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<h1 align=center><a name="TOP">Lurker's Guide Help and FAQs</a></h1>
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<p>
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<b>See Also:</b>
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<a href="/lurk/ftp/babylon-5-faq">[Babylon 5 FAQ]</a> -
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<a href="/lurk/toc.html">[Table of Contents]</a>
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<p>
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This document answers the most common questions I see in my capacity as
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maintainer of the Lurker's Guide. Before you send me mail, have a look
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at this list and see if your question is answered -- it'll save you the
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delay of waiting for my response (and if I'm busy, I might not reply to
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questions that're answered here.)
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="#fanclubsite">I can't get to the fan club site. Help!</a>
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<li> About the Guide
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="#general">General information</a>
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<li> <a href="#authors">About the authors</a>
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<li> <a href="#about-jms">Who's JMS talking to?</a>
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<li> <a href="#notyet">Why isn't the guide page/synopsis/credits page
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filled in for episode X yet?</a>
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<li> <a href="#awards">Awards and accolades</a>
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<li> <a href="#link">Linking to the Guide</a>
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<li> <a href="#forward">Why aren't there links to the episodes that
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answer the unanswered questions on the guide pages?</a>
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<li> <a href="#dates">Why are there dates next to some of the
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entries on the guide pages?</a>
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<li> <a href="#nodates">Why aren't there any recent dates on a guide
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page that was recently changed?</a>
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<li> <a href="#mirror">I want to mirror the Guide. How do I
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do it?</a>
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<li> <a href="#crusade">Will the Lurker's Guide cover</a>
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<a href="/lurk/guide/113.html">"Crusade?"</a>
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<li> <a href="#amazon">Why are there links to Amazon.com all
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over?</a>
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</ul>
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<li> Can you tell me...
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="#video">where to find episodes on video?</a>
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<li> <a href="#rerun">when older episodes will be rerun?</a>
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<li> <a href="#restart">when B5 will start (or resume) in my
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country?</a>
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<li> <a href="#items">when the next episode/novel/comic/toy/etc.
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will be out?</a>
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<li> <a href="#stations">where and when B5 is on in my area?</a>
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<li> <a href="#future">what will happen to the show after the
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five-year storyline is finished?</a>
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<li> <a href="#font">where to get the font Babylon 5 uses?</a>
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</ul>
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<li> Why don't you have...
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="#pics">more pictures?</a>
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<li> <a href="#sounds">sound clips?</a>
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<li> <a href="#videoclips">video clips?</a>
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<li> <a href="#bios">bios on characters, more background, etc.?</a>
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<li> <a href="#old">complete guide pages for older episodes?</a>
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<li> <a href="#download">a downloadable copy of the whole Guide?</a>
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<li> <a href="#modified">a page that lists the modification times
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of all the guide pages?</a>
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</ul>
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<li> How do I...
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="#HT-current">add "This Week's Episode" to my hotlist?</a>
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<li> <a href="#HT-jms">send mail to JMS?</a>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<hr size=6>
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<h2><a name="about">About the Guide</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="general">General information</a></h3>
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<p>
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The Lurker's Guide is a volunteer effort encompassing documents maintained
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by many <cite>Babylon 5</cite> fans, as well as a lot of original material
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not found elsewhere. It's not associated in any kind of official way with
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the show (but thanks for thinking so!)
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<p>
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It started off before the airing of the
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<a href="guide/000.html">pilot movie</a>
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as a simple HTMLized version of the
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<a href="/lurk/ftp/babylon-5-faq">Babylon 5 Frequently
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Asked Questions List,</a>
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and in fact a lot of the FAQ List's text can still be found here.
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Once the series began airing, maintaining a huge monolithic document became
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impractical, and the Lurker's Guide was born.
