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• Who wrote this FAQ?

Pre-November 1997: Jason Alan "P7A77" Pfaff / rhps@p7a77.net

• Who helped out?

Please refer to P7A77's farewell for this information.

• Who's taking it over?

Larry Viezel / larryv@rockyhorror.org and / Ruth Fink-Winter

• Who designed the web page and made the graphics?

Again, that was me, Jason Alan "P7A77" Pfaff. Most of the source graphics involving images from the movie were scanned by me, though some were taken from Zenin's photo archive. However, every graphic on this page, including the background, has been in some way edited by me so as to fit in with the overall design. The "blood font" letters were created by making a basic letter template and using ye olde cut-n-paste.

• What's the history of this FAQ?

It all started back in the summer of '93. No, this isn't the introduction to a bad romance novel. While reading messages on a.c-m.r-h, I couldn't help but notice the absence of a FAQ. Being the self-declared expert on RHPS that I am, I decided to do it myself. I was bored. I had nothing else to do.

Version 0 (the beta-test version) of the text version was finished by the end of the summer, and within a year, I was well on my way to Version 2. The FAQ received oodles of praise and encouragement, and grew with the help of practically everybody on the Net.

Version 3 of the text version was written to coincide with the release of Version 1.0 of the World Wide Web version. It was heavily reworked and expanded, in order to include most of the information from the WWW version. The WWW version was conceived near the end of the spring of '95, for pretty much the same reason that started the FAQ in the first place - I couldn't find any "definitive" RHPS page, and I had nothing else to do. It probably would have surfaced much earlier, except that I had become extremely overworked in the previous couple of years.

Version 3.3 introduced a re-worked web page. Same basic idea, but slightly different layout and much better graphics.

Version 3.4 marked the move to rhps.com.

Version 3.9z marks my final version of it and the transition to Larry.

Version 4.0 is the first revision by Larry and Ruth.

• Can I copy any of the information in this FAQ?

Technically, no. By law, everything posted to the Internet is automatically copyrighted. However, since a lot of this information was collected from outside sources in the first place, I'm not too strict with it. The text version of the FAQ may be reproduced, in part or in whole, as long as the title credit screen is included. You are more than welcome to use any of the information in here to impress your friends, but if they ask how you know so much, I'd like it if you told them. :)

I encourage printing this FAQ out for your cast, and other similar uses, but if you wish to use it for something else, or if you wish to modify it in any way, please notify me and ask for permission. We do ask that you not post the entire FAQ on your website, merely because then when we update it, you no longer have the most current version. There are lots of outdated versions of the RH FAQ floating around the World Wide Web on defunct pages, and it really yanks our chain when search engines find them instead of the updated original.

This FAQ may never be sold for profit, unless, of course, a large enough amount of money is offered, and the person receiving it is me.

• Can I copy the graphics for use on my own page?

Aside from using one as a link to this page, I would prefer that you didn't, as they were all edited by me for use in this page, and I don't feel that it's particularly fair or respectful to use them in a different context. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to prevent you other than ask you not to.

• Can I link to the FAQ from my page?

Please do. I ask, though, that you link to the main page (http://rockyhorror.org/faq/) and not to any of the other pages, as I periodically reorganize and rename my files. The main page is the only one that is guaranteed to always work.

• Where should I send comments, bug reports, compliments, etc.?

To sing the praises of past versions of the FAQ, simply send email to Jason Alan "P7A77" Pfaff at rhps@p7a77.net. For suggestions on future versions, corrections, etc, send email to Ruth Fink-Winter.

• How should I pronounce that name?

Pfaff:

I pronounce it as Pfaff (combining the "p" and first "f", and with a short "a", all one syllable), though many people have created their own pronunciations (Pea-Faff, Faff, Puh-Faff, Puh-Fuh-Ah-Fuh-Fuh, etc.). Make something up.

P7A77:

Pea-Seven-Aye-Seven-Seven. No, those aren't Z's.

Viezel:

Either Vee-zell (emphasis on the zell) or Vye-zell, depending on marital status.

Fink-Winter:

While somewhat difficult to spell, this name is refreshingly easy to pronounce.

• How can I get the hell out of here?

Depends on what you're using to be on here in the first place. Try typing 'quit' or some such thing. If you're using a browser such as Netscape, close the window. If you're on through a text-based program such as Lynx, hit 'q'. If you're on through a modem connection, you could try disconnecting the modem. Unplugging the computer usually works, too.

Have a nice day!

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