In message <5f.1699c003.285cb562@aol.com>
SmrSnows@aol.com wrote:
[snip]
> And I found no FAQ either at the ng, nor at news.answers or alt.answers
> going back to about November (it may be longer than that-that's only as
> far as I searched)
If you look for the name of the newsgroup at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/
it will tell you if there was ever a FAQ for that group, unless it's been
removed from the archive at the request of the maintainer.
> Yesterday, a girl I've never heard of before posted:
[...]
> > In light of the recent attempted coup, i am now the
> > self-appointed FAQ maintainer.
>
> followed by *her* FAQ "for the ng", which contradicts the one I posted in
> April (it specifically bans the use I've made of the ng- a RPG). Her FAQ,
> as far as I can tell, has never been submitted to news.answers. She said
> she copy-and-pasted it from an old one. Two other people I've never heard
> of before posted, one in her support, one in mine.
>
> Any ideas?
Is the use you are putting the newsgroup to the use it was intended for? Look
up its charter on ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/control/ and find out. If you've
just picked up a dead NG and started using it for an inappropriate purpose
(as defined by its charter), that's bad.
If, on the other hand, the charter for the newsgroup allows the use you're
making of it, there's nothing she can do to stop you posting [1]. Ignore her.
However, as far as your FAQs are concerned, the *.answers moderators don't
care which of you is right. We don't get involved in internal newsgroup
politics and if both of you submit your FAQs to *.answers both will be
approved (providing they comply with the guidelines on form).
[1] Except by spoofing cancel messages or using Supersedes to mask your
postings, but that's account-loss level abuse of Usenet...
Cheers,
Nick
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