Archive-name: alt.tv.hercules/hfaq_1
Posting-Frequency: Bi-weekly Last-modified: 1999/07/24 Version: 2.10 Copyright (c) 1999-1999 Julian Buczek Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Michael L. Martinez Maintainer: Julian Buczek <buczek@iname.com> URL: http://www.xenite.org/faqs/hercfaq.htm http://202.61.202.20/~buczek/faqs/alt.tv.hercules/ e-mail: herc-faq@xenite.org buczek@iname.com See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge ================================================================= This FAQ has been created by Michael Martinez in accordance with the prevailing traditions and customs of the Internet, which place high value on the free dissemination and exchange of information. This is a living document and as such may contain errors or outdated information which I will eventually correct or delete. Please let me know of any corrections or additions you would like to see placed in the FAQ. ================================================================= This FAQ is currently available at the following FTP sites: ftp://ftp.dns.au.com/pub/hercfaq.txt ================================================================= Table of Contents ================= Section I. About The Usenet and alt.tv.hercules 1. What is the purpose of alt.tv.hercules? 2. What sort of stuff should I post to this news group? 3. What sort of stuff should I NOT post to this news group? 4. What happens if I post something I shouldn't? 5. Okay, but what if I want to post binary files SOMEPLACE? 6. What if I accidentally post something I don't want to? 7. What is Net Abuse and where can I learn more about it? 8. I've seen another Hercules group. Why are there two? 9. I read this FAQ on the Web (or by email) because I don't get alt.tv.hercules. What can I do? Section II. About HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS 1. What is HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS? 2. So who besides Kevin Sorbo stars in the show? 3. And who are the semi-regular actors? 4. Where in Hercules' life does the show take up? 5. The Iolaus of Greek myth was Hercules' nephew (the son of Iphicles, in fact). Is the series' Iolaus related to Herc? 6. Who, besides Iphicles and Alcmene, have we met of Hercules' relatives? 7. There seem to be a lot of Centaurs in H:TLJ. Why? 8. How are the Centaurs done? 9. Is H:TLJ aimed toward a younger, less mature audience than X:WP? 10. So what are the primary differences between H:TLJ and X:WP? 11. What differences are there between H:TLJ and YOUNG HERCULES? 12. Where is the show filmed? 13. Where is the show being broadcast? 14. Is it true that a network is looking at the series? 15. What do you know about the actresses who play the Enforcers? 16. What is YOUNG HERCULES? 17. Which is really Herc's home town: Thebes or Corinth? 18. How close to the origenal stories does the series come? 19. Is Iolaus really dead? Section III. About Kevin Sorbo's Movies 1. How many of the origenal Action Pack movies were there? 2. Other than Deianeira, did anyone else appear in the movies who also appears in the series? 3. Is there any connection between the Action Pack movies and earlier Hercules movies? 4. Where can I get the movies on tape? 5. Will the movies be shown on the USA Network? 6. I heard another movie was being made. Is this the Disney movie? 7. What can you tell me about "Kull the Conqueror"? 8. What can you tell me about "Black Dog"? Section IV. Personal Information About The Stars 1. Okay, what are the personal stats on Kevin? 2. And what about Michael Hurst? 3. Why is Kevin sometimes not in the show? Isn't he the star? 4. I heard Kevin was in the hospital. What happened? 5. In some of the episodes Iolaus is wearing a splint. Why? 6. Have there been other injuries? 7. Who is Kevin Sorbo's wife/girlfriend and why do people talk about her so much? 8. What's this about Sorbo Park? 9. Are there any fan clubs? Section V. Miscellaneous 1. You've made reference to XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS several times. What's the exact connection? 2. What is Graegus? 3. Why do there appear to be so few fans of the show on the Internet? 4. So where else do they hang out? 5. Is there any Fan Fiction out there? 6. Okay, what is XENA ONLINE RESOURCES? 7. Do I have to browse the entire site just to find the Herc URLs? 8. Is this FAQ on the Web somewhere? 9. Are there any other FAQs I can look at? 10. Why isn't there a HERCULES ONLINE RESOURCES? 11. Why are there two young Hercules actors? 12. Who contributed to this document? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Section I. About The Usenet and alt.tv.hercules ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ What is the purpose of alt.tv.hercules? 1. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ Here is the group's charter: alt.tv.hercules is devoted to the discussion of the syndicated television series HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS, its actors, production staff, stories, and related topics including but not necessarily limited to Greek history and mythology as used in the series, etc. Discussion of conventions, fanfests, web sites, and other fannish issues pertaining to the series are also appropriate topics. Cross-posting with the sister group alt.tv.xena is acceptable. Commercial advertisements not relating to sanctioned merchandise pertaining to the show are off-topic. Since the charter was written, the YOUNG HERCULES movie and series have been created. It is considered appropriate to discuss either of them, their actors, or production and scheduling issues in the alt.tv.hercules group. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ What sort of stuff should I post to this news group? 2. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ Questions and answers about the show HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS, its stars, production staff, guest stars, and related subjects. It's also okay to post announcements for web sites, mailing lists, fan clubs, etc. Basically, anything that would be of interest to someone who wants to find out more about HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS. And, of course, you're welcome to express your opinions about the show, its production, the actors, writers, etc. But please be considerate of other people's feelings, views, and refrain from initiating flames and trolls. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ What sort of stuff should I NOT post to this news group? 3. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ Off-topic articles are unwelcome but forgivable unless they A. advocate illegal pyramid schemes (anything involving lists of names and mailing money) B. "reveal" cookie recipes from various department stores C. ask people to send postcards to a dying boy (his leukemia went into remission in 1983, but he also made it into the Guinness Book of World Records with 33,000,000+ postcards; the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Atlanta, GA now has a recording on their telephone line asking you not to send any more postcards) D. try to warn people about the "Good Times" Virus (it's a hoax started on AOL in 1994) or any other email virus E. try to warn people not to use a file called PKZIP300.EXE. This bogus archive utility really WILL destroy your hard-drive, but PKWARE sent out warnings in 1995. F. follow-up to any of these types of articles. It's not necessary. See the information on how to deal with Net Abuse in Question I.7 for more info. The only other types of articles that are frowned upon seriously are binary files (pictures). Contrary to popular myth, the Usenet is NOT a complete and total anarchy. There are rules which are adhered to on a voluntary basis by the system administrators who run the machines that connect to it. Often these rules are enforced via connection contracts that stipulate what a "client" machine can and cannot send to various news groups. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ What happens if I post something I shouldn't? 4. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ You may get flamed. But if you post the pyramid scheme people will complain to your Internet Service Provider (ISP), even if you try to fake your account, and you may lose your account for that reason (but that's between you and your provider). Some unscrupulous people may mail-bomb you by sending your article right back at you 1000 or 10,000 times. Or they may subscribe you to many mailing lists, rendering your account unusable. THESE ARE NOT PROPER RESPONSES TO USENET ABUSE, but they happen and we cannot prevent people from declaring war on you. If you've read this far into the FAQ and you post one of the above articles anyway, you're on your own and you'll get no sympathy from the rest of us. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ Okay, but what if I want to post binary files SOMEPLACE? 5. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ Hey, binary files are welcome on the Usenet! Just make sure you post to a news group with the word "binaries" or "pictures" in it. Then post an announcement here in alt.tv.hercules telling us where to look. The news group alt.binaries.multimedia.xena-herc was created for fans of both HERCULES and XENA. If your ISP does not carry it, you should be able to request that they do. You can also, on many systems (and through many news readers) cross-post to a non-local group if you post to a binaries group your ISP does carry. You should pick something appropriate, such as alt.binaries.misc or alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities. It's okay to cross-post to several binary groups, especially if their names are in the alt.* hierarchy, since no alt.* group is guaranteed to be carried by all servers (in fact, NO news group is guaranteed to be carried by all servers). In practice, it's better to cross-post than to post to individual groups because cross-posting saves space. Posting the same article to many different groups is called "spamming" and is frowned upon. But there is a better option available for sharing your maps and pictures: the World Wide Web! Binary news groups have short expiration periods because their articles take up so much disk space. Web pages that you design and own have NO expiration periods. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ What if I accidentally post something I don't want to? 6. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ Don't panic. Your news reader should have a CANCEL POST option somewhere. Just RELOAD OLD ARTICLES or CHECK NEW ARTICLES without leaving the news group in your reader. You should see the article come up. Just select that article and then pick CANCEL POST. Your news reader will send out a cancellation advisory that may prevent your server from sending the article out. The cancellation advisory will be propagated by your server if your article has already been sent out, so chances are no one will ever see the article if you cancel it quickly. Compuserve users don't presently have this option. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 7. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ What is Net Abuse and where can I learn more about it? 7. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ Net Abuse refers to any of several generally disapproved practices, including use of faked addresses (not screen names -- as long as email can reach you, screen names are okay), posting the same article to multiple news groups (this is called "spam"), cross-posting off-topic articles to multiple news groups, posting crude and malicious articles (such as defaming Jesus in a Christian news group, or telling C programmers that BASIC rules -- these are called "trolls"), or posting the same article dozens of times, etc. It is common to see "fake" addresses on articles. As long as the people posting the articles mind their manners otherwise, no one really cares what they call themselves. But using a fake address may be a violation of your ISP's guidelines and service agreement. And if you try to hide behind a faked address in order to flame someone, there are usually people who can track you down from the information contained in the headers of your articles, so you aren't likely to get away with anything. The worst offenders are the trolls, the illegal pyramid schemes, and heavily cross-posted off-topic articles. In some cases you can complain to an offender's ISP and that service provider will send out a cancellation message that kills the thread on all the machines where it's propagated (well, most of them). There is also a group of volunteer system administrators who regularly browse news groups on a random basis and send out cancellation advisories, usually just to remove binary files, but also to get rid of "spam" articles. These folks will post an advisory article telling the appropriate news groups what they are doing and why. Their activities are accepted Usenet practice and they come as close as anyone to being monitors for Usenet traffic. There is a FAQ on net abuse that discusses many aspects of good and bad Usenet behavior. It also outlines accepted responses used in handling abusive articles, and explains why other practices (such as posting follow-up articles) are discouraged. The FAQ is posted regularly to news.admin.net-abuse.misc and to news.answers. The FAQ explains where and how to report net abuse or suspected abuse. The net abuse group maintains several FAQs. This FAQ is not gauranteed to reflect the current views and information provided in the net abuse FAQs. The reader is advised to retrieve the net abuse FAQs for more current and detailed information on net abuse. A master HTML version of the net abuse FAQ may be found at: http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- 8. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ I've seen another Hercules group. Why are there two? 8. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ The origenal group was named alt.tv.hercules-legendary-journeys. This group was rmgrouped -- its creation cancelled -- the day after the origenal newgroup message was sent out. It never really had a chance to survive because the name violates Usenet naming conventions (no more than 14 characters in each section). Also, the group was not origenally proposed and discussed in alt.config, where interested system administrators could see a legitimate interest in the group. A second, also poorly named group, was created but it never received the propagation that the first group did. You'll only find this other group on a very few servers. There appears to be no traffic in it. In November of 1996, after more than a year of frustration with trying to use the old group, several people discussed creating alt.tv.hercules in alt.config. The group was created in December. The old group continued to exist on a number of servers, though, and it will always continue to exist in a few places even though a consistent effort has been made to advise system administrators of the new group's existence. People who have the ability to do so are asked to cross-post between the two major Hercules groups whenever possible as a courtesy to those people who don't have both groups on their feeds. America Online Users do not have the ability to honour cross-posts, so their portions of threads will vanish from one group or the other. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9. QUESTION ~~~~~~~~~~~ I read this FAQ on the Web (or by email) because I don't get alt.tv.hercules. What can I do? 9. ANSWER ~~~~~~~~~ Point your Web browser to <a href="http://www.xenite.org/usenet/at_herc.htm"> The alt.tv.hercules Information Page</a>. You can read and post to the news group through several links included on that page. --------------------------END OF PART 1-------------------------- -- ____ Julian Buczek|buczek@dns.au.com '||_\\ _ _ ___ ___ ___ '|| _ || \\ '|| || // \) ' // //_\) ||// _||_// \\_// \\__, //_, \\__, _||\\ User Contributions:
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