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- <h1 align=center><a name="TOP">Lurker's Guide Help and FAQs</a></h1>
-
- <p>
- <b>See Also:</b>
- <a href="/lurk/ftp/babylon-5-faq">[Babylon 5 FAQ]</a> -
- <a href="/lurk/toc.html">[Table of Contents]</a>
-
- <p>
- This document answers the most common questions I see in my capacity as
- maintainer of the Lurker's Guide. Before you send me mail, have a look
- at this list and see if your question is answered -- it'll save you the
- delay of waiting for my response (and if I'm busy, I might not reply to
- questions that're answered here.)
-
- <ul>
- <li> <a href="#fanclubsite">I can't get to the fan club site. Help!</a>
- <li> About the Guide
- <ul>
- <li> <a href="#general">General information</a>
- <li> <a href="#authors">About the authors</a>
- <li> <a href="#about-jms">Who's JMS talking to?</a>
- <li> <a href="#notyet">Why isn't the guide page/synopsis/credits page
- filled in for episode X yet?</a>
- <li> <a href="#awards">Awards and accolades</a>
- <li> <a href="#link">Linking to the Guide</a>
- <li> <a href="#forward">Why aren't there links to the episodes that
- answer the unanswered questions on the guide pages?</a>
- <li> <a href="#dates">Why are there dates next to some of the
- entries on the guide pages?</a>
- <li> <a href="#nodates">Why aren't there any recent dates on a guide
- page that was recently changed?</a>
- <li> <a href="#mirror">I want to mirror the Guide. How do I
- do it?</a>
- <li> <a href="#crusade">Will the Lurker's Guide cover</a>
- <a href="/lurk/guide/113.html">"Crusade?"</a>
- <li> <a href="#amazon">Why are there links to Amazon.com all
- over?</a>
- </ul>
- <li> Can you tell me...
- <ul>
- <li> <a href="#video">where to find episodes on video?</a>
- <li> <a href="#rerun">when older episodes will be rerun?</a>
- <li> <a href="#restart">when B5 will start (or resume) in my
- country?</a>
- <li> <a href="#items">when the next episode/novel/comic/toy/etc.
- will be out?</a>
- <li> <a href="#stations">where and when B5 is on in my area?</a>
- <li> <a href="#future">what will happen to the show after the
- five-year storyline is finished?</a>
- <li> <a href="#font">where to get the font Babylon 5 uses?</a>
- </ul>
- <li> Why don't you have...
- <ul>
- <li> <a href="#pics">more pictures?</a>
- <li> <a href="#sounds">sound clips?</a>
- <li> <a href="#videoclips">video clips?</a>
- <li> <a href="#bios">bios on characters, more background, etc.?</a>
- <li> <a href="#old">complete guide pages for older episodes?</a>
- <li> <a href="#download">a downloadable copy of the whole Guide?</a>
- <li> <a href="#modified">a page that lists the modification times
- of all the guide pages?</a>
- </ul>
- <li> How do I...
- <ul>
- <li> <a href="#HT-current">add "This Week's Episode" to my hotlist?</a>
- <li> <a href="#HT-jms">send mail to JMS?</a>
- </ul>
-
- </ul>
-
- <hr size=6>
- <h2><a name="about">About the Guide</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="general">General information</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- The Lurker's Guide is a volunteer effort encompassing documents maintained
- by many <cite>Babylon 5</cite> fans, as well as a lot of original material
- not found elsewhere. It's not associated in any kind of official way with
- the show (but thanks for thinking so!)
-
- <p>
- It started off before the airing of the
- <a href="guide/000.html">pilot movie</a>
- as a simple HTMLized version of the
- <a href="/lurk/ftp/babylon-5-faq">Babylon 5 Frequently
- Asked Questions List,</a>
- and in fact a lot of the FAQ List's text can still be found here.
- Once the series began airing, maintaining a huge monolithic document became
- impractical, and the Lurker's Guide was born.
