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Mike Lovell
May 26, 2012, 3:25:02 PM5/26/12
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Welcome to alt.atheism.moderated. This newsgroup is intended to be a
less noisy, higher quality version of alt.atheism.
You don't have to be an atheist or an agnostic to post here; you are
welcome to put across a religious point of view, so long as you make a
sincere effort at genuine debate.
Firstly, here are a few guidelines to consider when posting:
* Try and make sure your articles have a replyable From: address.
Understandably, due to the SPAM problem of USENET, many posters
choose not to put a viable replyable adress. The moderator accepts
this, but can not reply by e-mail if a post is not approved.
* Please try to keep the line length of material you post to 72
columns or less. This allows plenty of space for people to quote
you and still not overflow 80 columns.
* Please put new text BELOW, not above, quoted text. The server
will not accept posts with more quoted than new text.
* Please do not use supercite to put people's names in front of
every line of text you quote. It turns into a horrible mess
when other people quote it, and some people find it extremely
annoying.
* Avoid 'cutesy' abbreviations, like using "u" instead of "you",
"2" instead of "to", and the like. It's hard to read.
* The moderator considers SPAM to be a grave problem threatening
USENET, and handles SPAM posts very seriously. All SPAM posts are
forwarded to the system administrator of the originating system, and
some are also forwarded to the appropriate criminal and taxation
authorities.
* Many users' nntp servers do not receive all approved posts. This is
a USENET wide problem by no means limited to a.a.m. If your system
does not receive a post, please check Google Groups (formerly Deja)
<http://groups.google.com> before either resubmitting or requesting
a resubmission.
Now, a few rules concerning articles which will be bounced:
1. Postings consisting of material covered by the FAQ files will be
bounced.
2. Postings which are purely preaching, with no attempt at discussion
or debate, will be bounced.
3. Postings which are just abuse or ridicule will be bounced.
4. Arguments over the 'correct' or 'true' definition of words will be
rejected. You can, of course, try to arrive at a mutually
acceptable definition of a word. However, sometimes the process
turns into something like: "It means X" "Sez you! It means Y"
"My dictionary says X!" "My encyclopedia says Y!". Those sorts
of postings will be bounced.
5. No cross-postings to other moderated newsgroups, please. The
Usenet software doesn't handle it properly. Post the article
separately to each group.
6. Postings which do not fit into 80 columns will be bounced.
Quoted text may overflow past column 80; I won't reformat it.
7. Postings where the included text exceeds the new text by a factor
of 1.5 or more will be bounced, unless the quoted text is a
single sentence or paragraph of up to ten lines.
8. Postings which do not contain paragraphs, or are all in upper case,
will be bounced.
less noisy, higher quality version of alt.atheism.
You don't have to be an atheist or an agnostic to post here; you are
welcome to put across a religious point of view, so long as you make a
sincere effort at genuine debate.
Firstly, here are a few guidelines to consider when posting:
* Try and make sure your articles have a replyable From: address.
Understandably, due to the SPAM problem of USENET, many posters
choose not to put a viable replyable adress. The moderator accepts
this, but can not reply by e-mail if a post is not approved.
* Please try to keep the line length of material you post to 72
columns or less. This allows plenty of space for people to quote
you and still not overflow 80 columns.
* Please put new text BELOW, not above, quoted text. The server
will not accept posts with more quoted than new text.
* Please do not use supercite to put people's names in front of
every line of text you quote. It turns into a horrible mess
when other people quote it, and some people find it extremely
annoying.
* Avoid 'cutesy' abbreviations, like using "u" instead of "you",
"2" instead of "to", and the like. It's hard to read.
* The moderator considers SPAM to be a grave problem threatening
USENET, and handles SPAM posts very seriously. All SPAM posts are
forwarded to the system administrator of the originating system, and
some are also forwarded to the appropriate criminal and taxation
authorities.
