01 Introduction to the faq postings for alt.folklore.urban
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This article is from the Urban legends FAQ, by Terry Chan tchan@dante.lbl.gov and Peter van der Linden linden@eng.sun.com with numerous contributions by others.
01 Introduction to the faq postings for alt.folklore.urban
The newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) is devoted to the
discussion and debunking of urban legends and other related
issues. This is Part I of the Frequently Asked Questions/
Frequently Posted Legends list for AFU.
Frequency:
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The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for alt.folklore.urban
is posted approximately twice a month to the alt.folklore.urban,
news.answers, and alt.answers newsgroups with an expiration date
approximately one month from the date of posting. If the FAQ is
not available on AFU at your site, check the other newsgroups
mentioned above.
Anonymous FTP:
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The five part FAQ for alt.folklore.urban is also available
via anonymous ftp at rtfm.mit.edu. You can retrieve them by
grabbing the following files:
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part1
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part2
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part3
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part4
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part5
Or heck, just do:
/pub/usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/part*
E-MAIL:
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If you do not have anonymous ftp access, rtfm.mit.edu can
send the FAQ to you via email. Send an e-mail message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu, subject ignored, and the body
containing:
send usenet/news.answers/folklore-faq/*
CATHOUSE:
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The FAQ and various sundry information are also available via
anonymous ftp from www.urbanlegends.com. Thanks to Jason
Heimbaugh for making this happen.
World-Wide Web
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There is a HTML version of the FAQ at:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/folklore-faq/top.html
Sean Willard has also done up a wonderful version of the FAQ which you
with links to cathouse.org at:
http://cathouse.org/UrbanLegends/AFUFAQ/
http://galileo.desy.de/~sean/afu/ .
For you folks in the Old World, check out Arthur Goldstruck's
(South African, geddit?) site at http://www.legends.org.za/arthur.
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