alt.tv.x-files

Newsgroup
Name:	alt.tv.x-files, aka ATX or ATXF
Date(s):	December 1993 - present
Moderator:	n/a
Type:	Discussion
Fandom:	The X-Files
URL:	ATX
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	Contents 1 Notable Events; 2 Notable Persons; 3 External links; 4 Meta 4.1 Interviews; ; 5 See also; 6 Notes;

alt.tv.x-files (ATX) is a usenet group dedicated to discussion of The X-Files.

Notable Events

The Limerick Hoax: A rumor perpetuated by gizzie, and others, that there was a "lost" X-Files episode set in Boston where Mulder wears a fisherman's sweater and encounters a leprechaun. The majority of the newsgroup took it at face value until one member stepped forward to reveal it was a joke.^[1]
Luke, I am your father: In the first and second seasons of the show, there were persistent threads going around that had Scully as Mulder's secret sister, various people/things from episodes as their long lost gardener/second grade teacher/house plant, and so on. This started with a lot of Star Wars jokes about Mulder and the Cigarette Smoking Man.
Reportedly, in the first season of the show, a passenger manifest in one episode lists prominent atxf posters.
The Smoking Man was first coined on atxf. It was later referenced in canon as "Cancer Man".
For a while, the list was home to the much hated/much loved character RPG X-Ville.

Laura Capozzola: Most prolific poster in the history of ATX, with 18,942 posts.^[2]
Alan Hurshman: Second most prolific with 12,042.^[2]
Gizzie: Third most prolific with 10,503.^[2]
Edmund Jimenez: Troll.
a late 1990s directory to fans, a "who's who," is here

Newsgroup
Name:	alt.tv.x-files, aka ATX or ATXF
Date(s):	December 1993 - present
Moderator:	n/a
Type:	Discussion
Fandom:	The X-Files
URL:	ATX
Click here for related articles on Fanlore.
Contents 1 Notable Events 2 Notable Persons 3 External links 4 Meta 4.1 Interviews 5 See also 6 Notes