Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!faqserv From: racmx@yahoo.com (Kate the Short) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info,rec.arts.comics.reviews,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: Reviews FAQ - Welcome to rec.arts.comics.reviews! Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 20 Oct 1999 08:59:15 GMT Organization: Keepers of Frequently Asked Questions, rac.reviews division Lines: 170 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Expires: 17 Nov 1999 08:47:25 GMT Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: penguin-lust.mit.edu Summary: A welcome and information post for rec.arts.comics.reviews X-Last-Updated: 1999/06/29 Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu rec.arts.comics.info:8609 rec.arts.comics.reviews:4085 rec.answers:53340 news.answers:169340 Archive-name: comics/reviews/welcome Posting-frequency: biweekly URL: http://www.enteract.com/~katew/faqs/ rec.arts.comics.reviews -= WELCOME TO RAC.REVIEWS! =- Copyright 1995-1999 by Katharine E. Hahn http://www.enteract.com/~katew/ Version 99.03 Last updated June 1999 SEND ADDITIONS / CHANGES / DEAD LINKS / MOVED LINKS / UPDATES TO: Kate the Short, racmx@yahoo.com (mailto:racmx@yahoo.com) ------------------------------ Subject: Table of Contents Introduction General Information Resources Obtaining Personal Copies Credits ------------------------------ Subject: Introduction Welcome to rec.arts.comics.reviews! This is a moderated newsgroup. Followup discussion is NOT allowed here, but is instead directed to the rec.arts.comics.* newsgroup which the reviewed book(s) are most closely centered. PLEASE check your Newsgroups and Followup-To lines before posting a review or a followup, and please make sure that you post followups ONLY to the proper newsgroups, trimming the Newsgroups line if necessary. If you have any questions about the moderation, please direct them to the moderator, Jeremy Billones (mailto:billones@primenet.com). If you tried to post and cannot, either use a different account or post a short, polite message to rec.arts.comics.misc asking if Jeremy's been receiving any of your emails. For all we know, it could be his system that's temporarily down... Please note that as of February 1998, mail from Prodigy users has been banned from rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info. ------------------------------ Subject: General Information When writing a review, please make sure that it is more than a plot summary. While plot summaries are great information for those who are unfamiliar with the book, most often people will read reviews to either A) decide whether to buy the book, or B) see whether they agree with the comments you make about the dialogue, pencils, layouts, plot, editing, characterization, colors, and the like. Therefore, it's important to give more *critique* and *comment* and *praise* than simply restate the plot and be done with it. If you will be crossposting your review to a non-comics newsgroup, like rec.arts.books.reviews, rec.arts.movies.reviews, or rec.arts.sf.reviews, please make sure that your review fits that newsgroup's review criteria. Crossposting is fine, and is even encouraged, but please make sure to read the FAQs of those groups so your reviews won't be rejected. Links to their FAQs are given below. Examples of what to include in the review and how to format the subject lines to fit other groups' review templates will be provided in the Technical Guide. Please note that reviewers who want to CC their reviews to DC Comics or its other imprints should send them to (mailto:DCOMarc@aol.com). ------------------------------ Subject: Resources Following is a list of helpful hints and posting information. All new reviewers in rec.arts.comics.reviews are encouraged to read Mike's Arrogant Guide to Reviewing, as well as the FAQs for any other rec.arts.comics.* or *.reviews groups they are crossposting to. *** TECHNICAL GUIDE URL: http://www.enteract.com/~katew/faqs/revtech.htm This guide provides details about suggested reviewing formats, keywords, and examples of crossposts to other rec.arts.comics.* or *.reviews groups. *** MIKE'S ARROGANT GUIDE TO REVIEWING URL: http://www.enteract.com/~katew/faqs/revguide.htm This guide points out the differences between REAL reviews and mere commentaries or plot summaries. It's a very helpful guide, and is recommended reading for any fledgling reviewer. By Mike Chary. *** RAC.* REVIEWERS DIRECTORY URL: http://www.snapjudgments.com/reviewers.html This directory lists who reviews what. It includes the frequency and style of the reviews, the titles most often reviewed, and a web address (if available) where previous reviews are kept. By Randy Lander. *** OTHER RAC.* COMICS FAQS (LIST) URL: http://www.enteract.com/~katew/faqs/ The rac.* FAQs (posted to rec.arts.comics.info and rec.arts.comics.misc) have a bunch of interesting and important info for any comics fan. Checking them out is never a bad idea. ------------------------------ Subject: Obtaining Personal Copies The Welcome and the Technical Guide are available through anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu under: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/comics/reviews/welcome ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/comics/reviews/technical And on the web under: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/comics/reviews/ Want your own copies? Send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu (mailto:mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu) with any or all of: send /usenet/news.answers/comics/reviews/welcome send /usenet/news.answers/comics/reviews/technical in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Subject: Credits The Welcome Keeper would like to thank: * Jeremy Billones, for moderating rac.info and rac.reviews, * Mike Chary, for contributing his Arrogant Guide to Reviewing, * Aardy R. DeVarque for critiquing everything under the sun for me, * and all the RAC'ers who made rac.* a welcome place to begin with. -- Kate the Short * http://www.enteract.com/~katew/ | Kate the Short - Patron Saint - http://www.enteract.com/~katew/ | | Alpha Delta Pi: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Dorm/6100/ | | rg.frp.dnd FAQ: http://www.enteract.com/~aardy/faq/rgfdfaq.html | | xbooks FAQ: http://www.enteract.com/~katew/faqs/ - ICQ# 8375030 |