'Between 1993 and 1998, the editors had the stimulating and pleasurable experience of publishing six substantial issues of an online literary journal. The initial issue was distributed to subscribers via an email list in a text-only format and archived via Gopher; few people even knew that there was such a thing as the World Wide Web. Soon there were 1000 subscribers to the e-poetry listserv, a seemingly astonishing number in those days before the 'dot.coms'. Early contributors were often curious about the status of poems published on the internet: Were they protected by copyright? Who would read them? Would they vanish or remain permanently? The rapid development of the Web has rendered these questions into quaint reminiscences, but RIF/T holds a place as the groundbreaking venue for innovative or postmodern poetry on the internet.'

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