WELCOME TO PHISH.NET The Phish.Net is an online community of Phish fans, though most often identified with this particular web site (www.phish.net). Originally a single electronic mailing list, it has grown to a web of mailing lists, a high-traffic usenet newsgroup, several IRC and web-based chat forums, and hundreds of Phish-related web sites.  HISTORY The cornerstone of online Phish discussion began in late 1991 with the original Phish Digest, a subscription e-mail list of 12 lovably nerdy fans. As more fans subscribed and discussion grew, fans petitioned to form a Usenet newsgroup. Created in 1992, rec.music.phish became only the third usenet newsgroup dedicated to a band (following the Grateful Dead and the Beatles). The Phish Digest came to an end during the summer of 1995 as it was decided unnecessary given that internet service was more readily available and usenet was more readily accessible than they were when the newsgroup was created. Several months before the end of the original Phish Digest, a member of the Phish.Net community, Rosemary Dean Mackintosh, proposed the idea of offering a filtered digest, and volunteered to read every post to the newsgroup and offer what she felt was the most relevant posts to the subscribers. Rosemary's Digest offered the content of rec.music.phish "through rose coloured glasses" until September of 1997 when the workload became too much, and Rosemary gave up the digest. Despite the demise of these 2 early Phish ailing lists, there still exist many available forums for Phish discussion on the Internet.    PHISH.NET RESOURCES PhishNews Email: an announce-only mailing list that delivers the latest setlists, tour news, official news, and major online developments. Subscribe now. PhishNet Digest: moderated mailing list with selections from rec.music.phish and other online forums, bundled in skimmable emails. Subscribe now. Frequently Asked Questions File: The Phish.Net FAQ is a veritable encyclopedia of information about the band and the Phish.Net community. Hundreds of web pages, answering thousands of questions. Helping Friendly Book: The HPB is the largest and most comprehensive source of Phish setlists, song reviews, and show reviews available online, begun in 1991 and built by volunteers like you. Phish.Net Archives: The Archives include interviews, articles, trading help, and answers to the question What is Phish? Also available via anonymous FTP.  PHISH.NET SHIRT Have you ever wondered how you might go about locating and even meeting new Phish.Netters at shows? The answer, wear a Phish.Net shirt. Around since Christmas 1991, there have been three official Phish.Net T-shirts. It's a great shirt and proclaims to all a band worth hearing, seeing, and otherwise experiencing. Best of all, they have been officially christened & approved by the band and have been receiving rave reviews from Phish fans everywhere. Find out how to order yours today!  MOCKINGBIRD FOUNDATION The Mockingbird Foundation is a non-profit corporation that was founded by a group of volunteer fans to produce an encyclopedic reference book for the entire Phish fan community, consisting of setlists, reviews, statistics, images, and all sorts of essays about the band and relevant experiences. All profits from sales will go to charity; no one involved will benefit financially. Visit http://www.phish.net/mockingbird/ for complete information, and to see what you can do to help out.  MAILING LISTS PhishNews Email: an announce-only mailing list that delivers the latest setlists, tour news, official news, and major online developments. Subscribe now. PhishNet Digest: oderated mailing list with selections from rec.music.phish and other online forums, bundled in skimmable emails. Subscribe now. Phish-Women: The Phish-Women mailing list (aka Phunky Bitches) lets female Phish fans meet and communicate, find travel companions, share information on women's health issues, develop the confidence to post actively to rec.music.phish, and of course acquire tapes and talk about music. DigiPhish: The Digital Phish Mailing List was created to discuss the digital taping and trading of Phish shows. See also, their web site.  MESSAGE BOARDS Web-based chats now take a variety of flavors, which vary by the software behind them, the options employed by local owners, and the behavior exhibited on the. Former popular sites include Andy Gadiel's and phans.com. Currently active, and popular and growing, is the Oh Ke Pa message board.  REC.MUSIC.PHISH Identity: We Phish fans have our own Usenet newsgroup, called rec.music.phish.The newsgroup is the primary forum for Phish.Net discussion. While it is entirely unmoderated, please keep your posts relevant to Phish, their music, and other issues of interest for Phish fans. Likewise, please browse the Phish.Net FAQ (http://www.phish.net/faq/) for information before bombarding the newsgroup with questions, or before breaking standard rules of netiquette. Access: For information about accessing the newsgroup, contact your Internet service provider. You can also browse and post to rec.music.phish via DejaNews on the web (http://www.dejanews.com/). Email gateway: To post to rec.music.phish directly from your email box, send your message to rmp@archive.phish.net, and it will automatically be forwarded to the newsgroup.  INTERNET RELAY CHAT There are two major Internet Relay Chat (IRC) groups that regularly meet to discuss Phish, on the EFNet and Undernet networks. Both use channel #phish. See http://www.phish.net/faq/nirc.html for general info, or to www.phish.org/ for EFNet info.    WEB SITES Official: Phish.com is the official source for tour dates, news, special features like This Month in Phish History, and services like Tickets-By-Mail (mail order) and Dry Goods (merchandise). Catchall: Beeno offers phans.com, a great source for news and multimedia. Broader: Andy Gadiel's site offers most current news and setlists about anything Phish related as well as plenty of other jamband-related stuff. Rumors: The real stuff often first appears here on Gadiel's site, though plenty that's dubious does too. Articles: Press clippings compiled and indexed by Julia Mordaunt on her site. Statistics: Extensive data analysis of Phish setlists, for shows you've seen or for any song or shows of interest to you, from David "ZZYZX" Steinberg at IHOZ. Game: Who can come closest in guessing what songs Phish will play on the next tour? Try it out, at PhantasyPhish Stories: A nice repository at www.pholktales.com. Got more? If you have a Phish-related web page, email a volunteer who will link to it here or elsewhere on the Phish.net web site.