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alt.world.taeis FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

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This will be reposted at irregular intervals, and modified as
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This newsgroup is for the purpose of constructing a believable fictional
world, for several different purposes. The first, and probably most
importantly, it is for the exercise alone, to see if a collaborative, a
creative work of this intended breadth and depth can be accomplished.
Secondly, this world will be considered to be public property, in that
it can be freely used for fiction of any length, without restriction. All
fiction, however, still remains the property of the author. Finally, it
will also be used as something of a forum for a MUSH that is using Taeis
for its theme.

For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a MUSH is a multi-user text
environment that can be expanded upon with reasonable freedom. AT this time,
there is one MUSH being run on the Taeis theme. It should be noted that
while it is certainly preferable to maintain congruity between the MUSH
and the world as a whole, it is by no means necessary - the MUSH, like any
MUSH based off of a world, has the option of modifying the world in such
ways as is deemed appropriate or necessary.

This newsgroup is intended both for discussion and the presentation of draft
and final (if there can be said to be such a thing) articles or short works
of fiction that take place in the world of Taeis. I will be gradually posting
the documents that up until now I have been keeping on my account - not all
or even a large percentage of these was done by me personally.

For the convenience of the readers, I would request that a convention be
followed:

	Put "MUSH" in the header if it pertains only to the MUSH
	Put "ARTICLE" in the header if it is an article
	Put "FICTION" in the header if it is a work of fiction

	Also, it would in most cases be very helpful to also include in the
header the subject matter the article is on, such as astrophysics, genetics,
geology, culture, and such forth, and also the region of the world to which
it is relevant, if it is appropriate.

In posting the articles, in most cases I only have the name as used on the
MUSH, as most of the work up to now as been done by people who are also there
and who became interested through there. I will include the pseudonym in these
articles - if you would like your real name put on the document, then email me
at tuff@ellis.uchicago.edu and I will modify the documents to include it.

	Geoff Tuffli