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This FAQ will be posted about monthly to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes, and will probably find a permanent home on someone's web page eventually.

Please send any comments, questions, additions, corrections and all that sort of stuff to the editor (Vicky Chapman, aka "Yowie") at yowie9644@yahoo.com.au

1 CONTENTS
2 FREQUENCY & LOCATION
3 PURPOSE
4 CONTRIBUTORS
5 WHAT IS REC.PETS.CATS.ANECEDOTES?
  5.1 HOW THE GROUP CAME TO BE
  5.2 THE CHARTER
  5.3 THE CATS
   5.3.1 The Names of our Cats
   5.3.2 Cat Colours
6 LOCAL CUSTOMS
  6.1 MANNERS
    6.1.1 Why are you shouting? Why are you typing in all-caps?
    6.1.2 You owe me a new keyboard!
    6.1.3 Don't you folk know how to quote and trim properly?
    6.1.4 Can't you spell?
    6.1.5 Darn it, half these posts aren't even about cats!
    6.1.6 Some people have even posted about dogs and other animals.
    6.1.7 What does that "SV:" mean in the subject line?
  6.2 TABOOS
    6.2.1 Advocating, endorsing, glorifying or otherwise encouraging animal cruelty
    6.2.2 Advocating declawing except for real medical reasons.
    6.2.3 The indoor/outdoor debate.
    6.2.4 Not spaying/neutering.
  6.3 JARGON
    6.3.1 Acronyms
    6.3.2 Terms
  6.4 IN JOKES
    6.4.1 Your Majesty, the cat.
    6.4.2 The Mothership
    6.4.3 Greeblings
    6.4.4 Schrodinger's Cat
    6.4.5 The First Church of the Porcelain Three-Three
    6.4.6 The Troll-be-cue
    6.4.7 Its Yowie's Fault
  6.5 RITUAL
    6.5.1 Spanky
    6.5.2 Waffles & Jill
7 POSTING GUIDE
  7.1 WHAT NOT TO POST
    7.1.1 Posts in HTML format
    7.1.2 Files and attachments
     7.1.2.1 But how are you supposed to see this adorable picture of my cat if I can't attach it to my message?
    7.1.3 Huge Signature Files
    7.1.4 SPAM
      7.1.4.1 Sex
      7.1.4.2 Commercial Advertising
      7.1.4.3 What about cat related products?
    7.1.5 Netiquette and Spelling Flames
    7.1.6 Being A Jerk
    7.1.7 Bonsai Kittens
  7.2 OTHER GUIDELINES
    7.2.1 Lurk for a while
    7.2.2 The "my mother may be reading this" guideline
    7.2.3 Use of Warning Tags in the subject line
    7.2.4 Crossposting
      7.2.4.1 Trimming Newsgroups
    7.2.5 Multiposting
    7.2.6 Replying
      7.2.6.1 Placement of the reply
      7.2.6.2 Quoting & Snipping
      7.2.6.3 Attribution
      7.2.7 Off Topic
8 I WANT MORE!
  8.1 CATSLAVES
    8.1.1 How to become a member
    8.1.2 Chat
       8.1.2.1 The Chat Room
       8.1.2.2 IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
       8.1.2.3 Yahoo Instant Messenger Voice Conference
  8.1 Newsgroups
  8.2 ARCHIVES
    8.2.1 Flippy's Cat Page
    8.2.2 David Stevenson's Cat Pages
  8.3 HOMEPAGES
9 GRIEF & BEREAVEMENT.
  9.1 RAINBOW BRIDGE
  9.2 OTHER RESOURCES IN YOUR TIME OF GRIEF
  9.3 LEAVING CATS IN YOUR WILL
10 CAT HEALTH ISSUES
  10.1 FLEAS
  10.2 DIET
    10.2.1 Milk & dairy products
    10.2.2 Chocolate, Cocoa & Coffee
    10.2.3 Onions
    10.2.4 Other food
  10.3 CATNIP
  10.4 ANTIFREEZE POISONING
11 I'M ALLERGIC TO CATS
12 USENET QUESTIONS
  12.1 I DIDN'T SEE THAT POST THAT EVERYONE IS REPLYING TO.
    12.1.1 Finding "Lost" messages
  12.2 BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE ARCHIVED
  12.3 IT SAYS THEIR E-MAIL ADDRESS IS INVALID
  12.4 HOW DO I STOP THIS SPAM?
  12.5 HOW DO I KILLFILE?
    12.5.1 Outlook Express