Sailor Moon FAQ              Original written by Ken Arromdee
                             ROT-13 decoded by Ming S. Chan

Reason Behind This Release
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Ken Arromdee's Sailor Moon FAQ is a very informative guide to the show and
other miscellaneous information about the show.  However, he did one thing
to the FAQ - in order to protect spoilers (information that came from
episodes not yet shown on North American airwave,) he encrypted these
spoilers using ROT-13.  Despite of the public complaint shown in Usenet,
he continues to ROT-13 part of the FAQ, and causes difficulty for people
who have trouble decoding it.

That is the reason behind this release.  I have taken the original FAQ
written by Ken, and replaced all the ROT-13 text with decoded normal text.
The result is the same FAQ, but free of any encryption.

Common Questions, Answers and Misconceptions
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1.  ROT-13 decryption is available on virtually all newsreaders.

    This perhaps is true under Unix environment, but since the Internet
    explosion two years back, many PC-based BBSes are carrying Usenet
    Newsgroups (CRS Online, the system which I am a member for over 5
    years, is one example,) and many users go this route to participate
    in Usenet at a lower cost compared to a full-blown Internet account
    from an Internet provider.  Under those systems, ROT-13 decryption
    is virtually non-existant.

    Also, most people I know do not fire up their newsreaders everytime to
    read a commonly-used article.  They usually save it to the file,
    download it to their home PC and read it at their leisure.  Once you
    leave the newsreader, you also depart with the ROT-13 feature of the
    reader.

2.  Is there anything changed in the FAQ?

    Besides the replacement of the ROT-13 text, not a word is changed or
    modified from the original FAQ.

3.  Why don't you post it to the newsgroup?

    I could have done so very easily, but I decided not to do so.  This is
    because while I do not agree with Ken's decision to encrypt part of the
    text, I respect his decision to do so.  Posting the decoded text, in my
    opinion, is disrespectful to the original author.

4.  Should I post the decoded part in public newsgroup?

    Although I don't recommend it for the reason above, I won't stop you
    from doing so.

5.  Questions about the show and other information about the show.

    I am a Sailor Moon newbie, and I have never watched Sailor Moon before.
    In fact, I missed many episodes at the beginning (the FOX special and
    most of the Jadeite episodes.)  If you have questions about SM not
    answered in the FAQ, please post you question on the newsgroup and
    others should be able to help you out.

    If you have questions about the act of decoding the FAQ, or distribution
    of the decoded FAQ, then by all means please drop me a line.  Send
    all flames to /dev/null.  :-)

Happy Sailor Moon watching!

Ming S. Chan
u9014958@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca
ming.chan@canrem.com