sci.med.midwifery Posting Guidelines

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                    sci.med.midwifery Posting Guidelines
                                      
                    Copyright (c) 2002-3, Brian Edmonds
               $Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2003/03/19 23:14:27 $
   
   The latest version of this document can be found at
     * http://www.gweep.ca/~robomod/sci.med.midwifery/
     * 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
   moderator at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Contents

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

   The sci.med.midwifery newsgroup was created in September 1995. The
   group originally had a panel of moderators who oversaw all postings.
   Over time these moderators burned out or moved on to other things, and
   the final blow was struck when the technical moderator disappeared,
   causing the group to fall idle.
   
   In April 2002 the previous lead moderator, Ibrahim Hublou, passed
   control of the group to Brian Edmonds, who is running the group and a
   companion, gated mailing list under full robomoderation.
   
   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.
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Charter

   sci.med.midwifery will be a moderated discussion group on all aspects
   of the practice of obstetrics by midwives. This can include, but is
   not limited to case consultation, distribution of new information in
   the specialty, discussion of the practice environment and conditions
   and on the education and training in diversity of midwives. 
   
   The intended participants of this proposed group would be midwives.
   All others without commercial aims involved in gentle midwifery
   including and not limited to: Birthchild Educators, Labor Supporters,
   Childbirth Assistants, Herbalists, Breastfeeding Consultances, Doulas,
   and other people with relevant knowledge, skills, questions and
   remarks are greatfully welcomed to join. 
   
  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 also not allowed. Any post with more than 70% quoted
       material or a sig in excess of 512 bytes will be rejected.
     * Postings must be formatted within 80 characters in width (limiting
       your lines to 72 characters is recommended), and also must 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 not allowed except through manual intervention by
       the moderator. Contact the moderator if you feel you need to
       crosspost to sci.med.midwifery and any other group.
     * Followups can be to no more than one group, or to poster.
     * 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"
       
   Submissions from non-registered addresses will be held for human
   moderation. 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
   sci.med.midwifery 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.
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The Mailing List

   All postings to sci.med.midwifery 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://www.gweep.ca/mailman/listinfo.cgi/midwifery.
   
   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: 2003/03/19 23:14:27 $