REQ: Usenet Charter

[serv...@flashmail.com]

I'm told there is a "Usenet Charter" that governs all of Usenet. Can
someone please post it or a link?

Thanks

Servo

[Jon Bell]

In article <hgaqmuspj2ls6h3a2...@4ax.com>,

<serv...@flashmail.com> wrote:
>I'm told there is a "Usenet Charter" that governs all of Usenet.

No, there isn't. Individual newsgroups may have charters, and some
top-level hierarchies of newsgroups have FAQs that describe how they are
"governed" (which usually mostly means how new groups are created), but
there is no governing document that covers all of Usenet.

In Usenet, the ultimate authority lies with news server administrators,
who decide which newsgroups their servers carry, who is allowed to use
their servers, etc.

--
Jon Bell <jtbe...@presby.edu> Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA