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                 sci.bio.phytopathology Posting Guidelines

                     Copyright 2002-2005, Brian Edmonds
               $Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2005/02/07 14:56:52 $

   The latest version of this document can be found at
     * http://www.robomod.net/sci.bio.phytopathology/
     * post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
       the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"

   Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group
   moderator at sbp-modera...@robomod.net.
     _________________________________________________________________

Contents

     * Introduction
     * Charter
          + Miscellaneous Policies
          + Robomoderation
     * How To Submit a Post
     * The Mailing List
     _________________________________________________________________

Introduction

   The sci.bio.phytopathology newsgroup was created in September 1995.
   The group originally had a panel of moderators who oversaw all
   postings. Over time these moderators burned out or moved on to other
   things, and the last approved posts known to Google were in April
   2000.

   In April 2002 the group was revived by Brian Edmonds, who is running
   the group and a companion, gated mailing list under full
   robomoderation.

   Since its creation a number of control messages have been sent which
   at some sites appear to have erroneously changed the status of the
   group to unmoderated. If this is the case at your site, you should
   bring it to the attention of your news admin, as any postings you make
   to a moderated group which is not properly recognized as such at your
   site will be silently discarded at any site where the group is
   correctly carried as moderated.
     _________________________________________________________________

Charter

   Sci.bio.phytopathology is a moderated discussion forum on all aspects
   of phytopathology and plant health including pests. Following topics
   (among others) should be covered by the group: diseases caused by
   fungi, bacteria, viruses; pests caused by insects and other organisms;
   epidemiology, modeling plant disease epidemics; host-parasite
   interactions; pest management; biological control; integrated crop
   protection and production; molecular biology, genetics and ecological
   aspects of diseases and resistance;detection of pathogens; resistance
   mechanisms; acquired resistance in plants; stress resistance and
   tolerance; yield losses due to diseases and pests; use of transgenic
   plants in phytopathology; model systems in phytopathology;
   biotechnology in plant protection.

  Miscellaneous Policies

   The moderation software may (now or possibly in the future) enforce
   the following policies:

     * Postings must be in plain text. In particular no HTML or mixed
       text and HTML posts will be allowed. Excessive quoting and large
       sigs are also not allowed. Any post with more than 70% quoted
       material or a sig in excess of 512 bytes will be rejected.
     * Postings must be formatted within 80 characters in width (limiting
       your lines to 72 characters is recommended), and also must not
       exhibit the long/short/long/short/etc misformatting that some
       posting agents can produce when misconfigured.
     * No binary postings of any sort will be accepted. Exceptions will
       be made for cryptographic signatures and such. S/MIME signatures
       are usually far too bulky and will probably not be accepted.
     * Crossposting is not allowed except through manual intervention by
       the moderator. Contact the moderator if you feel you need to
       crosspost to sci.bio.phytopathology and any other group.
     * Followups can be to no more than one group, or to poster.
     * Mail address blacklisting and whitelisting may be implemented as
       deemed necessary. In addition a number of anti-spam filters are in
       place, and will be expanded as needed.

   All posts (with a working return address) will either be returned with
   a rejection notice, or posted to the newsgroup and mailing list. One
   exception is that rejection notices for the same error are suppressed
   for a few minutes after the first one is sent to reduce the danger of
   the robomoderator being used as a mailbombing agent.

   Posting with a non-replyable address is strongly discouraged. If you
   feel you must post with such an address, please make sure you are not
   using one in a valid mail domain; appending .invalid to the address is
   the recommended way to ensure this.

  Robomoderation

   The robomoderation software (robomod) enforces various anti-spam and
   text formatting requirements. Note that in order to receive rejection
   notices or other information from robomod it must have a valid email
   address for you. More information on the registration process,
   including how to use munged addreses, can be found at
     * http://www.robomod.net/register.html
     * post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
       the subject (without the quotes): "send file: register.txt"

   Submissions from non-registered addresses will be held for human
   moderation. The moderators may at their discretion register addresses
   for auto-approval, or revert them to hand moderated status.
     _________________________________________________________________

How To Submit a Post

   At a correctly configured site you should simply be able to post to
   sci.bio.phytopathology and everything will be managed for you behind
   the scenes. If you find this does not work for you, you can submit
   directly to the submission agent by mailing your posting to
   sci-bio-phytopathol...@robomod.net.

   Please try the newsgroup first, and be sure to bring any problems to
   the attention of your local news administrator so that they can be
   dealt with.
     _________________________________________________________________

The Mailing List

   All postings to sci.bio.phytopathology are also distributed to the
   mailing list sci-bio-phytopathol...@robomod.net, which is available in
   both regular and digest format. For subscription information, send
   email to sci-bio-phytopathology-requ...@robomod.net or visit the list
   webpage at
   http://www.robomod.net/mailman/listinfo/sci-bio-phytopathology.

   Likewise, all postings to the mailing list are also distributed to the
   newsgroup, so subscribers can use whichever of the newsgroup, list, or
   digest formats is most comfortable.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Brian Edmonds
   $Date: 2005/02/07 14:56:52 $