This article is from the soc.history.what-if FAQ, by Anthony Mayer anthonyemayer@yahoo.co.uk with numerous contributions by others.
Yes. The other Usenet newsgroups with some level of official interest in
alternative history are alt.tv.sliders (about the alternative-worlds TV
show), rec.arts.sf.written (the correct venue for discussion of the plot,
characters, or literary merit of most published alternative histories),
and the specialty group alt.books.harry-turtledove.
As of April 2000, there is a freeform online role-playing game, "SHWI In
the Sea Of Time," a mailing list in which a number of SHWI participants
are constructing an ATL based on their actions after being sent back to
1800 with personal computers but no other equipment:
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/SHWI-ISOT
SHWI has also spawned a online reading group, "SWHI Books". Unfortunately
this group has now closed, nevertheless the archive of posts may be of
interest to the shwi community:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shwibooks/
There are at least two general electronic mailing lists. One is a Yahoo!
group; send an e-mail to Alternatehistory-subscribe@ yahoogroups.com. The
other, "Time in Fictions," is a bilingual French- English mailing list for
discussion of time travel and related themes in all media. TiF is linked
to the non-professional French magazine LA CLEPSYDRE. Further information
and registration is available at
http://clepsydre.free.fr/
There are also e-lists devoted to two authors best known for their
alternative histories. To subscribe to Videssos, the Harry Turtledove
Discussion List, send a blank e-mail to videssos-subscribe@
yahoogroups.com. To subscribe to the S.M. Stirling Discussion List, send a
blank e-mail to stirling-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
There are web-based alternative history forums at Del Rey's alternate
history site and Ian Montgomerie's personal site (see Question 18).
On other networks, there is an alternate history category of the Science
Fiction Round Table (SFRT1) on GEnie -- ask some other user how to go
about signing up.
The BBC Online discussion boards also host a what-if list as a spin-off
from an alternative history radio programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?state=view&board=history.whatif
Off the Net completely, there is a paper APA "Point of Divergence": Jim
Rittenhouse's page (see question 18) has a description and contact
information.
 
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