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HLFIC-L
| Mailing List | |
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| Name: | HIGHLA-L |
| Date(s): | 1993(?)-2007 |
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| Type: | |
| Fandom: | Highlander |
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HLFIC-L was a Highlander mailing list
The HLFIC-L was for posting fiction only. Any discussion, whether about the stories themselves or what was appropriate content for the fiction list, took place on HIGHLA-L.
About Its Archive
Until 1997, when the Seventh Dimension Archive opened, the HLFIC-L mailing list was the only central collection of Highlander fanfic. There was also no web archive apart from the list archives themselves. In order to access stories members had to browse the index of posts, then send requests to the listserv for those posts to be e-mailed to them. Some writers provided detailed information in the subject line, but others didn't, so there was often a certain degree of hit-or-miss when requesting older posts. There was also no organization to the index apart from timestamps, so there was no ordering by pairing, genre, author, or title; just lists of posts.
Archive links
- 1995-1996
- See for 1997-2000.
- Jan 2001
- Feb 2001
- March 2001
- Apr 2001
- May 2001
- June 2001
- July 2001
- Aug 2001
- Sept 2001
- Oct 2001
- Nov 2001
- Dec 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- Jan 2004-May 2007
1998 Guidelines for the Highlander Fiction Listserv
By Debbie Douglass (list owner):
1. Fiction! (poetry welcome, too)
HLFIC-L, as the name implies, is for Highlander the sharing of fan-written fiction. Narrative prose is the most popular format, but scripts, poems, songs or whatever are welcome, as long as they relate to Highlander.
Anything that's not a story should be posted with the DISCUSS topic (See below for instructions on how to use TOPICS).
If you wish to comment on a story, HLFIC-L has been set up so that your replies, if your mailer program is RFC822 compliant, will go directly to the original poster.
Do not EVER send anything via "attachment" to the HLFIC-L mailing list. Some people may get it intact, but most people will NOT. Most people will simply get 95K of gibberish.
Cut and paste text into your e-mail program. If it's too long to be cut and pasted, then it's TOO LONG, and needs to be broken up into sections. If it's not text, then it should NOT be going to the HLFIC-L.
We suggest that story posts be no more than 350 lines each out of consideration for subscribers with mail programs that limit the size of incoming mail messages.
For info on getting past stories or sections of stories, get the retrieval instructions from Debbie Douglass by sending her email at douglass@chaplin.ndhm.gtegsc.com. If you include 'Send HLFIC Instruct' in the Subject line your request will be handled automatically.
All stories (up to but not including the current month) posted since the inception of HLFIC-L are archived on the ftp site which is accessible through World Wide Web. On the site is a full Index which lists alphabetically each story by its parts (filename), date posted, and the poster (who is usually the author). Where the author is not the poster the author's name has been added.
WWW -> http://www.highlander.org/lists/
2. Standard disclaimers
3. Story segment length
Due to the limitations of mailers on certain popular commercial services we ask that you limit each story segment to 350 lines.
4. NO REPOSTS (only revisions)!
All post are automatically archived. Please do not repost. Rewrites or other major revisions are ok, but if there aren't any changes, or changes are very minor, PLEASE DON'T repost it. If you post a rewrite of something you've posted before, please put "revised" or "rewrite" or something like that in the subject line of each section. When you post a revision please post all story parts, not just what changed.
5. PLEASE LIMIT yourself to no more than 8 story posts per story a day.
We have a lot more authors now and the bandwidth on HLFIC-L has gone up. Posting all of a 35 part story is sure to break the email limit for a majority of our subscribers.
6. Subject line - Do's and Don'ts
Please do not put comments on the subject line. Please number your story parts and include the total number if you know what it's going to be. Part numbers should always be at the end of the line. Please use arabic numbers (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0). Don't use roman numerals or spell out story part numbers. Examples of subject lines:
Hounds of Glory 4 of 15
Hounds of Glory 04-15
Hounds of Glory (4/15)
If you are posting a story for someone else be sure to include that person's name and email address (if available) in the top of each story part.
7. Label sex, violence, and language
HLFIC-L has been set up for TOPICS and one of those topics is the ADULT topic. Stories containing explicit sex, graphic violence,or profanity worse than what would be in a PG-13 movie are acceptable for posting, but you must put 'ADULT: at the very beginning of the Subject line of each post of a story part. Also include a warning at the top of the story explaining why the story needs the ADULT classification. ALL new subscriptions to HLFIC-L are created with the ADULT topic turned off. See the section on TOPICS below for instructions about how to turn this on. If you're posting your story in parts, you must put 'ADULT:' in the subject line of EACH and EVERY part and put a warning at the top of EACH and EVERY part IRREGARDLESS of whether that particular part has any ADULT material.
8. TOPICS
- As I mentioned above HLFIC-L has been set up with TOPICS and I
- have defined ADULT, XOVER, ADULTXOVER, WAR, DISCUSS, and Other as
- valid topics. The default topics for new subscriptions is ADMIN,
- XOVER, and Other.
ADULT - to be used for all posts that include material that would exceed the PG-13 movie rating.
XOVER - to be used for all posts that involve crossing the Highlander universe with other fandom universes, such as Star Trek, Forever Knight, X Files, etc.
ADULTXOVER - to be used for all XOVER posts that include material that would exceed the PG-13 movie rating (see above for XOVER definition).
WAR - This is a very special topic to be used only when there is a properly authorized and sanctioned round-robin fiction WAR in progress on HLFIC-L. If and when we have another one of these all current subscribers will be given advance notice.
- DISCUSS - To be used to discuss Highlander fanfic, comments about someone's work, fanfic techniques, and announcing FANZINES, and anything of a non-fiction nature. -ALL- non-fiction posts should be posted with this TOPIC.
- TEST - No one but the list owner receives the TEST topic by DEFAULT. BUT You may turn it on and off (or ask a fellow subscriber to turn it on to help you) temporarily if you desire to test your story posts for
the quoted-printable problem (all those stupid '=' littered all over your story). You may leave it on if you feel like it. If you set TOPICS on your subscription to ALL you will receive any TEST posts.
- Other - a catch-all topic for all FICTION posts that don't fall under any of the above classifications. All messages that do not include a valid topic designator are processed by the LISTSERV as the OTHER topic. There is no need to put the OTHER topic designator on the Subject line of any post to HLFIC-L for it to be processed as an OTHER topic post. [1]