Charter For "Alt.Xyzzy" (Booster)

[Glenn P.,]

This Booster Posted: Thu., 27-May-2021, at 02:20:05pm EDT (-0400 GMT).

I've just posted a Booster Message for this pre-existing newsgroup,
"alt.xyzzy". I am this newsgroup's original creator. See the
"CREATION" heading below for further information.

PURPOSE: The purposes of this newsgroup are twofold:

1. To serve as a test newsgroup, relieving some of the massive
traffic on alt.test and misc.test; and

2. Secondarily, to serve as a repository for miscellaneous,
low-importance, temporary, or ephemeral traffic.

Two advantages to using "alt.xyzzy" for the posting of test
messages instead of, for example, "misc.test", is that (1)
traffic is much less on "alt.xyzzy", making one's test message
much easier to locate; and (2) "alt.xyzzy" is unmonitored,
meaning one can safely post a test message here without fear
of getting E-Mail autoresponses from South Africa (among
several other weird places) in return.

HISTORY: The term "xyzzy" was originally used as a magic word
in the world's first interactive fiction program, "Adventure"
(a.k.a. "Colossal Cave") by Crowther & Woods. It was since
employed as an ad hoc filename for low-importance, temporary,
or ephemeral files. The use of this word in the name of this
newsgroup therefore accomplishes two things:

1. It does homage to "Adventure", of which this newsgroup's
creator was (and still is) a great fan; and

2. To the computer-savvy, it serves as an indicator of the
general nature of this newsgroup.

CREATION: This newsgroup was created approximately ten years
ago. I have changed ISP's since then, and as a result, my
E-Mail address is now slightly different:

OLD ADDRESS: C128UserD...@GTI.Net

NEW ADDRESS: C128UserD...@FVI.Net

IMPORTANT: Take note of the SPAM-BLOCK on these E-Mail addressess!

NEWSGROUP CHARTER FOR "ALT.XYZZY":
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Things Prohibited:
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The posting of commercial messages of any kind is prohibited.

The posting of pornographic or sexually-oriented material is prohibited.

Posting material without the permission of the copyright owner is prohibited.

Posting raw 8-bit binary is prohibited (see below).

Things Permitted:
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Just about anything else is permitted, in keeping with this newsgroup's
catch-all "miscellaneous" character.

The posting of binary attachments is permitted here, on the premise that
a legitimate need exists to test the posting, propagation, and recovery
of binary programs. That said,

1. The posting of copyrighted programs without the permission of
the copyright owner is prohibited; and

2. As binary messages consume massive quantities of bandwidth, it
is strongly requested that binary attachments exceeding 100K in
size not be posted here.

Attachments should be posted using Base64 (e.g., MIME), UUcode,
hexadecimal, or other similar encoding. Any process which reduces
original binary material to 7-bit US-ASCII characters is acceptable.
The posting of raw 8-bit material is NOT allowed.

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