Instructions from Fred Camper on How Members Can Get Bios Into the Files Section 
of the Internet Film Discussion Group, a_film_by:

Email your bio or a revision of your existing bio (please send the whole thing) in plain text
format to Fred Camper at f@fredcamper.com. To create a plain text document in a word processing 
program, when you go to save it change the file format before saving to "plain text." 
It's suggested that you include your year of birth and your approximate location if possible. 
Include links to any Web sites you may have. If you maintain your own Web site, you might want to 
simply put your bio there and send me only the link to it. For new or revised bios, I will add 
the month received so that people can see when your text was written.

Please do not format titles as all caps, which I think is ugly. Use normal proper capitalization
including for European titles. On our "Bios" page, titles will be in italics. Please proofread 
your bio and double-check film titles and filmmaker names and other names against a reliable
source.

Alternatively, if you want to make my life easier, submit your bio with html commands. 
It's not a bad idea to learn some simple html commands anyway; it might prove useful to know a few.

Here's what to do to include html commands:

1. Begin every paragraph with the html tag for a paragraph break, which is <p>

2. Do not capitalize film titles, format them as italics. In html all text after <em> is in
 italics, and to end the italics you place </em> at the end. Thus: <em>The Art of Vision</em>
 would appear in italics on an html page if you submit it this way to me in your bio. 
 (Note: The old commands for italics are <i> and </i>, but it has been suggested that using 
 the new ones is preferred.)

3. The other command you are most likely to want is the one for hyperlinks. The html command 
 for a link takes this form: <a href="http://www.restofurlgoeshere">Name of words to be 
 linked on go here</a>. (See the example below for further clarification.)

4. I'm going to keep this page pretty simple. Do not submit commands for boldface, 
 underlining, funny fonts, linked pictures, et cetera. If you want a fancy-looking bio, 
 put it on the Web yourself and send me the link.

Here's a simple sample, using myself. If you copy the two paragraphs below into your text editor
or word processing program you might find it easier to copy and paste in the tags and your own
text.

<p><a href="http://www.fredcamper.com">Fred Camper</a> was born in 1947. Among his favorite 
films are Kenji Mizoguchi's <em>Genroku Chushingura</em>, sometimes known as "The Loyal 47 Ronin."

<p>Fred writes for the <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com"><em>Chicago Reader</em></a> and 
other publications. He loves great cinema, but he does <em>not</em> believe that any of the 
films he's seen by Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, 
Martin Scorsese, or Steven Spielberg are great cinema art.

To see how that will look on a Web page, paste this url into your browser: 
http://www.fredcamper.com/M/Bioshowto.html