[Weekly post] ba.announce moderation policies [last modified: 1998-10-27 01:11:42]

[Scott Hazen Mueller]

Charter:

Ba.announce is for the posting of announcements that would be specifically of
interest to the entire Bay Area Usenet Community. Everyone in the Bay Area
should be able to subscribe without being overwhelmed by volume.

Repetition:

This group is moderated in order to keep the postings on target, and to cut
down repetition. In that vein, repeat postings will be accepted only once
per month unless they add new information or correct an error in a previous
posting. If you wish to post a final reminder just before the event, then the
first post should be a month prior to the last.

Lead time:

It still takes up to a few days for postings to get to the fringes of Usenet.
Please allow 3-5 working days for your submission to be processed, and as much
as another 2-3 days before you see your posting where you read news.

Format:

Postings should be short; the ideal posting (except this one!) is less than
50 lines. Format your postings for 80-column screens, the most common screen
size on the net. Check your spelling and grammar. Include location
information in the Subject: line! Not counting sites in other states and
countries, the Bay Area part of Usenet is at least 6 hours travel time
across.

Calendar Line:

Please include a "calendar line" in your posting if you are posting an event.
This is a one-line summary of your posting that people with automated calendar
managers can simply cut and paste into their schedule. The suggested format
supplies date, time and description, like so:

Aug 3, 1963 3:57PM Zeroth Birthday

This element is not mandatory, and the format may change. The moderator may,
at his discretion, request that this be added to a posting that doesn't have
it if he deems there to be enough time to make the revision and still post
the submission prior to the event.

Subject matter:

Content is restricted to announcements only! Discussion postings will not be
accepted. If you are announcing a meeting for an organization that is not
well-known, you may include a short statement of the organization's history
and purpose as part of the posting. Please do not send us background
material as separate postings; it will be discarded.

Advertisements (for sale, wanted or rentals) will be summarily dropped.

Announcements of seminars should be posted to ba.seminars.

*** No Web sites!

Some examples of appropriate postings:

* An announcement of a meeting of a political organization.

* Party announcements or other social get-togethers.

* Conference schedule announcements, e.g. Interop or Usenix, if it will
be held in the Bay Area.

* Book signings, celebrity visits (authors, Usenet figures, etc).

The moderators are:

sc...@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller), primary

sha...@pobox.com (Teri Miller), backup emeritus

The submission address is:

sfbay-a...@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG

[Scott Hazen Mueller]