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<p>
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The main thing you'll find in the Guide that didn't originate elsewhere
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is the extensive
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<a href="episodes.php">episode list</a>
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with several pages for each episode. Each episode has a "guide page,"
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with some generic, non-spoiler information (guest stars, airdate, brief
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description) at the top and spoilers below a dividing line. From the
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guide page you can jump to a synopsis, the credits, and so forth.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="authors">About the authors</a></h3>
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<p>
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<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/">Steven Grimm</a>
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is more or less the editor-in-chief of the Guide, pulling together all the
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pieces and doing some of the writing himself. But most of the credit goes
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to the Guide's many contributors, who include: (<em>not</em> a complete list)
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="mailto:shawn.bayern@yale.edu">Shawn Bayern</a> - first-season
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synopses
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<li> <a href="mailto:kat@midwinter.com">Katrina Glerum</a> - background
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summaries
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<li> <a href="mailto:davidh@psiphi.org">David Henderson</a>
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- onscreen-credits transcriptions
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<li> <a href="http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/genoa/home.html">Jack Holt</a>
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- onscreen-credits transcriptions, seasons 1 and 2
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<li> <a href="mailto:magidin@math.berkeley.edu">Arturo Magidin</a>
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- onscreen-credits transcriptions, seasons 4 and 5
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<li> <a href="http://diglib.stanford.edu/~mogens/">Christian Mogensen</a>
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- the Find function
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<li> <a href="mailto:mmurray@cc.wwu.edu">Matthew Murray</a>
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- second- and third-season synopses
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<li> <a href="http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~oliver/">E. L. Oliver</a>
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- novel synopses and guide pages
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<li> Steven Orso - JMS Speaks entries
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<li> <a href="mailto:mattryan@pobox.com">Matt Ryan</a>
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- first-season guide pages
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<li> Jason Snell - late second-season guide pages
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<li> Dirk Steines - onscreen-credits transcriptions
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<li> <a href="http://www.karelia.com/">Dan Wood</a> - Graphic design and layout; illustrations; the FAQ List,
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from which information is regularly culled; and general helpfulness
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and assistance.
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<li> Dave Zimmerman - second-season guide pages
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</ul>
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<p>
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On the episode guide pages, the guest stars' names are generally linked
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to their entries in the
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/">Internet Movie Database</a>.
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Thanks to the IMDb for providing such a useful service.
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<p>
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Of course, the biggest credit of all goes to J. Michael Straczynski,
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without whom we'd all have a <strong>lot</strong> more free time! :)
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="about-jms">Who's JMS talking to?</a></h3>
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The "JMS Speaks" sections of the episode guide pages are culled from
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executive producer J. Michael Straczynski's messages on various online
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services and the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 newsgroup. When he writes
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about an episode, he's often replying to a question from another user.
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This is frequently reflected in the wording of his replies, which can
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be a little disconcerting if you're not expecting it.
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<p>
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Where required, I've tried to include some context to clarify what JMS
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is talking about. I don't, and don't plan to, include the original
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messages verbatim, both for space reasons (questions are frequently
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longer than JMS' responses) and because while JMS has given permission
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for his messages to be archived, not everyone else has.
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<p>
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When I judge that one of JMS' remarks can stand on its own, I generally
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include it in its entirety, even if it begins with text like, "You're
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right, Mary." If you feel one of his comments is incomprehensible
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because of lack of context, feel free to point it out to me.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="notyet">Why isn't the guide page/synopsis/credits page filled
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in yet?</a></h3>
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<p>
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First see the answer to the previous question.
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<p>
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All the information in the Guide, aside from the JMS quotes, is written or
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assembled by fans on a volunteer basis. Warner Bros. doesn't run this site,
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and we don't get official episode descriptions or press releases except
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indirectly via the net. So the simple answer is, if the episode hasn't aired
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yet, the page isn't filled in because we haven't seen the show.
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<p>
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Some of the volunteers see the episodes from the satellite uplink.
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Some see them the following weekend and don't have time to write their pages
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until the subsequent week. In general, all the pages tend to be filled in
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by two weeks after the initial satellite uplink to the US market.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="awards">Awards and accolades</a></h3>
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(This section is mostly to satisfy my voracious ego. You should probably
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skip it.)
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<p>
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The Lurker's Guide, like the show, has attracted some positive attention from
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the world at large.
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li> July 1998:
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<a href="http://www.eyeontheweb.com/">Eye On the Web</a>
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selected site.
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<li> June 1998:
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<a href="http://www.gnuhoo.com/">GnuHoo</a>
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cool site.
