The rec.arts.tv FAQL:

Last updated:  February 1, 2004.
This version:  8.00
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Section 2.2: "I've written a TV episode guide/FAQ, and I want to get it up on the net. What do I do?!"

Answer: Well, you have several options.

If you have access to an internet provider that allows users to set up their own WWW or FTP site, then I strongly advise you to put your guide up either on the Web, or make it available via FTP, or both.

If you don't know how to do this, you have two options:

  1. Find out how! (you probably should anyway!), or
  2. Send your guide along to the "The Episode Guides Page" web site.

The Episode Guides Page/TV Tome sites are the main archives for TV episode guides right now. I strongly urge anyone with a guide to send it along to "The Episode Guides Page" web site. Their URL and E-mail address are below (see also the "Episode Guide, 'Spoiler' & Review WWW Sites for TV" section):

An explanation of how to set up a web page using HTML is beyond the scope of this document. But a simple word processor, or an application dedicated to web page design, and any of the number of books out there on HTML, and/or a couple of examples of downloaded HTML source code from web pages you like, should get you well on your way.

If a newsgroup, and/or mail list, exists for the show that you've written the guide/FAQ for (see the list of TV newsgroups and mail lists in this FAQ), you should (regularly) post the guide to that newsgroup (and to rec.arts.tv, if you feel that's appropriate), and/or to the mail list. Or, at the very least, you should regularly post a message to the newsgroup or mail list describing how your guide/FAQ can be obtained. If it's a true FAQ, you may also want to look into making it "official" with news.answers (send E-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the command "send usenet/news.answers/news-answers/guidelines" for more information).


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