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Section 0: Administrivia and Acknowledgements
0.1) Where can I get a recent copy of this document?
0.2) Whom should I flame for anything I don't like about this FAQL?
0.3) What is on the To Do list?
0.3 a) What projects are up for grabs?
0.3 b) What projects are people working on now?
* 0.4) Recent changes to this list
0.5) Acknowledgements
0.6) Disclaimer
0.7) Notice of copyright
Subject: Where can I get a recent copy of this document?
Q0.1) The most recent version of this multi-part frequently asked questions list (FAQL) is posted to the Usenet newsgroups alt.backrubs, alt.answers and
news.answers every 14 days. Copies of major releases of this FAQL are kept in the alt.backrubs archive (see question 5.1.2). The news.answers
version of this FAQL can be obtained via anonymous FTP from the rtfm.mit.edu site in directory `/pub/usenet-by-group/alt.backrubs/' or `/pub/usenet/alt.answers/backrubs/faq'
(<URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/alt.backrubs/> or
<URL:ftp:///pub/usenet/alt.answers/backrubs/faq> in the standard notation).
Only if you cannot use anonymous FTP should you retrieve it by sending email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
with the command send usenet/alt.answers/backrubs/faq/* in the message. See question 5.2 for more details.
Please note that this document has been produced for free distribution. You should not have to pay anyone to obtain a copy.
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Subject: Whom should I flame for anything I don't like about this FAQL?
Q0.2) nobody (sic), of course! Any additions or suggestions or discussion should be mailed to the FAQL maintainer <jamie@csd.uwo.ca>
and to Kjartan Clausen <kjartan@ii.uib.no> who maintains the WWW version of the FAQL.
This document is produced entirely by volunteer labour. The maintainer is not a massage professional. All mail about the FAQL sent to the FAQL
maintainer will be acknowledged within seven days of receipt (usually on the day of receipt). If you haven't received a notice of receipt within two
weeks then something is wrong. <<top
Subject: To Do
Q0.3) This FAQL is mostly finished but additions are welcome. There are still some things I'd like to have added or changed:
- I need to prune some entries from the WWW list in part 5 (people can find these themselves easily enough now)
- I think the part about massaging towards the heart needs to be rewritten, but I don't have the time
- some paragraphs that summarize all the advice about oils in all the various files about massage oil in the archive
If you would like to volunteer :) to write some or all of the answers please contact the FAQL maintainer <jamie@csd.uwo.ca>.
The file `faql.to-add' in the archive (see question 5.1.2) may contain postings that I would like to have incorporated into the FAQL.
Please use e-mail to submit updates or additions to this FAQL to <jamie@csd.uwo.ca>, and send a copy to Kjartan
Clausen <kjartan@ii.uib.no> so that it can be incorporated into the WWW version too.
Here are some ongoing projects related to alt.backrubs:
- Lorre Smith <ls973@cnsvax.albany.edu>, a senior professional librarian, is preparing a proper index of
the archive. On 30 July 1996 I received a draft copy! The wheels are turning.
- Karin Muglach <muglach@kis.uni-freiburg.de> and certified advanced Rolfing Structural Integration
practitioner Linda Grace <LLG3@aol.com> might still be working on definitions of Rolfing and Alexander therapies for
question 2.2, but the Rolf Institute (See question 2.2q) are working on their own description too. <<top
Subject: Recent changes to this FAQL
Q0.4)
Since 13 April 2001
Minor editing in Q1.7 (`Does anyone discuss anything here anymore?').
Also in Q1.7: specific mention of misc.health.alternative (before it was just alt.health.massage-therapy and BODYWORK).
Sections 2 & 5: some of the longer questions now point back to the complete list of subsections in this section.
Questions 2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.6: added a list of subtopics to the beginning of the question.
Question 5.1.3 `The World Wide Web version of the alt.backrubs FAQL' notes that it is very out of date.
Added reference to Section 0 after each table of contents (did not updated last-modified date though).
Pruned extinct entries (and updated URLs) in question 5.2.3 (`Reference: World Wide Web Sites'). <<top
Subject: Acknowledgements
Q0.5) Many parts of this FAQL are almost identical to those posted by amw@math.columbia.edu (Winkler) on 3
Dec 1992 (see the `faql.all' file in the archive). Andrew Winkler <amw@ckp.com> deserves a lot of credit for the work
he did. Specifically, questions 0.2, 1.1, 2.1-2.5, 3.1-3.5 and 4.1 began as questions in the original FAQL. Some of them have changed very little from
the originals (e.g., 3.3), some have undergone major stylistic changes but are essentially the same (e.g., 2.5). Question 1.1 is completely changed.
