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Welcome to rec.arts.startrek.info!

The purpose of this group is to provide an uncluttered resource of
information and news pertaining to Star Trek.  Rec.arts.startrek.info is
a moderated newsgroup, which means that all articles must be submitted
to the moderator for approval before they will be posted.  Articles
appearing in this newsgroup generally fall into one of five categories :

	1) Official press releases, episode credits, new episode synopses,
	   and stations listing (generally posted by Mike "Vidiot" Brown,
	   Roger Noe, Tim Lynch, and Chris Wayne, respectively)

	2) Convention reports - summaries of Q&A sessions with guest
	   speakers or Richard Arnold and news of upcoming conventions.

	3) Star Trek offers from one-time or otherwise unusual sources
	   (including, for example, the Citibank Star Trek Visa and the
	   Star Trek V Marshmallow Dispenser, but not including ads
	   from companies such as Lincoln Enterprises).

	4) Factual articles from newspapers, magazines, or other forms
	   of media (as compared to articles expressing opinions, such
	   as movie reviews).

	5) First- or second-hand information, such as reliable information
	   on upcoming episodes or movies, "I just heard this from Mike
	   Okuda", etc.  The key word here is "reliable"...

These are very loose categories - if I think a submission contains
relatively accurate, potentially interesting information, I will accept it.
Note that I am adverse to accepting "canonical lists", such as "the
canonical list of starships", "the canonical list of alien races", etc.  95%
of the time, these lists aren't canonical, parts of them are subject to
interpretation, or they're otherwise inaccurate.  Feel free to submit them,
but expect that I'll reject them.

Item #3 causes the most trouble.  I will accept solicitations from one-time
or otherwise unusual sources - the Star Trek Visa, the STV Marshmallow
dispenser, the replicas from the Franklin Mint, etc.  I will *not* accept
articles from clubs soliciting membership or from commercial groups such
as Lincoln Enterprises.  The former barely qualify as "news", as they
are unusual offers.  The latter are not.

If you have comments, criticisms, suggestions, requests for archive
information, etc., send mail to "trek-info-request@dweeb.fx.com".

All articles appearing in r.a.s.i are available via anonymous FTP.
The articles are archived on scam.berkeley.edu (128.32.138.1) in the
directory misc/info.  The file README in that directory explains what
is available.

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