There are the hallucinatory graphics undulating across the World Wide Web, along with the cutting-edge Web zines and the nutty conspiracists, though they tend to be far right these days.

In the gossipy Web zine On the Rail, industry insiders have sniped about Michael's deep pockets and, in particular, the couple's plans to give away to charity any profits the restaurant might make.

Salon is one of the few sites whose stories will entice you to visit frequently, print selections to savor later (perhaps the highest praise one can give a Web zine) and encourage you to put in your two cents' worth.

Sonicnet, a Web zine for alternative music, has Japanese and Swiss (German) versions.

Other, smaller sites are presenting an array of information on topics long considered too delicate for the magazine racks; Web zines for young women can be positively lurid.

Interactive television, Web zines such as Slate?

Start-up money came from Apple: first $60,000, then another $40,000 - meager sums by today's standards, but enough to finance a modest weekly Web zine that was primarily about books.

It is refreshing, after wading through politically weighted academese, to hear Nikki Douglas of the Web zine Grrl Gamer declare: "Community and collaboration are what women bring to the table?

But Lawrence Levi had a broader meaning in mind when he created a Web zine that pays homage to the French word.

To the Editor: I am an editor at Word, and I was very disappointed by the article on Web zines ("Animation and Audio Enliven Text," March 5).