You can post either joining theocslash yahoogroup, or sending me (WebMistress) the story directly. If you send me the story directly, please, let me know whether you want me to post the story to the group or not. If you only want the story to be in the Archive, I'll do as requested.

Also, please, follow there guidelines. It'll make my life much, much happier and easier. 

Subject Line

A format as shown below is recommended, as some list members may wish to separate fiction postings from general discussion: 

FIC: Story Title (Part number/Total # of parts) 

If you are posting as you write, and don't know how long your story will be, put "?" as the total number of parts.

Headers within Message Text 

The following is the suggested information to include before the text of the your story.

Title
Author -- Please include your email address here as well if you wish it to be listed in the archive. If your email address if not here, it will not appear with the story in the archive.
Pairing -- (Ryan/Seth, Seth/Luke... you catch my drift)
Raiting (G to NC-17) - Use your best judgment
Spoilers -- Warn, if necesarry
Category -- Romance, Visual, Drama, Humor...
Summary -- Just a couple of lines
Warnings -- Note any content that some people might be sensitive to: rape, character death, graphic violence, graphic sex, violent sex... use your judgment.

Your Story

The following information is very important! Proper story formatting will make your text easier to read for everyone on-list, and it will also save the archivist (me) a LOT of work in converting text postings to html files. 

DO NOT use smart-quotes or other special formatting some word processors substitue for hyphens, ellipses, etc. Smart-quotes screw up a lot of people's email readers, and it's just a pain to try and read those stories. I tend to disregard them, the moment I see weird symbols instead of letters.
It also gives the archivist (me) more work to do to strip all these characters out. The easiest way to deal with this problem is to save your stories in TEXT ONLY format in your word processing file. Then CLOSE the file. Re-open it, THEN cut-and-paste the text into your email message. 

DO NOT post stories as attachments or in Word, Wordperfect or other word-processing file formats at the list. If you wish to send it to me directly, that's fine, but at the list, use the body of the message.

DO post your stories in plain old ASCII text. In your wordprocessor this may also be known as MS-DOS text, or Simple Text or Generic Text or such. If you want to indicate such things as italicized or bold text, please use text symbols such as ~this~ or *this*. I will convert them into html code for the website. 

DO double-space between paragraphs. Simply indenting the paragraphs often isn't enough--tabs can get swallowed, it's easier to read with a space between paragraphs, and it makes the archivist's life easier (see a trend with that last reason here?

If you have any request, any question, anything at all, just send me a post. I'm reachable at all times (except when I'm studying, but that hardly ever happens).

Also, if you want me to post a new version of the story, or the betad version, just send it along and I'll replace the text.