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- From: "Melissa Wauford, UTCC" <MWAUFORD@UTKVX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps,rec.answers,news.answers
- Subject: *** REC.ARTS.TV.SOAPS POSTING GUIDELINES ***
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- Date: 21 Mar 1994 10:53:59 GMT
- Organization: Univ of Tennessee Computing Center
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- Archive-name: tv/soaps/abbrevs
-
- [Last changed - 08/26/93]
- [Changes since last posting - None.]
-
- One of the following abbreviations should be used at the beginning of the
- subject line of all postings to rec.arts.tv.soaps. For example:
-
- Subject: DOOL - Update for Thursday
-
- or
-
- Subject: AMC: Tad and ?
-
- This will allow those who use rn or any other method of pre-selecting
- articles to determine whether they wish to read the article or not. For
- information on these methods see the monthly Frequently Asked Questions
- posting by Margaret Gibbs (gibbsm@ll.mit.edu). The FAQ is available for
- anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in /pub/usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq
- or send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing
- "send /pub/usenet/news.answers/tv/soaps/faq" in the body of the message.
-
- Remember that if you want to write about, for example, AMC and GH in the
- same article, half of your intended audience may filter out whichever
- abbreviation you put first. In such a case you should use the network
- abbreviation or, as a last resort, post the article twice.
-
- ALL - To be seen by all readers of r.a.t.s
-
- ABC - All ABC daytime soaps (LOV, AMC, OLTL, GH)
- CBS - All CBS daytime soaps (Y&R, B&B, GL, ATWT)
- NBC - All NBC daytime soaps (DOOL, AW)
-
- AMC - All My Children
- AW - Another World
- ATWT - As the World Turns
- B&B - The Bold & the Beautiful
- DOOL - Days of Our Lives
- GH - General Hospital
- GL - Guiding Light
- LOV - Loving
- OLTL - One Life to Live
- Y&R - The Young & the Restless
-
- BH - Beverly Hills 90210
- SIS - Sisters
-
- SANDS - Shifting Sands (net-written soap)
-
- Many of the soap subgroups use the abbreviation TAN (for tangent) to
- indicate postings which don't necessarily have to do with that soap but
- which should be addressed to that subgroup. General intra-group banter can
- then be differentiated from actual information and commentary on that soap.
- The TAN abbreviation should always follow the soap abbreviation, as in the
- following example:
-
- Subject: DOOL: TAN: A New Peel Sister
-
- Discussion threads which stray off the topic of the soap should be renamed
- to include the TAN indicator.
-
- --
-
- Melissa
- mwauford@utkvx.utk.edu
-
-