Re: Where do I find a newsgroups charter?
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto (jaed@jaedworks.com)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:22:23 -0700
At 5:11 PM -0700 6/14/99, Paul Hilling wrote:
>>From: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto <jaed@jaedworks.com>
>>>Paul Hilling wrote...
>>>So what's the procedure for changing the charter of a group that already
>>>exists?
>>What is it you're trying to do?
>
> [troll posting with forged headers]
>He's doing the posting, saying something along the lines of... "The charter
>doesn't say OT articles aren't allowed, so you can't stop me". So I (and
>other regular's of the newsgroup), would like to change the charter to
>reflect the no OT ideal (as well as incorporating no binaries, no spam, and
>no cross-posting to unrelated newsgroups), as the current one says
><quote>Discussion of the show Xena: Warrior Princess.</quote>
>
>I can change the FAQ, but I am hoping to also change the charter as well.
>
>Would this actually be a worthwhile activity? Seems like it would be in
>this case (to me at least). As it does give another arrow in abuse
>e-mails, I or others may send.
Well, off-topic posts are sort of disallowed by definition in any
newsgroup, and the existing charter clearly outlines the topic area. It
doesn't seem to me a charter needs to explicitly say, "By the way, posts on
subjects that have nothing to do with what the charter says can be posted
are considered against the charter." Apart from the fact that offtopic
posting is contrary to generally-understood netiquette anyway, for any
newsgroup, chartered or not.
That being said, have you talked to Talkway yet? What do they say?
--
jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed@jaedworks.com
http://www.jaedworks.com
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