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<li> October 1997:
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<a href="http://members.tripod.com/~dymphna/">Best of Babylonia</a>
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selected site.
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<li> August 1997:
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<a href="http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2220/tvsotw.html">TV
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Site of the Week</a>
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<li> July 1997:
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<a href="http://www.surffamily.com/institute/">Pacific Paratemporal
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Institute</a>
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cool site.
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<li> April 1997:
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<a href="http://www.omnimag.com/cool_science/">OMNI Cool Science</a>
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winner.
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<li> January 1997: One of
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<a href="http://www.lycos.com/">Lycos</a>'
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top 10 science-fiction sites.
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<li> January 1997:
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<a href="http://www.looksmart.com/">LookSmart's</a>
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Editor's Choice Award.
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<li> January 1997:
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<a href="http://www.netguide.com/">NetGuide</a>
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Gold Award.
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<li> November 1996: SFX magazine (UK) site of the month.
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<li> August 1996:
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<a href="http://netmar.com/~alba/tva-e.html">Top Rock</a>
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award.
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<li> July 1996:
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<a href="http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~schoenfe/2-2.html">Athena Site
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of the Month.</a>
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<li> June 1996:
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<a href="http://twig.hypercon.com/">The Weekly Internet Guide</a>
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five-star site.
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<li> June 1996:
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<a href="http://www.tasmall.com.au/offsite.html">Tasmall</a>
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cool site of the week.
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<li> June 1996:
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<a href="http://www.lm.com/~onestar/">The Journal of Onestar</a>
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Site of the Week.
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<li> May 1996:
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<a href="http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~suaap/">Shakaar Society</a>
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Top 5 Site for the month of May.
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<li> April 1996:
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com/sfw/">Science Fiction Weekly's</a>
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Site of the Week for April 8.
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<li> March 1996: Rated #10 out of the top 101 sites on the Web by
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MacUser magazine.
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<li> January 1996: 3-star rating in the
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<a href="http://www.mckinley.com/">Magellan Internet Directory.</a>
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<li> December 1995: 5-star rating in the
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<a href="http://www.underground-online.com/">Internet Underground</a>
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Web Guide.
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<li> October 1995: Rated among the Top 5% of the Web in the
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<a href="http://www.pointcom.com/">Point Survey.</a>
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<li> August 1995: Most-nominated site in the
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<a href="http://www.flavour.co.uk/flavour/dreamwatch/">DreamWatch</a>
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sci-fi resources database.
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<li> August 1995: Graded "A" by
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<a href="http://www.thenet-usa.com/">the net</a>
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magazine.
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<li> June 1995:
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<a href="http://www.nuke.com/">Nuke</a>'s
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Hot Site (TV section.)
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<li> November 13, 1994:
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<a href="http://www.infi.net/cool.html">Cool Site of the Day.</a>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="link">Linking to the Guide</a></h3>
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<p>
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You're welcome to put links to the Guide in your Web pages if you like; no
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need to ask permission. In fact, you can even use the
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<a href="/lurk/nav/title/icon.gif">Lurker's Guide icon</a>
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from the
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<a href="/">Midwinter home page</a>
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as your hotlink (remember the ALT text!)
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="forward">Why aren't there links to the episodes that
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answer the unanswered questions on the guide pages?</a></h3>
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<p>
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That's a task I've set aside for myself for after the series is over. Until
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then it's simply too much work to have to go through all the old pages when
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a new episode shows up -- and I can never be entirely sure that the question
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has actually been answered as fully as it will be, since there are often
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nuances that don't emerge until further down the line.
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<p>
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Please don't take that to mean that I want people to tell me where to put the
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forward references -- this is really something I'd rather not undertake at all
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until the show is finished, at which point it'll be possible to do a much nicer
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job of it.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="dates">Why are there dates next to some of the
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entries on the guide pages?</a></h3>
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<p>
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The dates appear next to entries that have been added in the last two weeks.
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They disappear automatically when an entry gets more than two weeks old. You
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can use the dates, in conjunction with the
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<a href="lastmod.html">Modification Times page,</a>
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to quickly see what's changed on a particular guide page. The dates are
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emphasized and enclosed in double brackets, so should stand out on any kind
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of browser.