-
- <p>
- The main thing you'll find in the Guide that didn't originate elsewhere
- is the extensive
- <a href="episodes.php">episode list</a>
- with several pages for each episode. Each episode has a "guide page,"
- with some generic, non-spoiler information (guest stars, airdate, brief
- description) at the top and spoilers below a dividing line. From the
- guide page you can jump to a synopsis, the credits, and so forth.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="authors">About the authors</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- <a href="http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/">Steven Grimm</a>
- is more or less the editor-in-chief of the Guide, pulling together all the
- pieces and doing some of the writing himself. But most of the credit goes
- to the Guide's many contributors, who include: (<em>not</em> a complete list)
-
- <p>
- <ul>
- <li> <a href="mailto:shawn.bayern@yale.edu">Shawn Bayern</a> - first-season
- synopses
- <li> <a href="mailto:kat@midwinter.com">Katrina Glerum</a> - background
- summaries
- <li> <a href="mailto:davidh@psiphi.org">David Henderson</a>
- - onscreen-credits transcriptions
- <li> <a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/genoa/home.html">Jack Holt</a>
- - onscreen-credits transcriptions, seasons 1 and 2
- <li> <a href="mailto:magidin@math.berkeley.edu">Arturo Magidin</a>
- - onscreen-credits transcriptions, seasons 4 and 5
- <li> <a href="http://diglib.stanford.edu/~mogens/">Christian Mogensen</a>
- - the Find function
- <li> <a href="mailto:mmurray@cc.wwu.edu">Matthew Murray</a>
- - second- and third-season synopses
- <li> <a href="http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~oliver/">E. L. Oliver</a>
- - novel synopses and guide pages
- <li> Steven Orso - JMS Speaks entries
- <li> <a href="mailto:mattryan@pobox.com">Matt Ryan</a>
- - first-season guide pages
- <li> Jason Snell - late second-season guide pages
- <li> Dirk Steines - onscreen-credits transcriptions
- <li> <a href="http://www.karelia.com/">Dan Wood</a> - Graphic design and layout; illustrations; the FAQ List,
- from which information is regularly culled; and general helpfulness
- and assistance.
- <li> Dave Zimmerman - second-season guide pages
- </ul>
-
- <p>
- On the episode guide pages, the guest stars' names are generally linked
- to their entries in the
- <a href="http://www.imdb.com/">Internet Movie Database</a>.
- Thanks to the IMDb for providing such a useful service.
-
- <p>
- Of course, the biggest credit of all goes to J. Michael Straczynski,
- without whom we'd all have a <strong>lot</strong> more free time! :)
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="about-jms">Who's JMS talking to?</a></h3>
-
- The "JMS Speaks" sections of the episode guide pages are culled from
- executive producer J. Michael Straczynski's messages on various online
- services and the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 newsgroup. When he writes
- about an episode, he's often replying to a question from another user.
- This is frequently reflected in the wording of his replies, which can
- be a little disconcerting if you're not expecting it.
-
- <p>
- Where required, I've tried to include some context to clarify what JMS
- is talking about. I don't, and don't plan to, include the original
- messages verbatim, both for space reasons (questions are frequently
- longer than JMS' responses) and because while JMS has given permission
- for his messages to be archived, not everyone else has.
-
- <p>
- When I judge that one of JMS' remarks can stand on its own, I generally
- include it in its entirety, even if it begins with text like, "You're
- right, Mary." If you feel one of his comments is incomprehensible
- because of lack of context, feel free to point it out to me.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="notyet">Why isn't the guide page/synopsis/credits page filled
- in yet?</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- First see the answer to the previous question.
-
- <p>
- All the information in the Guide, aside from the JMS quotes, is written or
- assembled by fans on a volunteer basis. Warner Bros. doesn't run this site,
- and we don't get official episode descriptions or press releases except
- indirectly via the net. So the simple answer is, if the episode hasn't aired
- yet, the page isn't filled in because we haven't seen the show.
-
- <p>
- Some of the volunteers see the episodes from the satellite uplink.
- Some see them the following weekend and don't have time to write their pages
- until the subsequent week. In general, all the pages tend to be filled in
- by two weeks after the initial satellite uplink to the US market.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="awards">Awards and accolades</a></h3>
-
- (This section is mostly to satisfy my voracious ego. You should probably
- skip it.)
-
- <p>
- The Lurker's Guide, like the show, has attracted some positive attention from
- the world at large.
-
- <p>
- <ul>
-
- <li> July 1998:
- <a href="http://www.eyeontheweb.com/">Eye On the Web</a>
- selected site.