The introductory portion of this article have been adapted from the same section in the comp.lang.c FAQL (message-ID <1994Jan01.0300.scs.0001@eskimo.com>,
posted on 1 Jan 1994) which is copyright 1988, 1990-1993 by Steve Summit. Steve Summit also suggested corrections to several typos in every part except
4. Many of the additions to question 2.2 (types of bodywork) have been adapted from a post by MayaWay <mayaway@aol.com>
for the Maine Massage Guild (message-ID <3kuukf$ppt@newsbf02.news.aol.com>). Yonina Chernick,
RMT and Keith Grant provided extensive help in adapting the definition of craniosacral therapy in that question. Part of the answer to question 4.6 has
been adapted from postings by Richard Karasik (Message-ID <36a84q$8o6@warthog.eng.octel.com>),
Terry Norman (Message-ID <tnt-1112942356590001@ftw04.onramp.net>) and the answer to a similar
question (#41) in the 13 Mar 1995 version of the Usenet FAQL (message-ID <D657pw.CpE@deshaw.com>, posted to
news.announce.newusers and news.answers on 28 Mar 1995 by Mark Moraes <netannounce@deshaw.com>).
The definition of fascia in question 2.6 is adapted from p.1045 of volume II of _International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology: in
three volumes_, (c)1986 by John Wiley & Sons. The Editor-in-Chief is Sidney I. Landau and the ISBN is 0-471-01849. The title of 1.3 d) (`"Please, sir, I
want some more."') is a quotation from chapter 2 of Charles Dickens's novel _Oliver Twist_. Margaret Ann LaChance <mlachanc@frog.thpl.lib.fl.us>
provided a guaranteed correct expansion for the ABMP acronym.
The FAQL used to include definitions of Alexander, Feldenkreis and Rolfing that were provided by Karen Muglach <muglach@kis.uni-freiburg.de>
from the book _Rolfing Movement Integration_ by Mary Bond (Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont, 1993, ISBN 0-89281-444-6). The book has been
reprinted in late July 1996 with the title _BALANCING YOUR BODY: A Self-Help Approach to Rolfing Movement_. Those descriptions have been removed at the
request of the publisher.
The FAQL has been posted by J. Blustein <jamie@csd.uwo.ca> for many years, but is now posted by a
kind soul (or daemon) at another site.
J. Blustein remains responsible for its content. The following (in alphabetical order by surname) are collaborating to edit and amend the FAQL: Bill
Arnett <Bill.Arnett@mindlink.bc.ca>, Kjartan Clausen <kjartan@ii.uib.no>,
Corrina Perrone <corrina@cs.colorado.edu>, John Cole <jcole@mts.mhs.compuserve.com>,
julian collier <jcollier@nyx.cs.du.edu>, Keith Grant <keg@strathspey.llnl.gov>
and Lawrence Warnock <Massage@ix.netcom.com>. Please send mail about this FAQL to
jamie@csd.uwo.ca, not to the other members of the `alt.backrubs team'.
The following have made suggestions that are incorporated into this FAQL: A A Adams <aaa@scs.leeds.ac.uk>,
Steve Albertson <salbert@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de>,
Brian Carter <Brian_Carter@pop.com>, Kjartan Clausen, John Cole, Marcus Cox <macox@sunsite.unc.edu>,
Keith Grant, ElGreene <elgreene@aol.com>, Kim G. Kofmel <kkofmel@julian.uwo.ca>,
Caroline Knight <cdfk@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Kevin Kunz <FootC@aol.com>,
Margaret Ann LaChance <mlachanc@frog.thpl.lib.fl.us>, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <london@sunSITE.unc.edu>,
MayaWay <mayaway@aol.com>, Deanna McHugh, Lee Murray <bh295@freenet.carleton.ca>,
Terry Norman <tnt@onramp.net>, Brother Bernard Seif <monk@epix.net>, Stormwind <amazon@kisio.engr.sgi.com>
and Sam Waring <waring@ima.infomail.com> <<top
Subject: Where is that pesky Disclaimer?
Q0.6) Right here:
All the answers in these postings have been included with good intentions but none of them are guaranteed to be completely accurate. The `alt.backrubs
team' have endeavoured to ensure that the information in these postings is correct and reasonably complete but cannot warrant their suitability for any
purpose. None of them acknowledge any liability resulting from any mistakes contained in these postings or from the application of anything contained in
these postings. If you have a health problem you should consult a health care professional (and we hope you get better soon). <<top
Subject: Notice of copyright
Q0.7) All six parts of the alt.backrubs frequently asked questions list (hereafter called `the document') are copyright by J. Blustein and have been
since 1994. All rights reserved. This is also true of all versions that did not have this explicit notice but were posted by J. Blustein, i.e. all but
the two that Winkler posted. Andrew Winkler holds the
copyright on the two versions that he posted. <<top
You are free to use the document for your own personal use. You are free to distribute the document so long as all six parts are
present and none of them have been modified.
If you wish to distribute an incomplete or modified version of the document you must obtain permission from J. Blustein <jamie@csd.uwo.ca>
in advance. I expect you will find the conditions completely reasonable, but permission must still be obtained in advance. <<top
--
Jamie Blustein <jamie@csd.uwo.ca>
No trees were destroyed to create this post.
Question 0.1 (above) tells you how to get a copy of this article.
You should not have to pay to get any (or all) of the six parts of this FAQL.
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