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From: smwicke@ix.netcom.com (Sonjia Wicke)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.x-files.creative
Subject: The alt.tv.x-files.creative Commandments 1 - 12
Date: 28 Jun 1995 05:37:32 GMT
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Well, this certainly took off like lightning!  I have combined all the
commandments into one Holy Scripture so that all may hear the Word. 
Rejoice and be glad, fellow X-Philes!  (credits below...)


The alt.tv.x-files.creative Commandments:

Location:  Mt. Sinai
Time:  About 3500 years ago
Event:  Moishe Duchovny (David's Dad is Jewish) descends the mountain
after having gotten the commandments from The Lord.  He went up there
on an X-Files investigation to examine the Burning Bush Phenomena. 
Instead,he is coming down barefoot.  He left his sandals up there,
having had to take them off since he was standing on Holy Ground.  He
is holding the following document Etched by Lightning in the stone of
the mountain:

The X-Files Fan Fiction Commandments:

1) Thou Shalt Insert A Disclaimer In Thy Stories All Of Thy Days

2) Mulder Shalt Not Covet Dana's Ass  (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

3) Thou Shalt Not Give A Name To The Smoking Man

4) Thy Stories Shalt Always Involve A Paranormal Investigation

5) Thou Shalt Despise Melissa Scully

6) Thou Shalt Obey The Lord Thy God and His Self-Anointed (Stegall and
Fernandes) Or Risk The Lake of Flaming

7) Thou Shalt Obey all the above commandments and keep thy story
to lines of about 70 characters and never post a story with symbols
mixed with the text or risk losing your audience. 

     7a)Those violating Commandment 2 can post in a group that is more
     appropriate and just mention where.  Ditto for those posting      
     pictures and/or music.  

8) Thou shalt always consult authors before using their characters,
lest need stock in flame retardant underwear.

9) Thou shalt not kill off main characters, lest be subject to a truly
unnatural death  (Anik and Melissa, and now Ra -- geez, don't these
characters go through enough without you guys killing one off every
three seconds, or every third story, or whatever)

10) Thou shalt never bear false witness -- YOU  ARE  AN X-PHILE !!!

11) Thou shalt post thy stories in the accepted manner, yea, and that 
accepted manner shall be:
     a) 70 characters shall comprise one line;
     b) Let not thy postings be befuddled by high-ASCII characters,    
     lest we spend two weeks explaining what they be to others;
     c) Keep thou thy stories neatly divided into chunks, preferably 
     chunks of less than 32K, so that all, yea verily I say all, may   
     enjoy thy creative endeavor without pain.

12) Thou shalt not repost unless thy postings were eaten by the great 
demon Usenet, or unless thou hast refined thy story to a greater point 
than achieved by the first posting, or unless it has been a goodly
period of time since the first posting.  If someone hath lost thy story
and must retrieve it, direct them to the FTP sites or email it to them
privately, lest thou waste bandwidth, that holy gift of the Usenet
Lord.

Credit where credit is due...
Commandments 1 - 6  - mpileggi2@aol.com (MPileggi2) 
Commandments 7 - 7a - rad@crl.com (Robert A. DeLisle)
Commandments 8 - 10 - trel@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Rory "Calhoun"
Cottrell)
Commandments 11-12  - wildcard@shore.net (Janice Barlow)


-- 
Sonjia Wicke --> smwicke@ix.netcom.com

     DZ, X-phile, and Chief Geologist to the Queen of Valedmar
     *************************************************************
     "No one can take away your dignity unless you allow them to." - Eleanore Roosevelt

