
go to http://www.onelist.com and click on the digest box. To stop recieving
 
digests repeat prodcedure. 
 
To Unsubscribe: send mail to Stacie (LdyLander1@...) or go to 
http://www.onelist.com/ and click onthe unsubscribe box. 
 
Note: DO NOT send mail to the list to unsubscribe. 
 
It may seem that your unsubscribe didn't take effect because you are 
still 
getting posts. There is probably a backlog of messages in TYRFiction's 
queue that were posted before you sent the unsubscribe command. Those 
will 
continue to come until it gets to the timestamp when you unsubscribed. 
This can take several hours or might even take up to 24 depending on 
how backed up everything is. 
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
Stacie DeShazer 
(List Owner) 
StacieMairi@... 
 
 
All past posts can be found at
http://www.onelist.com/listcenter.cgi?listname=TYRFiction&yy=36325 
 
Thanks, 
Stacie 
"List Mommy" 
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