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Archive-name: tv/x-files/ukfaq_part2
Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: 31 March 1997 Version: 4.05 URL: http://www.netvision.co.uk/x-files/home.html See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Part 2 of The UK TXF FAQ What is The X-Files? BBC Season Three started on BBC 1 on Thursday 12th September at 9.30pm, with the end-of-season-2 climax episode, Anasazi, aired a few days before on Monday 9th September. The BBC have aired all but one episode of the third series, with the last episode "Talitha Cumi" still to be broadcasted. It is thought that the BBC may transmit it at the beginning of the fourth season on terrestrial television. Sky Season 3 has been aired on Sky One, Tuesdays at 9pm, uncut!! (well, almost.) Season 4 began on Sunday, January 12, 1997 at 9pm with "Herrenvolk".Sky will follow the US broadcast order, and will also probably air previous episodes every fourth week to avoid catching up with the USA and The X-Files production! The X-Files is produced by Ten Thirteen Productions for Twentieth Century Fox Television. About The X-Files is a television program that deals with the paranormal. There are two main characters, Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny). Both work for the FBI, in the Violent Crimes section. Neither character is normally referred to by their forenames; they refer to each other as 'Scully' and 'Mulder'. The characters work from opposite viewpoints, Mulder being the believer and Scully being the dis-believer. Scully was assigned to help Mulder with the X-Files and to debunk his theories. She has been unable to do this with some of the cases. The majority of The X-Files is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. The X-Files is NOT based on true events or real FBI X Files. The episodes are fiction, the plots loosely based on news reports of unexplained events around the world and other unexplained phenomena.The pilot does open with a note saying that the events were based on an actual real life story, but was not meant to imply that they are real X Files. Newsgroup uk.media.tv.sf.x-files posting guidelines Purpose of the newsgroup The purpose of uk.media.tv.sf.x-files is to facilitate discussion about the television programme The X-Files from a UK perspective.It was created as the American groups contained spoiler information from episodes yet to be seen in the UK. Spoilers The subject of spoilers has aroused much debate in the news group.It generates such strong feelings that it was felt necessary to include a section in this FAQ outlining the majority view on the subject. * Absolutely no spoilers for episodes yet to be broadcast in the UK to be posted. Any person breaking this is likely to be soundly flamed. (This includes information gained from attendance at conferences.) * Any discussion of an episode broadcast on Sky (satellite) which has not been seen on the BBC, must have "spoiler protection" - see below. This essentially means Season 4, which has not been shown terrestrially yet. Spoiler protection Articles which require spoiler protection (see above), should observe the following guidelines. The subject line should be of the form: *SPOILER* E3.19 Hell Money Where "E3.19" is season 3, episode 19, and "Hell Money" is the name of the episode. The body of the article should have a minimum of 25 lines of spoiler space (i.e. blank lines). If your software allows please also add a Ctrl-L character to this. General netiquette Here are some general guidelines on what is and is not generally considered acceptable practice in uk.media.tv.sf.x-files. Their intended purpose is not to hinder discussion but to enhance it. * Do not post binaries. Users of most dial-up connections have to pay for the time they are on-line receiving news, so will not appreciate a large GIF deposited in their news base via their phone line.If you do have an image which you feel will enhance the lives of others, put it on an ftp site, so only those who want it need download it. *Alternatively*, make a posting to the newsgroup with alt.binaries.xfiles posting as the subject, and in the body of the article, list the subjects of the binaries posted to the alt.binaries.x-files newsgroup, along with a description of what the binary is. In addition to this, the news administrators at certain sites do not carry binary groups due to disk space requirements, so lots of people posting binaries is likely to get the group removed from some news sites, reducing propagation. * Make sure your postings are word wrapped to around 72 columns at most. Many users read news on 80 column screens (or 80 column fixed font windows in graphical interfaces) and so postings which exceed this and overflow each line are very unreadable and might not be read. Setting the width to 72 allows your article to be quoted and re-quoted without exceeding 80 columns. * Keep your signature to reasonable proportions. The accepted Usenet limits are a maximum of 4 lines long, less than 80 characters wide. This is for reasons of both bandwidth (cost to dial-up users) and courtesy to others (a 20 line ASCII art representation of the view from your living room may be impressive once, but needless to say 3 or 4 viewings later it can become very tedious indeed). * Do not quote entire articles when following up. Please only quote enough of the article to give context to your reply. It is considered very bad practice to quote headers and/or signatures as there is no need for it - headers in particular are very boring things indeed. * Read your article before posting it. Make sure you take the time to re-read your words of wisdom before posting them, to check that it all makes sense and you aren't about to start a flame war... * Please keep postings on-topic to The X-Files. Please refrain from discussing your next door neighbour's cat or what your favourite flavour of ice cream is. There are places for such discussions but uk.media.tv.sf.x-files is not one of them. * Do not post private email without the author's permission This is equivalent to broadcasting the contents of a private letter or phone call on national TV without authorization from the sender. * Do not post advertisements. Only on-topic adverts *may* be considered acceptable, e.g.conventions with a X-Files element. Think very carefully before submitting any sort of advert. * Do not post test messages. There are several groups specifically for test messages. Most will also generate email responses automatically from across the world to confirm article propagation. Three I know of are: demon.test, uk.test, and misc.test. If you require further guidance on netiquette, you should take the newsgroup news.announce.newusers which is low traffic and moderated. === The uk.media.tv.sf.x-files Home Page: (Sponsored by Netvision) = http://www.netvision.co.uk/x-files ===== = http://pillar.ncl.ac.uk/~naj5/x-files/ = = = ===== Software Applications Engineer, Metrica Systems, Bath, UK ==== User Contributions:
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