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	<http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Big-8_Management_Board>. The Management		<http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Big-8_Management_Board>. The Management
	Board may be reached via E-mail at <board@big-8.org>.		Board may be reached via E-mail at <board@big-8.org>.

			(Adapted from the original News.Announce.Important Policy, last modified
			September 28, 1993, by the previous moderator, Mark Horton.)

Kathym: Created page with "Moderated Group news.announce.important CHARTER: The news.announce.important newsgroup is intended to be a VERY LOW VOLUME newsgroup for general announcements that are so impor..."

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Created page with "Moderated Group news.announce.important CHARTER: The news.announce.important newsgroup is intended to be a VERY LOW VOLUME newsgroup for general announcements that are so impor..."

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Moderated Group news.announce.important

CHARTER:

The news.announce.important newsgroup is intended to be a VERY LOW
VOLUME newsgroup for general announcements that are so important
that nearly everyone on Usenet should read them. While
announcements about Usenet, UUCPnet, or the Internet are certainly
within the scope of the newsgroup, in rare cases, announcements
about other topics that are of great interest to the readers of the
newsgroup may be accepted.

news.announce.important exists for the benefit of its readers, not
for the benefit of the author of an announcement. No announcement
will be accepted unless reading the announcement will be of primary
benefit to the reader. In particular, this means that commercial
advertisements, announcements of new programs, and other
announcements whose primary purpose is to benefit the poster will be
rejected.

Postings to this newsgroup must conform to these rules. Exceptions
to the rules are at the sole discretion of the moderator.

(1) Announcements must be short. The target length is 20
lines, so that the posting plus headers fits in a single display
screen. All extra text, such as .signature files, should be trimmed
before submission. Long announcements (especially those over 60
lines) will generally be refused, although if they are posted
elsewhere, a short pointer article giving the newsgroup, date, and
Message-ID of the full article might be accepted if it meets all
other criteria.

(2) News.announce.important is a worldwide newsgroup. Postings
must be of worldwide interest. There is no way to make a local
posting in this newsgroup: find a local announcement or general
newsgroup for local postings.

(3) Cross-posting is generally disallowed. If the announcement
is to be accepted for news.announce.important, it should stand
alone. The quarterly posting of this charter, crossposted to
news.answers, is an exception to this rule.

(4) All articles must be approved by the moderator before
posting. In some cases, the moderator may ask the advice of a panel
of other moderators, but the final decision rests with the
moderator.

(5) Only articles of general interest to most of those using
newsgroups are acceptable. Specialized articles should be posted to
an appropriate special interest newsgroup.

(6) Discussions in this newsgroup are not permitted. Second
and subsequent submissions on the same subject will be rejected. If
a discussion is anticipated, include a Followup-To: header line to
another appropriate newsgroup. (It is suggested that the same
message or a pointer to the message in news.announce.important be
separately posted to that other newsgroup.) If a Followup-To:
header line is not provided and the original submitter has not
provided a valid E-mail address, feedback to the posting will likely
be lost.

(7) Postings must be of primary benefit to the readers, not to
the poster.

(8) All postings must be in English. At the moderators'
discretion, however, the English content may be followed in the same
posting by content expressed in another language with the same
meaning and sense as the English content.

Examples of acceptable and unacceptable postings:

"A new type of message will be posted to Usenet that will break any
software older than 3 years, effective in 2 months. Please upgrade
your software by then or disconnect the machine from the net". This
would likely be approved.

"The Internet is running out of IP addresses, please conserve your
addresses and give any you are not using back to the NIC." This
would likely be approved.

"Please do not send any more cards to Craig Shergold, he got into
the Guinness Book of Records years ago and no longer needs them, the
cards are causing problems in the Post Office." This would likely
be approved.

"We have a new wonderful spiffy product for sale." This would
likely be rejected as being commercial.

"Call for Papers for the Computers in Astrology Conference". This
would likely be rejected as not of general interest; it should
instead be submitted to news.announce.conferences.

"The Australian Internet is in trouble - write your legislator".
This would likely be rejected as of only regional interest; it
should instead be submitted to a regional newsgroup.

"Dinette Set for Sale in Denver". This would likely be rejected as
it violates most of the policies.

"The Former Soviet Union is announcing the sale of mining and
mineral rights at bargain prices." This would likely be rejected as
being too commercial.

"There will be a showing of the movie 'The Graduate' at the Student
Union at 7 PM Saturday night." This would likely be rejected as of
only local interest.

This charter will be posted to news.announce.important quarterly.

MODERATION POLICY:

The moderators shall operate in a manner that enforces the charter.

MODERATOR INFO:

All moderators are selected from the membership of the Big8-Usenet
Management Board. The members of the Management Board are listed at
<http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Big-8_Management_Board>. The Management
Board may be reached via E-mail at <board@big-8.org>.

Charter for news.announce.important - Revision history

Tristan Miller: Update Charter per FAQ version on Panix

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Kathym at 01:49, 14 September 2010

Kathym: Created page with "Moderated Group news.announce.important CHARTER: The news.announce.important newsgroup is intended to be a VERY LOW VOLUME newsgroup for general announcements that are so impor..."