-
- <li> June 1998:
- <a href="http://www.gnuhoo.com/">GnuHoo</a>
- cool site.
-
- <li> October 1997:
- <a href="http://members.tripod.com/~dymphna/">Best of Babylonia</a>
- selected site.
-
- <li> August 1997:
- <a href="http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2220/tvsotw.html">TV
- Site of the Week</a>
-
- <li> July 1997:
- <a href="http://www.surffamily.com/institute/">Pacific Paratemporal
- Institute</a>
- cool site.
-
- <li> April 1997:
- <a href="http://www.omnimag.com/cool_science/">OMNI Cool Science</a>
- winner.
-
- <li> January 1997: One of
- <a href="http://www.lycos.com/">Lycos</a>'
- top 10 science-fiction sites.
-
- <li> January 1997:
- <a href="http://www.looksmart.com/">LookSmart's</a>
- Editor's Choice Award.
-
- <li> January 1997:
- <a href="http://www.netguide.com/">NetGuide</a>
- Gold Award.
-
- <li> November 1996: SFX magazine (UK) site of the month.
-
- <li> August 1996:
- <a href="http://netmar.com/~alba/tva-e.html">Top Rock</a>
- award.
-
- <li> July 1996:
- <a href="http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~schoenfe/2-2.html">Athena Site
- of the Month.</a>
-
- <li> June 1996:
- <a href="http://twig.hypercon.com/">The Weekly Internet Guide</a>
- five-star site.
-
- <li> June 1996:
- <a href="http://www.tasmall.com.au/offsite.html">Tasmall</a>
- cool site of the week.
-
- <li> June 1996:
- <a href="http://www.lm.com/~onestar/">The Journal of Onestar</a>
- Site of the Week.
-
- <li> May 1996:
- <a href="http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~suaap/">Shakaar Society</a>
- Top 5 Site for the month of May.
-
- <li> April 1996:
- <a href="http://www.scifi.com/sfw/">Science Fiction Weekly's</a>
- Site of the Week for April 8.
-
- <li> March 1996: Rated #10 out of the top 101 sites on the Web by
- MacUser magazine.
-
- <li> January 1996: 3-star rating in the
- <a href="http://www.mckinley.com/">Magellan Internet Directory.</a>
-
- <li> December 1995: 5-star rating in the
- <a href="http://www.underground-online.com/">Internet Underground</a>
- Web Guide.
-
- <li> October 1995: Rated among the Top 5% of the Web in the
- <a href="http://www.pointcom.com/">Point Survey.</a>
-
- <li> August 1995: Most-nominated site in the
- <a href="http://www.flavour.co.uk/flavour/dreamwatch/">DreamWatch</a>
- sci-fi resources database.
-
- <li> August 1995: Graded "A" by
- <a href="http://www.thenet-usa.com/">the net</a>
- magazine.
-
- <li> June 1995:
- <a href="http://www.nuke.com/">Nuke</a>'s
- Hot Site (TV section.)
-
- <li> November 13, 1994:
- <a href="http://www.infi.net/cool.html">Cool Site of the Day.</a>
- </ul>
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="link">Linking to the Guide</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- You're welcome to put links to the Guide in your Web pages if you like; no
- need to ask permission. In fact, you can even use the
- <a href="/lurk/nav/title/icon.gif">Lurker's Guide icon</a>
- from the
- <a href="/">Midwinter home page</a>
- as your hotlink (remember the ALT text!)
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="forward">Why aren't there links to the episodes that
- answer the unanswered questions on the guide pages?</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- That's a task I've set aside for myself for after the series is over. Until
- then it's simply too much work to have to go through all the old pages when
- a new episode shows up -- and I can never be entirely sure that the question
- has actually been answered as fully as it will be, since there are often
- nuances that don't emerge until further down the line.
-
- <p>
- Please don't take that to mean that I want people to tell me where to put the
- forward references -- this is really something I'd rather not undertake at all
- until the show is finished, at which point it'll be possible to do a much nicer
- job of it.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="dates">Why are there dates next to some of the
- entries on the guide pages?</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- The dates appear next to entries that have been added in the last two weeks.
