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Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,misc.headlines,misc.news.internet.discuss

Subject: 2nd RFD: talk.current-events moderated

From: Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@killfile.org>

Followup-To: news.groups

Archive-Name: talk.current-events

Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:07:23 -0700

Message-ID: <1155827243.1776@isc.org>



                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

                  moderated group talk.current-events



This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the

moderated Usenet newsgroup, talk.current-events.





NEWSGROUPS LINE: talk.current-events



talk.current-events     World events in the news. (Moderated)





RATIONALE: talk.current-events



Virtually every hierarchy has some kind of newsgroup or hierarchy to talk

about the events of the day.  The Big-8's group is misc.headlines; but this

group is poorly named, and is used primarily a haven for crossposted

arguments and announcements.  This proposal suggests a moderated

alternative to misc.headlines; some crossposting will still be allowed,

but discouraged.





CHARTER:



talk.current-events is a lightly-moderated newsgroup to discuss the world

events of the day.  Discussion should not be restricted to that which

is currently being discussed in the news media; instead, journalism by the

users of the group is encouraged.  Discussion is also not restricted to

events in the United States, or any other specific country.



Copyright violations (especially reprints of news articles) are explicitly

banned; repeat offenders will be blacklisted from the group.  Instead,

users are encouraged to just offer URLs, or short excerpts from the articles.



Permanent Floating Flamewars are also barred, except in as much as they

relate to *current* events.  In other words, discussion of gun control is

off-topic, unless there is a major new gun control bill in Congress (or

similar).  Please refer to the appropriate talk.politics.* groups for

these topics.



In the event of a major world event with long-lasting repercussions, the

moderator of talk.current-events may work with the administrators of the

Big-8 Hierarchies to create additional short- or long-term groups in the

talk.current-events.* hierarchy, on short notice and outside of the standard

newsgroup creation process and on short-notice.  For example, the moderator

may create the group talk.current-events.katrina to discuss the events of

August 2005.





MODERATION POLICY: talk.current-events



talk.current-events is a robo-moderated newsgroup.  The 'bot will enforce

the following policies:



  * The moderator will maintain and publish a list of groups to which

    crossposting is allowed (the "crossposting whitelist").  This list

    specifically excludes *.politics.* (at least initially).



  * Articles may be crossposted to no more than four groups, all of which

    must be on the crossposting whitelist.



  * Followups must be set to no more than two groups, all of which must be

    on the crossposting whitelist.  If followups are not set, then the 'bot

    will set followups to just talk.current-events.



  * Postings should be formatted within 80 characters in width (limiting

    your lines to 76 characters is recommended).



  * Postings must be in plain text.  In particular no HTML or mixed text

    and HTML posts will be allowed, nor will binary messages (with the

    exception of small cryptographic signatures, such as GPG or S/MIME).



  * Mail address and thread blacklisting may be implemented at the

    discretion of the moderator; in addition, a number of anti-spam

    filters will be applied to all submissions.



  * Posting with a non-replyable/munged address is discouraged. Posters who

    feel that they must use a munged address are encouraged to append

    ".invalid" to the end of the email address, to indicate that the address

    is not deliverable.



Rejected posts will be returned to the poster with an explanation of what

problems were encountered.





MODERATOR INFO: talk.current-events



Technical Moderator:      Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@killfile.org>



Article Submissions:      talk-current-events@killfile.org

Administrative Contact:   talk-current-events-request@killfile.org







END MODERATOR INFO







PROCEDURE:



For more information on the newsgroup creation process, please see:



  http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:creation



Those who wish to influence the development of this RFD and its final

resolution should subscribe to news.groups and participate in the

relevant threads in that newsgroup.  This is both a courtesy to groups

in which discussion of creating a new group is off-topic as well as the

best method of making sure that one's comments or criticisms are heard.



All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.



To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to

news.groups.



If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion

may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure

that all discussion appears in news.groups as well.







DISTRIBUTION:



This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:



  news.announce.newgroups

  news.groups

  misc.headlines

  misc.news.internet.discuss





PROPONENT:



Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@killfile.org>







CHANGE HISTORY:



2006-08-17     2nd RFD

2006-08-11     1st RFD written

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