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2003-11-16 09:12:19 UTC
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dfw.general
General discussion that do not fit elsewhere in the dfw.*
hierarchy
_________________________________________________________________
CHARTER
Intended Use of dfw.general
1. Before posting to *any* newsgroup, you should read the
articles in news.announce.newusers. These articles provide
much insight into the niceties of newsgroups, including
appropriate netiquette when posting.
2. Discussions that relate to the D/FW Metropolitan area that
don't fit into the other newsgroups in the dfw hierarchy are
welcome here.
3. There are a number of news groups (those in the dfw.jobs
groups, dfw.forsale and dfw.personals) which are not
discussion groups. Discussions relating to articles in those
groups are welcome here.
4. Discussions that are not specifically regional should be
posted elsewhere(e.g. General state-wide issues should be
posted to tx.general).
5. dfw.general is NOT moderated, thus all free speech values are
intact within this group. This also means that no one person
is in control of who posts here, other than your local
systems administrator (sysadmin/sysop). The sysops are
responsible for deciding which newsgroups to carry locally
and overseeing the newsgroups and files they choose to carry.
There are guidelines for posting that are highly recommended
and are listed below.
Articles unacceptable in dfw.general:
1. SPAM, Chain letters, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, posts promoting
personal or commercial web sites or services are not
permitted.
2. For Sale or Wanted ads of any sort.
3. Commercial solicitation of any content.
4. Binaries. This is not a binaries group. Do not post
executables, sound files, image files, etc. in dfw.general.
5. Any article over 30K, ~750 lines in length. Please provide
links to such articles on a web or ftp site.
6. Evangelizing, i.e., promoting any particular point of view of
a religious topic. Religious refers not only to
faith/non-faith in a higher being, but to any topic, e.g.,
the "best" text editor or programming language, subject to
strong personal beliefs."
7. Personal Ads
8. Personal disputes.
9. Quoting someone else's entire article just to add one or two
lines. "Trim the quoted text in your followups."
10. No political posts, or discussions of any nature. Please
direct these to the appropriate political newsgroup. This
includes no cross-posting to or from any political motivated
newsgroup.
Canceling of Articles and Cross Posting:
1. Crossposting should be used in dfw.general only when
absolutely necessary, and before a reply is made to an
ongoing discussion, the poster should check and eliminate any
unnecessary groups that the thread is being cross-posted to
and think twice before adding additional groups. the poster
should also consider whether another group is more
appropriate for the discussion as it stands now, and forward
the discussion there though the use of Follow-To: headers.
Even if a topic of discussion is about other areas, regional
internet groups should not be added to the discussion on a
"FYI" or "maximum coverage" basis.
2. No more then three groups should receive any article placed
in dfw.general, including dfw.general.
3. Unacceptable examples of crossposting to dfw.general,
1. Any flame group.
2. Any group unrelated to the topics under discussion.
3. Cross-posted to more then three (3) groups.
4. Cross-posting to cause a flame war among the various
groups you have posted to.
_________________________________________________________________
Article Format
1. Articles posted to dfw.general MUST be flat-ASCII. This
means:
1. No Binary postings, uuencoded or base64.
2. No MIME encoded messages. Posts SHOULD be readable by
the simplest text-only newsreader.
3. No HTML, although HTML-like emoticons are acceptable.
4. No characters with a value greater than 127 in any part
of the post.
2. Posts SHOULD be shorter than 30K in size. Longer items SHOULD
be made available for FTP or HTTP download and a pointer to
that file posted.
3. Posts MUST contain a valid From address, unless the
".invalid" domain is used (see RFC 1036). Spam blocks are
acceptable. By definition USENET newsgroups are a broadcast
medium. If you have a post that needs to be anonymous, it is
not a valid topic for dfw.general. Post this material
elsewhere.
4. ROT13 encoding SHOULD NOT be used on any field in the
headers. Nor should any attempts, except minimal spam blocks,
be made to obscure the origins of the posting.
5. Posts MUST contain a "Abuse-Reports-To:" or
"X-Complaints-To:" header with a valid email address. When
RFC1036 is updated, this line SHOULD be adjusted to comply
with the latest specifications. Adding or replacing this
header is the responsibility of the news server where the
article was injected.
Failing to follow the above formatting requirements could
result in an article being canceled instantly and without
warning by an authorized moderation device (human or otherwise)
for the group in question. Articles cross-posted to other
groups and dfw.general must still follow the criteria of
dfw.general and be subject to these rules.