- They disappear automatically when an entry gets more than two weeks old. You
- can use the dates, in conjunction with the
- <a href="lastmod.html">Modification Times page,</a>
- to quickly see what's changed on a particular guide page. The dates are
- emphasized and enclosed in double brackets, so should stand out on any kind
- of browser.
-
- <p>
- I only mark an item as changed if there's been some change to the substance
- of the comment; spelling corrections and the like don't get datestamped.
- (But they'll still cause the page's modification time to be updated.)
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="nodates">Why aren't there recent dates next to entries on a guide
- page that changed recently?</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- See the previous question.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="mirror">I want to mirror the Guide. How do I do it?</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- I appreciate your interest. At this point I have all the mirrors I want.
- Each additional mirror is a little extra work for me, and I'd rather spend my
- Guide time on the Guide itself.
-
- <p>
- If you want to make a local copy for your personal use, I don't have a problem
- with that -- and in fact, it effectively happens all the time, since you're
- making a local copy when you use a caching proxy HTTP server. That's probably
- the easiest way to go about it. (No, I can't help you set one up; ask your
- local webmaster or get one of the many books on Web site administration.)
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="crusade">Will the Lurker's Guide cover "Crusade?"</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- <a href="misc/whatnext.html">Read all about it.</a>
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="amazon">Why are there links to Amazon.com all over?</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- Linking to Amazon.com from the novel pages and elsewhere in the Guide
- serves a few purposes. First, it provides people with an easy way to
- get the books. Not everyone is in an area with bookstores that carry
- Babylon 5 novels and behind-the-scenes books. I've been ordering books
- from Amazon.com for some time now and have found them to be responsible
- and prompt.
-
- <p>
- Second, it gives readers a place to post comments about the books, and to
- read others' comments. Maintaining that sort of forum isn't something I
- have time to do within the Guide itself.
-
- <p>
- And third, yes, it puts a little money in my pocket. Once I decided it'd
- serve the Guide's readers to link to Amazon.com (and that consideration did
- come first) it seemed reasonable to join their associates program and link
- to them that way; it doesn't hurt the user experience at all, the writers
- and Warner Bros. are paid the same amount in royalties -- everyone wins.
-
- <p>
- I'm not in this for the money: I've turned down more offers from
- Web ad sales people than I can count, mostly because I think ad banners
- splattered all over the place would worsen the Guide (and, to a lesser
- extent, because it would present copyright and licensing issues I'm not
- interested in dealing with.) The links to Amazon.com,
- on the other hand, add something of value that wasn't here before, and can
- be justified purely as a benefit to the readers.
-
- <p>
- <hr size=4>
- <h2>Can you tell me...</h2>
-
- <h3><a name="video">Where to find episodes on video</a></h3>
-
- Babylon 5 is available on videotape in Europe and the US. See the Guide's
- <a href="resources/products.html#video">Products</a>
- page for a complete rundown.
-
- <p>
- I can't direct you to someone who'll copy the episodes for you.
- For one thing, it's illegal, and for another, I simply don't have lists of
- people who want to copy videotapes. If you must, ask for help in this
- regard on the alt.tv.babylon5 newsgroup. Requests of this nature will be
- silently deleted if you mail them to me.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="rerun">When old episodes will be rerun</a></h3>
-
- Naturally, this varies by country. In the US, rerun rights to Babylon 5
- have been bought by the
- <a href="http://tnt.turner.com/">TNT</a>
- cable network. They'll begin airing season 1 reruns in January 1998,
- concurrent with season 5. See the
- <a href="/lurk/countries/us/episodes.php">US/Canada episode list</a>
- page for the latest information.
-
- <p>
- For information about other countries, check the schedule page for the
- country in question. All the information I have about reruns is on the
- schedule pages; if you don't see it there, I don't know about it.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="restart">When new episodes will be shown in my country</a></h3>
-
- All the information I have about upcoming schedules appears on the various
- <a href="/lurk/countries/">country-specific schedule pages.</a>
- As soon as I have additional information about broadcasts in a particular
- country, I update the page in question. If you don't see anything about new
- episodes on your country's page, it means I haven't been told about future
- broadcast plans.
-
- <p>
- If you're desperate for information, call the TV station
- or network that was showing the most recent batch of episodes and ask them
- if there's any news. (If there is, tell me so I can update the Guide!)
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="items">When the next episode / novel / comic / toy / etc. will be
- out</a></h3>
-
- All the information I have about release dates is in the appropriate
- places in the Guide; I don't know anything about release dates that's not
- listed here. Check the
- <a href="episodes.php">episode list</a>
- (or, if you're outside the US and Canada, the list for your
- <a href="countries/">country</a>)
- for episode schedules, the
- <a href="novels/index.html">novel index</a>
- for information about the novels, the
- <a href="comic/index.html">comic index</a>
- for information about the comics... you get the idea. The
- <a href="toc.html">table of contents</a>
- is a useful page to know about.
-
-
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="future">What will happen to B5 after the story is done</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- There is a followup series,
- <a href="/lurk/guide/113.html">"Crusade."</a>
- It takes place after the events of the original series (not counting
- <a href="/lurk/guide/088.html">"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"</a>
- and
- <a href="/lurk/guide/110.html">"Sleeping in Light,"</a>
- which are both set long after the rest of the story).
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="font">Where to get the font B5 uses</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- Babylon 5 uses the "Serpentine Medium" font for its onscreen credits and
- titles. The Lurker's Guide uses this font for many of its labels as well.
- Serpentine Medium is available from
- <a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems.</a>
- It is on their Type On Call CD-ROM and their Font Folio CD set, possibly
- others.
-
- <p>
- I cannot give you a copy of the font -- you have to buy it from Adobe if
- you want it.
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="stations">Where and when B5 is on in my area</a></h3>
-
- The most current information I have is on your country's
- <a href="countries/">schedule page.</a>
- Check there first. If the information there is wrong for your area, your best
- bet is to check your local TV listings or, if B5 was previously on a particular
- station, to call that station and ask where it was moved. Then let me know
- what you find out so I can update the list.
-
- <p>
- TV stations don't
- notify me when they make schedule changes, so it'll do you no good to ask me
- about your local station's air time. As soon as I'm told about a schedule
- change, I change the station list to reflect it.
-
- <p>
- <hr size=4>
- <h2>Why don't you have...</h2>
-
- <h3><a name="pics">More Pictures</a></h3>
-
- Understand that
- I'm in no way associated with the B5 production team. I don't have any
- access to production materials that the general public doesn't. In other
- words, you can get new high-quality pictures as easily as I can. If you
- do manage to scare up some official ones ("official" means anything released
- by Warner Bros.' publicity department, which generally includes anything
- in magazines) I'll happily accept them.
-
- <p>
- I do occasionally digitize some small stills from episodes to put in the
- guide pages and synopses. My rule of thumb there is that those pictures
- should be small enough that someone who wanted to get an official license
- to make a CD-ROM full of B5 images wouldn't lose business due to what
- I've done. I do <em>not</em> take requests -- getting set up to do the
- digitizing is something of a hassle, I only do it once every couple
- months, and I'd spend a solid week on my pause button if I grabbed all
- the frames people have requested.
-
- <p>
- Note that the people who write the synopses for the episodes are <em>not</em>
- the ones who grab the pictures -- the pictures are added after the fact as
- I find time to do it.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="sounds">More Sounds</a></h3>
-
- Early on, when
- I decided to keep my synopsis and guide page images small, I also decided
- I wasn't going to have any sounds here. The primary concern is the same
- as the pictures: I don't want to reduce anyone's ability to sell a disk
- of licensed B5 sound clips, either before or after the fact. Unfortunately,
- there's not really an equivalent middle ground along the lines of keeping
- pictures small; you can't have a clip of just half a funny line, for
- instance, without it being useless.
-
- <p>
- However, I have no qualms about listing other people's B5 pages in the
- guide, and if they happen to contain sounds, there's nothing I can (or
- should) do about it. You'll therefore find links to a couple sites with
- B5 sounds in the
- <a href="/lurk/resources/online.html">Other Resources</a>
- section.
