Frequently Asked Questions

We've broken the FAQ down into a few categories. Each FAQ category contains questions relating to that category specifically. You might find some questions in several of the categories as they relate to more than one.
Due to the size of this FAQ it has been broken down into several pages.

GOTH.NET Questions

• General
• Membership
• Email
• Webspace
• Chat
• Forums

Gothic Questions

• General
• Music
• Fashion

GOTH.NET Questions

- General -

• What is the GOTH.NET Announcements list?
• How do I get Announcements from GOTH.NET?
• I like the site, how can I contribute?

- Membership -

• What does GOTH.NET Membership Offer?
• How do I become a GOTH.NET Member?
• Does GOTH.NET really need my real details?
• What is a Password Verification question/answer?
• How do I obtain a www.something.goth.net address?
• Do memberships expire?
• Do I need to be a GOTH.NET member to use the Art/Writings?
• Do I need to be a GOTH.NET member to use the Chat?
• Do I need to be a GOTH.NET member to use the Forums?

- Email -

• I forgot my password, what do I do?
• I have an e-mail account, how do I get webspace?
• How do I find out if I'm over my disk quota?
• What is a 'soft' quota, 'hard' quota, and a grace period?
• What are the different kinds of quotas on GOTH.NET?
• How do I get more space on GOTH.NET?
• My account is over quota, what can I do?
• How do I read my GOTH.NET email, or send email from my GOTH.NET account?
• How do I setup Outlook Express to get my GOTH.NET email?
• How do I get GOTH.NET for forward my email to another account?
• When I try to delete e-mails, it tells me it cannot write to the Trash folder?
• What are all these emails with [SPAM] in the subject?
• Some of my non-spam emails are being flagged as spam, what can I do?
• I still get some spam thats not flagged as spam, anything I can do?
• How do I block an email address entirely?
• Can I automatically move or delete emails marked as SPAM?
• Can my email membership expire?

- Webspace -

• I forgot my password, what do I do?
• How do I upload my files into my webspace account?
• How do I upload files into my subdomain account?
• How do I find out if I'm over my disk quota?
• What is a 'soft' quota, 'hard' quota, and a grace period?
• What are the different kinds of quotas on GOTH.NET?
• How do I get more space on GOTH.NET?
• My account is over quota, what can I do?
• Can my webspace membership expire?

- Chat -

• Do I need to be a GOTH.NET member to use the Chat?
• When I join the Chat, nobody seems to be talking?
• The Java Applet won't connect, what's wrong?
• What is IRC?
• I'm having trouble with my mIRC?

- Forums -

• I forgot my password, what do I do?
• Do I need to be a GOTH.NET member to use the Forums?
• I signed up just now and can't post to the board?
• I tried to paste HTML code and it's not working?
• My avatar isn't working?
• I signed up ages ago, but my membership seems to be gone?
• What do the words "Avernus, Dis, Minauros, Phlegethos, Stygia, Malbolge, Maladomini, Cania and Nessus" under the member names/avatars mean?
• How do I unsubscribe?

Gothic Questions

- General -

• What is Gothic?
• Am I Gothic?
• Do I need to drink/smoke/have sex/do drugs/... to be Gothic?
• Resources

- Fashion -

• Does it have to be black?
• Does it need to be fetish/industrial/etc.?
• Do I have to have piercings/tattoos?
• Resources

- Music -

• What music should I listen to?
• Resources

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