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<p>
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I only mark an item as changed if there's been some change to the substance
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of the comment; spelling corrections and the like don't get datestamped.
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(But they'll still cause the page's modification time to be updated.)
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="nodates">Why aren't there recent dates next to entries on a guide
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page that changed recently?</a></h3>
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See the previous question.
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<h3><a name="mirror">I want to mirror the Guide. How do I do it?</a></h3>
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<p>
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I appreciate your interest. At this point I have all the mirrors I want.
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Each additional mirror is a little extra work for me, and I'd rather spend my
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Guide time on the Guide itself.
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<p>
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If you want to make a local copy for your personal use, I don't have a problem
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with that -- and in fact, it effectively happens all the time, since you're
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making a local copy when you use a caching proxy HTTP server. That's probably
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the easiest way to go about it. (No, I can't help you set one up; ask your
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local webmaster or get one of the many books on Web site administration.)
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<h3><a name="crusade">Will the Lurker's Guide cover "Crusade?"</a></h3>
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<p>
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<a href="misc/whatnext.html">Read all about it.</a>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="amazon">Why are there links to Amazon.com all over?</a></h3>
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<p>
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Linking to Amazon.com from the novel pages and elsewhere in the Guide
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serves a few purposes. First, it provides people with an easy way to
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get the books. Not everyone is in an area with bookstores that carry
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Babylon 5 novels and behind-the-scenes books. I've been ordering books
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from Amazon.com for some time now and have found them to be responsible
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and prompt.
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<p>
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Second, it gives readers a place to post comments about the books, and to
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read others' comments. Maintaining that sort of forum isn't something I
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have time to do within the Guide itself.
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<p>
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And third, yes, it puts a little money in my pocket. Once I decided it'd
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serve the Guide's readers to link to Amazon.com (and that consideration did
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come first) it seemed reasonable to join their associates program and link
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to them that way; it doesn't hurt the user experience at all, the writers
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and Warner Bros. are paid the same amount in royalties -- everyone wins.
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<p>
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I'm not in this for the money: I've turned down more offers from
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Web ad sales people than I can count, mostly because I think ad banners
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splattered all over the place would worsen the Guide (and, to a lesser
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extent, because it would present copyright and licensing issues I'm not
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interested in dealing with.) The links to Amazon.com,
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on the other hand, add something of value that wasn't here before, and can
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be justified purely as a benefit to the readers.
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<p>
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<hr size=4>
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<h2>Can you tell me...</h2>
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<h3><a name="video">Where to find episodes on video</a></h3>
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Babylon 5 is available on videotape in Europe and the US. See the Guide's
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<a href="resources/products.html#video">Products</a>
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page for a complete rundown.
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<p>
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I can't direct you to someone who'll copy the episodes for you.
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For one thing, it's illegal, and for another, I simply don't have lists of
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people who want to copy videotapes. If you must, ask for help in this
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regard on the alt.tv.babylon5 newsgroup. Requests of this nature will be
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silently deleted if you mail them to me.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="rerun">When old episodes will be rerun</a></h3>
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Naturally, this varies by country. In the US, rerun rights to Babylon 5
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have been bought by the
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<a href="http://tnt.turner.com/">TNT</a>
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cable network. They'll begin airing season 1 reruns in January 1998,
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concurrent with season 5. See the
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<a href="/lurk/countries/us/episodes.php">US/Canada episode list</a>
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page for the latest information.
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<p>
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For information about other countries, check the schedule page for the
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country in question. All the information I have about reruns is on the
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schedule pages; if you don't see it there, I don't know about it.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="restart">When new episodes will be shown in my country</a></h3>
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All the information I have about upcoming schedules appears on the various
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<a href="/lurk/countries/">country-specific schedule pages.</a>
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As soon as I have additional information about broadcasts in a particular
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country, I update the page in question. If you don't see anything about new
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episodes on your country's page, it means I haven't been told about future
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broadcast plans.
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<p>
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If you're desperate for information, call the TV station
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or network that was showing the most recent batch of episodes and ask them
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if there's any news. (If there is, tell me so I can update the Guide!)
