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About InterText Magazine
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Send all correspondence to: intertext@etext.org.
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> Editor: Jason Snell (jsnell@etext.org)
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> Assistant Editor: Geoff Duncan (gaduncan@halcyon.com)
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> Assistant Editor: Susan Grossman (c/o intertext@etext.org)
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InterText is a free, on-line bi-monthly fiction magazine. It
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publishes material ranging from mainstream stories to fantasy to
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horror to science fiction to humor. InterText reaches thousands
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of readers on six continents and is now in its fifth year of
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publication.
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InterText Formats
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InterText publishes in ASCII/Setext (plain text), PostScript
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(laser printer), PDF (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format),
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and HTML (World Wide Web) formats.
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The ASCII/Setext version can be read by anyone, because it's in
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plain text. Users of setext browsers (like the Macintosh
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application Easy View and the UNIX application sv) can use their
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browser to index InterText and read it more easily.
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The PostScript version of InterText is meant to be sent to a
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PostScript or PostScript-compatible laser printer. This version
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looks like a traditional print magazine, including cover art
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(obviously unavailable to ASCII readers) and other layout
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touches. If you have access to a PostScript printer and are
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planning to read InterText on paper, this is the way to go.
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The PDF version of InterText is for Mac, Windows, DOS and UNIX
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users who either don't have a PostScript printer or don't wish
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to print InterText. The PDF version is based on our PostScript
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edition, so it includes all the graphics, fonts, and layouts of
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that version -- but you can read it on-screen or print it out to
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a non-PostScript printer if you so choose.
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Reading it requires Acrobat viewer, available via FTP from Adobe
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at:
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<ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Applications/Acrobat/>
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How to Subscribe
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Send mail to intertext@etext.org. In the Subject: header,
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specify which subscription list you'd like to be on by using one
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of the following subjects:
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subscribe ascii
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subscribe ps
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subscribe notification
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This will let us automatically process your subscription
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request. If you have a special request, be sure not to put any
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of the above headers in your subject line.
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We offer editions in the following formats:
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* ASCII - Our ASCII issue will be sent directly to your mailbox.
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(Size: 100-250K, usually split into two or three messages of
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less than 100K)
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* PostScript - Our PostScript issue will be sent to your
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mailbox, compressed and uuencoded as a MIME attachment. NOTE:
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subscribers who want to read the PostScript files _and_ have FTP
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access are requested to use the 'Notification List' (see below),
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since it lightens the load on mail servers and decreases net
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traffic. (If you can't accept mail in this form but would still
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be interested in getting the PostScript edition, send the
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editors some e-mail. We have a few small speciality PostScript
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lists for those who can't get our issue in one bulk uuencoded
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mime attachment.)
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* Notification List - For Internet, CompuServe, and AOL users
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who would prefer to use FTP to retrieve our issues (and save on
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net e-mail bandwidth), for people who'd rather read our issues
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on the World Wide Web, and for users of on-line services like
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CompuServe and America Online who would rather download the
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issue from a file area on their home system. Subscribers to this
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list will just receive a brief note letting them know when a new
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issue has been released. If you'd like to read the PDF files,
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this is also your way of knowing they're out there.
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For Prospective Writers
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If you're interested in writing for InterText, send a message to
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intertext@etext.org with the word 'guidelines' in the subject
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for a copy of our Writers Guidelines.
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Simply put, InterText accepts most kinds of fiction and will
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consider non-fiction work. However, the magazine is not
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equivalent to an unmoderated newsgroup; the editors accept only
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stories which they feel are of publishable quality.
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New writers are encouraged to submit; InterText's place as an
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on-line publication allows us to give unpublished writers their
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first chances. The magazine has published numerous first-time
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writers, as well as several established authors.
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The electronic medium is faceless; all writers are given an
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equal hearing regardless of background or experience.
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Back Issues
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If you'd like to see back issues of InterText, you can FTP
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them from:
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> ftp.etext.org (192.131.22.7) in /Zines/InterText
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or (except PDF files)
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> network.ucsd.edu (128.54.16.3) in /intertext
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Login as anonymous, with your e-mail address as your password.
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On the World-Wide Web, point your WWW browser to this URL:
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> http://ftp.etext.org/Zines/InterText/
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If you subscribe to CompuServe, you can read our issues in the
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Forum, accessible by typing GO
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EFFSIG. The issues are located in the 'Zines from the Net'
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section of EFFSIG. Our recent issues don't appear in the EFF
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forum, because it's overcrowded. But CompuServe users can now
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use FTP (GO FTP) and ftp to ftp.etext.org (see above) for our
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issues.
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On America Online, issues are available in Keyword: PDA, in
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(Mac users): Software Libraries->Ezine Libraries->Writing->InterText
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(PC users): Palmtop Paperbacks->Ezine Libraries->Writing->InterText
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or via Internet FTP (see above) at Keyword FTP.
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If you have any other questions, feel free to mail the
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editors at intertext@etext.org.
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Jason Snell
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Editor, InterText
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Geoff Duncan and Susan Grossman
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Assistant Editors, InterText
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intertext@etext.org
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