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Top Document: soc.culture.japan FAQ [Monthly Posting] [1/3] Previous Document: (3.1) History of the groups Next Document: (3.2.1) Binary posts See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Last update: 7/97 (This section mostly applies to s.c.j.moderated as well; the chief difference is that the moderators can and will enforce some of these policies, whereas s.c.j. relies on the honor system. Please read the s.c.j.m FAQ described in 3.2.4 for details.) At my site, s.c.j. is described as "Everything Japanese, except the Japanese language." What is meant by "Everything Japanese" is not entirely clear. Please use your judgment when posting. Like most other big newsgroups, s.c.j. has its share of regular flame fodders. These are discussed in more detail in section 3.4. If you would like to voice your opinion on these subjects, you would do well to lurk for a while to hear what others have to say about it. (This is a sound advice for any topic in any newsgroup, but people tend to forget it.) Customarily, posts to s.c.j. are in English. Many readers outside Japan have trouble reading posts written in kana (in fact, some readers have complained because their terminals go crazy when dealing with 8-bit characters), so it is advisable to post strictly with ASCII characters if you want everyone to read what your wrote. Many Japanese-literate posters circumvent this problem by writing in romaji when necessary. If you do not understand Japanese and would like to know what a particular post was saying, most posters would be happy to translate the passage for you if you email them and ask. Lastly, remember that many of the posts to s.c.j. are written by people who use English as their second language. As such, misunderstandings due to language difficulties are very likely. If you feel compelled to fix grammatical mistakes, please email the poster and save the rest of the net the agony of reading cheap grammar flames. User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.japan FAQ [Monthly Posting] [1/3] Previous Document: (3.1) History of the groups Next Document: (3.2.1) Binary posts Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: shimpei@gol.com (Shimpei Yamashita)
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