-
- <p>
- There are some audio and video clips in the
- <a href="/lurk/ftp/Clips/index.html">/pub/Babylon-5/Clips</a>
- directory
- on the FTP server; these were provided as promotional items by Warner Bros.,
- and thus the above doesn't apply to them.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="videoclips">Video clips</a></h3>
-
- See the "sounds" explanation.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="bios">Bios on the characters, more background info, etc.</a></h3>
-
- These are a matter of time. It takes time and effort to write them up,
- and when I do have time to work on things for the guide, I generally have
- other items higher on my list. I'll happily accept donations, of course,
- if you have free time and can write well.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="old">Complete guide pages for some older episodes</a></h3>
-
- Some first-season episodes have pretty skimpy guide pages. Another matter
- of time. If you'd like to offer some contents for the pages, please do;
- otherwise they'll get filled in eventually.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="modified">A page that lists the modification times of all the
- guide pages</a></h3>
-
- Actually, I do. Follow the "Modification Times" link at the top of the
- What's New page or the US episode list page and you'll see it.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr size=4>
- <h2>How do I...</h2>
-
- <h3><a name="HT-current">Add "This Week's Episode" to my hotlist?</a></h3>
-
- When you select the "This Week's Episode" link from the home page, you're
- automatically sent to the guide page for the episode currently airing in
- the US and Canada. (For other countries, see the
- <a href="countries/">country list.</a>)
- Unfortunately, if you select your browser's "Add to Hotlist" function, you'll
- add that particular episode's page.
-
- <p>
- If your browser allows you to edit your hotlist (most do), you can fix that
- very easily. Add any episode's guide page to your hotlist, then edit the
- page's URL. Replace everything after the last slash (a number followed by
- ".html", e.g. "<code>038.html</code>") with "current.html" (no quotes.)
- Then save your changes if your browser requires it.
-
- <p>
- <hr>
- <h3><a name="HT-jms">Send mail to JMS?</a></h3>
-
- Before you send him mail, make sure you check the archives of his messages
- (you can search them using the Lurker's Guide's
- <a href="/lurk/search.html">Find</a>
- page.) Your question may have already been answered.
-
- <p>
- JMS can be reached at <tt>jmsatb5@aol.com</tt>. Note that he
- gets a <em>lot</em> of mail, so don't take it personally if you don't get
- a reply -- there simply aren't enough hours in the day to answer all the
- questions people ask. Here's his request regarding private E-mail:
-
- <blockquote>
- Every so often I have to go out with a policy note, so this is it. If you've
- seen this before, ignore it. If not....
-
- <p>
- Understand that my private email is reserved for matters that cannot be
- discussed pubicly, and extremely personal matters. It is not to be used for
- questions about plot, or character, or theme. Otherwise I end up answering the
- same question individually 50 times instead of answering it once publicly so 50
- people can get the same information.
-
- <p>
- Do NOT send me jokes, humorous forwarded notes, chain letters, spam or other
- stuff. You may think, "Well, it's just me sending along one little joke," but
- bear in mind there are roughly 10.5 million "just me's" out there. My email is
- getting to be impossible to deal with. Unless there is an overwhelmingly good
- reason why a note should be sent via email instead of in a public forum...keep
- it public.
-
- <p>
- Particularly difficult is if someone sends me multiple notes after I reply once
- or twice, and if I don't respond to subsequent notes, gets annoyed at me. I
- reply if there is a reason to reply; if not, not.
-
- <p>
- Please understand that my private email is a privilege, and not to be flooded
- with casual story requests or jokes.
- </blockquote>
-
- <p>
- JMS reads the
- <a href="news:rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated">rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated</a>
- newsgroup (try
- <a href="http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?query=~g+(rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated">DejaNews</a>
- if that link doesn't work.) Your questions are more likely to be answered
- if you ask there than if you try sending him mail directly; he prefers to answer
- questions in public so everyone can benefit, and so he doesn't get the same
- question over and over again.
-
- <p>
- He also frequents the B5 discussion areas on GEnie, CompuServe, and America
- Online; if you don't have Usenet access, you can try one of those places.
-
-
- <p>
- <hr size=4>
-
- <h3><a name="fanclubsite">I can't get to the fan club site. Help!</a></h3>
-
- <p>
- I don't run the fan club or its Web site; I just link to them as a service
- to the fans. If you're having trouble with the fan club site, send mail to
- <a href="mailto:webmaster@thestation.com">webmaster@thestation.com</a>
- for assistance.
-
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