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="items">When the next episode / novel / comic / toy / etc. will be
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out</a></h3>
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All the information I have about release dates is in the appropriate
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places in the Guide; I don't know anything about release dates that's not
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listed here. Check the
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<a href="episodes.php">episode list</a>
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(or, if you're outside the US and Canada, the list for your
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<a href="countries/">country</a>)
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for episode schedules, the
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<a href="novels/index.html">novel index</a>
|
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for information about the novels, the
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<a href="comic/index.html">comic index</a>
|
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for information about the comics... you get the idea. The
|
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<a href="toc.html">table of contents</a>
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is a useful page to know about.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="future">What will happen to B5 after the story is done</a></h3>
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<p>
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There is a followup series,
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<a href="/lurk/guide/113.html">"Crusade."</a>
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It takes place after the events of the original series (not counting
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<a href="/lurk/guide/088.html">"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"</a>
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and
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<a href="/lurk/guide/110.html">"Sleeping in Light,"</a>
|
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which are both set long after the rest of the story).
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="font">Where to get the font B5 uses</a></h3>
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<p>
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Babylon 5 uses the "Serpentine Medium" font for its onscreen credits and
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titles. The Lurker's Guide uses this font for many of its labels as well.
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Serpentine Medium is available from
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<a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems.</a>
|
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It is on their Type On Call CD-ROM and their Font Folio CD set, possibly
|
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others.
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<p>
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I cannot give you a copy of the font -- you have to buy it from Adobe if
|
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you want it.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="stations">Where and when B5 is on in my area</a></h3>
|
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|
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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
|
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bet is to check your local TV listings or, if B5 was previously on a particular
|
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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.
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<p>
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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
|
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change, I change the station list to reflect it.
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<p>
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<hr size=4>
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<h2>Why don't you have...</h2>
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<h3><a name="pics">More Pictures</a></h3>
|
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|
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Understand that
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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
|
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words, you can get new high-quality pictures as easily as I can. If you
|
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do manage to scare up some official ones ("official" means anything released
|
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by Warner Bros.' publicity department, which generally includes anything
|
|
in magazines) I'll happily accept them.
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<p>
|
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I do occasionally digitize some small stills from episodes to put in the
|
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guide pages and synopses. My rule of thumb there is that those pictures
|
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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
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I've done. I do <em>not</em> take requests -- getting set up to do the
|
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digitizing is something of a hassle, I only do it once every couple
|
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months, and I'd spend a solid week on my pause button if I grabbed all
|
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the frames people have requested.
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<p>
|
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Note that the people who write the synopses for the episodes are <em>not</em>
|
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the ones who grab the pictures -- the pictures are added after the fact as
|
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I find time to do it.
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h3><a name="sounds">More Sounds</a></h3>
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Early on, when
|
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I decided to keep my synopsis and guide page images small, I also decided
|
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I wasn't going to have any sounds here. The primary concern is the same
|
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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
|
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instance, without it being useless.
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<p>
|
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However, I have no qualms about listing other people's B5 pages in the
|
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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
|
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B5 sounds in the
|
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<a href="/lurk/resources/online.html">Other Resources</a>
|
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section.
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<p>
|
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There are some audio and video clips in the
|
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<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.
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<p>
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<hr>
|
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<h3><a name="videoclips">Video clips</a></h3>
|
|
|
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See the "sounds" explanation.
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<p>
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<hr>
|
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<h3><a name="bios">Bios on the characters, more background info, etc.</a></h3>
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|
|
|
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
|
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other items higher on my list. I'll happily accept donations, of course,
|
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if you have free time and can write well.
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<p>
|
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<hr>
|
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<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.
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<p>
|
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<hr>
|
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<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.
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<p>
|
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<hr size=4>
|
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<h2>How do I...</h2>
|
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|
|
<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>
|
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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.
|
|
|
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<p>
|
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<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.
|
|
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|
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<p>
|
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<hr size=4>
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|
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<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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alt="[Home] "></a><a
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<h5>
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Last update:
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August 9, 1998
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</h5>
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</body>
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