_________________________________________________________________
$Id: dfw.general.html,v 1.4 2002/05/02 16:26:34 cirr Stable $
Copyright 1999; D. Vondrasek
Copyright 1999, DFW USENET cabal
[dfw.general. All discussion should take place in dfw.usenet.config]
[The charters for dfw groups are found at http://www.cirr.com/dfw/charters]
For your newsgroups file:
dfw.general
General discussion that do not fit elsewhere in the dfw.*
hierarchy
_________________________________________________________________
CHARTER
Intended Use of dfw.general
1. Before posting to *any* newsgroup, you should read the
articles in news.announce.newusers. These articles provide
much insight into the niceties of newsgroups, including
appropriate netiquette when posting.
2. Discussions that relate to the D/FW Metropolitan area that
don't fit into the other newsgroups in the dfw hierarchy are
welcome here.
3. There are a number of news groups (those in the dfw.jobs
groups, dfw.forsale and dfw.personals) which are not
discussion groups. Discussions relating to articles in those
groups are welcome here.
4. Discussions that are not specifically regional should be
posted elsewhere(e.g. General state-wide issues should be
posted to tx.general).
5. dfw.general is NOT moderated, thus all free speech values are
intact within this group. This also means that no one person
is in control of who posts here, other than your local
systems administrator (sysadmin/sysop). The sysops are
responsible for deciding which newsgroups to carry locally
and overseeing the newsgroups and files they choose to carry.
There are guidelines for posting that are highly recommended
and are listed below.
Articles unacceptable in dfw.general:
1. SPAM, Chain letters, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, posts promoting
personal or commercial web sites or services are not
permitted.
2. For Sale or Wanted ads of any sort.
3. Commercial solicitation of any content.
4. Binaries. This is not a binaries group. Do not post
executables, sound files, image files, etc. in dfw.general.
5. Any article over 30K, ~750 lines in length. Please provide
links to such articles on a web or ftp site.
6. Evangelizing, i.e., promoting any particular point of view of
a religious topic. Religious refers not only to
faith/non-faith in a higher being, but to any topic, e.g.,
the "best" text editor or programming language, subject to
strong personal beliefs."
7. Personal Ads
8. Personal disputes.
9. Quoting someone else's entire article just to add one or two
lines. "Trim the quoted text in your followups."
10. No political posts, or discussions of any nature. Please
direct these to the appropriate political newsgroup. This
includes no cross-posting to or from any political motivated
newsgroup.
Canceling of Articles and Cross Posting:
1. Crossposting should be used in dfw.general only when
absolutely necessary, and before a reply is made to an
ongoing discussion, the poster should check and eliminate any
unnecessary groups that the thread is being cross-posted to
and think twice before adding additional groups. the poster
should also consider whether another group is more
appropriate for the discussion as it stands now, and forward
the discussion there though the use of Follow-To: headers.
Even if a topic of discussion is about other areas, regional
internet groups should not be added to the discussion on a
"FYI" or "maximum coverage" basis.
2. No more then three groups should receive any article placed
in dfw.general, including dfw.general.
3. Unacceptable examples of crossposting to dfw.general,
1. Any flame group.
2. Any group unrelated to the topics under discussion.
3. Cross-posted to more then three (3) groups.
4. Cross-posting to cause a flame war among the various
groups you have posted to.
_________________________________________________________________
Article Format
1. Articles posted to dfw.general MUST be flat-ASCII. This
means:
1. No Binary postings, uuencoded or base64.
2. No MIME encoded messages. Posts SHOULD be readable by
the simplest text-only newsreader.
3. No HTML, although HTML-like emoticons are acceptable.
4. No characters with a value greater than 127 in any part
of the post.
2. Posts SHOULD be shorter than 30K in size. Longer items SHOULD
be made available for FTP or HTTP download and a pointer to
that file posted.
3. Posts MUST contain a valid From address, unless the
".invalid" domain is used (see RFC 1036). Spam blocks are
acceptable. By definition USENET newsgroups are a broadcast
medium. If you have a post that needs to be anonymous, it is
not a valid topic for dfw.general. Post this material
elsewhere.
4. ROT13 encoding SHOULD NOT be used on any field in the
headers. Nor should any attempts, except minimal spam blocks,
be made to obscure the origins of the posting.
5. Posts MUST contain a "Abuse-Reports-To:" or
"X-Complaints-To:" header with a valid email address. When
RFC1036 is updated, this line SHOULD be adjusted to comply
with the latest specifications. Adding or replacing this
header is the responsibility of the news server where the
article was injected.
Failing to follow the above formatting requirements could
result in an article being canceled instantly and without
warning by an authorized moderation device (human or otherwise)
for the group in question. Articles cross-posted to other
groups and dfw.general must still follow the criteria of
dfw.general and be subject to these rules.
_________________________________________________________________
$Id: dfw.general.html,v 1.4 2002/05/02 16:26:34 cirr Stable $
Copyright 1999; D. Vondrasek
Copyright 1999, DFW USENET cabal