rec.skiing.announce Posting Guidelines

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                   rec.skiing.announce Posting Guidelines

                     Copyright (c) 2003, Brian Edmonds
               $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 2003/09/23 15:43:32 $

   The latest version of this document can be found at
     * http://www.gweep.ca/~robomod/rec.skiing.announce/
     * post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
       the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

   Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
   moderation coordinator at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
     _________________________________________________________________

Contents

     * Introduction
     * Charter
          + Miscellaneous Policies
          + Robomoderation
     * How To Submit a Post
     * The Mailing List
     _________________________________________________________________

Introduction

   The rec.skiing.announce newsgroup was created on March 15, 1994. The
   group was originally moderated by Glen Baker, who retired on April
   3rd, 2000. A search was made for a new moderator, but no suitable
   volunteers stepped forward at that time.

   In March 2003 moderation of the group was passed to Brian Edmonds, who
   is running the group and a companion, gated mailing list with the
   assistance of his robomoderation software. In September 2003, Jim
   Strohm joined the moderation team.

   Since its creation a number of control messages have been sent which
   at some sites appear to have erroneously changed the status of the
   group to unmoderated. If this is the case at your site, you should
   bring it to the attention of your news admin, as any postings you make
   to a moderated group which is not properly recognized as such at your
   site will be silently discarded at any site where the group is
   correctly carried as moderated.
     _________________________________________________________________

Charter

   Consistent with present net-practice, this is the low-volume,
   moderated group for announcements. It will carry the periodic posting
   of the FAQ, race & other competition results, and possibly some
   selected automated snow reports. 

  Miscellaneous Policies

   The moderation software may (now or possibly in the future) enforce
   the following policies:
     * Postings must be in plain text. In particular no HTML or mixed
       text and HTML posts will be allowed. Excessive quoting and large
       sigs are strongly discouraged.
     * Postings should be formatted within 80 characters in width
       (limiting your lines to 72 characters is recommended), and also
       should not exhibit the long/short/long/short/etc misformatting
       that some posting agents can produce when misconfigured.
     * No binary postings of any sort will be accepted. Exceptions will
       be made for cryptographic signatures and such. S/MIME signatures
       are usually far too bulky and will probably not be accepted.
     * Crossposting is only allowed to one other group, and followups
       must be set out of rec.skiing.announce. If the poster does not set
       a followups header it will default to poster. Crossposts are not
       allowed to another moderated group. Contact the moderator if you
       feel you need to bypass any of these restrictions.
     * Mail address blacklisting and whitelisting may be implemented as
       deemed necessary. In addition a number of anti-spam filters are in
       place, and will be expanded as needed.

   All posts (with a working return address) will either be returned with
   a rejection notice, or posted to the newsgroup and mailing list. One
   exception is that rejection notices for the same error are suppressed
   for a few minutes after the first one is sent to reduce the danger of
   the robomoderator being used as a mailbombing agent.

   Posting with a non-replyable address is strongly discouraged. If you
   feel you must post with such an address, please make sure you are not
   using one in a valid mail domain; appending .invalid to the address is
   the recommended way to ensure this.

  Robomoderation

   The robomoderation software (robomod) enforces various anti-spam and
   text formatting requirements. Note that in order to receive rejection
   notices or other information from robomod it must have a valid email
   address for you. More information on the registration process,
   including how to use munged addreses, can be found at
     * http://www.gweep.ca/~robomod/register.html
     * post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
       the subject (without the quotes): "send file: register.txt"

   The moderators may at their discretion register addresses for
   auto-approval, or revert them to hand moderated status.
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How To Submit a Post

   At a correctly configured site you should simply be able to post to
   rec.skiing.announce and everything will be managed for you behind the
   scenes. If you find this does not work for you, you can submit
   directly to the submission agent by mailing your posting to
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   Please try the newsgroup first, and be sure to bring any problems to
   the attention of your local news administrator so that they can be
   dealt with.
     _________________________________________________________________

The Mailing List

   All postings to rec.skiing.announce are also distributed to the
   mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is available in both
   regular and digest format. For subscription information, send email to
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit the list webpage at
   http://lists.gweep.ca/listinfo.cgi/rec-skiing-announce.

   Likewise, all postings to the mailing list are also distributed to the
   newsgroup, so subscribers can use whichever of the newsgroup, list, or
   digest formats is most comfortable.
     _________________________________________________________________


    Brian Edmonds
    $Date: 2003/09/23 15:43:32 $