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<p>Created page with &#039;&lt;pre&gt; From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board) Subject: 4th RFD: talk.current-events moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;<br /> From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)<br /> Subject: 4th RFD: talk.current-events moderated (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)<br /> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, misc.headlines,<br /> misc.news.internet.discuss<br /> Followup-To: news.groups<br /> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:18:15 -0700<br /> <br /> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)<br /> talk.current-events<br /> <br /> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the<br /> moderated Usenet newsgroup, talk.current-events.<br /> <br /> <br /> PROCEDURE:<br /> <br /> The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please<br /> offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting<br /> period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted<br /> following the end of the voting period.<br /> <br /> All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.<br /> <br /> The full (draft) group creation procedure is documented here:<br /> <br /> http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:proposals<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> NEWSGROUPS LINE: talk.current-events<br /> <br /> talk.current-events Major news events of worldwide interest. (Moderated)<br /> <br /> <br /> RATIONALE: talk.current-events<br /> <br /> Virtually every hierarchy has some kind of newsgroup or hierarchy to talk<br /> about the events of the day. The Big-8&#039;s group is misc.headlines; but this<br /> group is poorly named, and is used primarily a haven for crossposted<br /> arguments and announcements. This proposal suggests a moderated<br /> alternative to misc.headlines; some crossposting will still be allowed,<br /> but restricted to avoid massively crossposted flamewars.<br /> <br /> An additional part of this proposal is to lay the groundwork for the<br /> rapid creation of newsgroups to discuss specific major world events, under<br /> the talk.current-events.* hierarchy. Details of this discussion will be<br /> hashed out in news.groups; a few suggestions include moderating all of<br /> these sub-groups with a similar moderation policy as the parent t.c-e, and<br /> automatically removing these sub-groups after six months. The details of<br /> this plan, including when/if it will be implemented, are beyond the scope<br /> of this proposal.<br /> <br /> <br /> CHARTER:<br /> <br /> talk.current-events is a lightly-moderated newsgroup to discuss the world<br /> events of the day. Discussion should not be restricted to that which<br /> is currently being discussed in the news media; instead, journalism by the<br /> users of the group is encouraged. Discussion is also not restricted to<br /> events in the United States, or any other specific country.<br /> <br /> Copyright violations (especially reprints of news articles) are explicitly<br /> banned; repeat offenders will be blacklisted from the group. Instead,<br /> users are encouraged to just offer URLs, or short excerpts from the articles.<br /> <br /> The topics of Permanent Floating Flamewars are off topic unless they<br /> involve discussion of substantial current events. As an example,<br /> discussion of gun control is off topic unless discussion involves<br /> proposed legislation, a major crime involving guns, court challeneges<br /> to existing gun laws, or similar substantial current events.<br /> <br /> The moderation team maintains and publishes a list of groups to which<br /> crossposts are allowed (the &quot;crossposting whitelist&quot;); this list<br /> specifically excludes *.politics.* and other purely-political newsgroups.<br /> <br /> In the event of a major world event with long-lasting repercussions, the<br /> moderators of talk.current-events may work with the administrators of the<br /> Big-8 Hierarchies to create additional short- or long-term groups in the<br /> talk.current-events.* hierarchy, on short notice and outside of the standard<br /> newsgroup creation process - for example talk.current-events.katrina to<br /> discuss the events of August 2005.<br /> <br /> <br /> MODERATION POLICY: talk.current-events<br /> <br /> talk.current-events is a robo-moderated newsgroup. The &#039;bot will enforce<br /> the following policies:<br /> <br /> * Articles may be crossposted to no more than four groups, all of which<br /> must be on the crossposting whitelist (as described in the charter).<br /> <br /> * Followups must be set to no more than two groups, all of which must be<br /> on the crossposting whitelist. If followups are not set and the<br /> message is crossposted to more than two groups, then the &#039;bot will set<br /> followups to just talk.current-events.<br /> <br /> * Postings should be formatted within 80 characters in width (limiting<br /> your lines to 76 characters is recommended).<br /> <br /> * Postings must be in plain text. In particular no HTML or mixed text<br /> and HTML posts will be allowed, nor will binary messages (with the<br /> exception of small cryptographic signatures, such as GPG or S/MIME).<br /> <br /> * Mail address and thread blacklisting may be implemented at the<br /> discretion of the moderators; in addition, a number of anti-spam<br /> filters will be applied to all submissions.<br /> <br /> * Posting with a non-replyable/munged address is discouraged. Posters who<br /> feel that they must use a munged address are encouraged to append<br /> &quot;.invalid&quot; to the end of the email address, to indicate that the address<br /> is not deliverable.<br /> <br /> Rejected posts will be returned to the poster with an explanation of what<br /> problems were encountered.<br /> <br /> <br /> MODERATOR INFO: talk.current-events<br /> <br /> Technical Moderator: Tim Skirvin &lt;tskirvin@killfile.org&gt;<br /> Moderator: Dave Sill &lt;de5@big-8.org&gt;<br /> Moderator: Kathy Morgan &lt;kmorgan@aptalaska.net&gt;<br /> Moderator: Edward Ohare &lt;edward.ohare@earthlink.net&gt;<br /> <br /> Article Submissions: talk-current-events@killfile.org<br /> Administrative Contact: talk-current-events-request@killfile.org<br /> <br /> The moderators are seeking additional candidates for the moderation team<br /> in order to ensure minimal posting delays and to avoid any appearance of<br /> bias. We would especially like to find moderators in other time zones,<br /> countries/continents, etc.<br /> <br /> END MODERATOR INFO<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> DISTRIBUTION:<br /> <br /> This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:<br /> <br /> news.announce.newgroups<br /> news.groups<br /> misc.headlines<br /> misc.news.internet.discuss<br /> <br /> <br /> PROPONENT:<br /> <br /> Tim Skirvin &lt;tskirvin@killfile.org&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> CHANGE HISTORY:<br /> <br /> 2006-09-12 LCC<br /> 2006-08-28 3rd RFD<br /> 2006-08-17 2nd RFD<br /> 2006-08-11 1st RFD written<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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