* Many users' nntp servers do not receive all approved posts. This is
a USENET wide problem by no means limited to a.a.m. If your system
does not receive a post, please check Google Groups (formerly Deja)
<http://groups.google.com> before either resubmitting or requesting
a resubmission.
Now, a few rules concerning articles which will be bounced:
1. Postings consisting of material covered by the FAQ files will be
bounced.
2. Postings which are purely preaching, with no attempt at discussion
or debate, will be bounced.
3. Postings which are just abuse or ridicule will be bounced.
4. Arguments over the 'correct' or 'true' definition of words will be
rejected. You can, of course, try to arrive at a mutually
acceptable definition of a word. However, sometimes the process
turns into something like: "It means X" "Sez you! It means Y"
"My dictionary says X!" "My encyclopedia says Y!". Those sorts
of postings will be bounced.
5. No cross-postings to other moderated newsgroups, please. The
Usenet software doesn't handle it properly. Post the article
separately to each group.
6. Postings which do not fit into 80 columns will be bounced.
Quoted text may overflow past column 80; I won't reformat it.
7. Postings where the included text exceeds the new text by a factor
of 1.5 or more will be bounced, unless the quoted text is a
single sentence or paragraph of up to ten lines.
8. Postings which do not contain paragraphs, or are all in upper case,
will be bounced.
Mike Lovell
May 28, 2012, 3:40:14 PM5/28/12
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You don't have to be an atheist or an agnostic to post here; you are
welcome to put across a religious point of view, so long as you make a
sincere effort at genuine debate.
Firstly, here are a few guidelines to consider when posting:
* Try and make sure your articles have a reply-able From: address.
welcome to put across a religious point of view, so long as you make a
sincere effort at genuine debate.
Firstly, here are a few guidelines to consider when posting:
Understandably, due to the SPAM problem of USENET, many posters
choose not to put a viable reply-able address. The moderator accepts
this, but can not reply by e-mail if a post is not approved.
* Please try to keep the line length of material you post to 72
columns or less. This allows plenty of space for people to quote
you and still not overflow 80 columns.
* Please put new text BELOW, not above, quoted text. The server
will not accept posts with more quoted than new text.
* Please do not use super-cite to put people's names in front of
* Please try to keep the line length of material you post to 72
columns or less. This allows plenty of space for people to quote
you and still not overflow 80 columns.
* Please put new text BELOW, not above, quoted text. The server
will not accept posts with more quoted than new text.
every line of text you quote. It turns into a horrible mess
when other people quote it, and some people find it extremely
annoying.
* Avoid 'cutesy' abbreviations, like using "u" instead of "you",
"2" instead of "to", and the like. It's hard to read.
* The moderator considers SPAM to be a grave problem threatening
USENET, and handles SPAM posts very seriously. All SPAM posts are
forwarded to the system administrator of the originating system, and
some are also forwarded to the appropriate criminal and taxation
authorities.
* Many users' nntp servers do not receive all approved posts. This is
a USENET wide problem by no means limited to a.a.m. If your system
does not receive a post, please check Google Groups (formerly Deja)
<http://groups.google.com> before either resubmitting or requesting
a resubmission.
Now, a few rules concerning articles which will be bounced:
1. Attempts at trolling or flaming
when other people quote it, and some people find it extremely
annoying.
* Avoid 'cutesy' abbreviations, like using "u" instead of "you",
"2" instead of "to", and the like. It's hard to read.
* The moderator considers SPAM to be a grave problem threatening
USENET, and handles SPAM posts very seriously. All SPAM posts are
forwarded to the system administrator of the originating system, and
some are also forwarded to the appropriate criminal and taxation
authorities.
* Many users' nntp servers do not receive all approved posts. This is
a USENET wide problem by no means limited to a.a.m. If your system
does not receive a post, please check Google Groups (formerly Deja)
<http://groups.google.com> before either resubmitting or requesting
a resubmission.
Now, a few rules concerning articles which will be bounced:
2. Postings consisting of material covered by the FAQ files will be
bounced.
3. Postings which are purely preaching, with no attempt at discussion
or debate, will be bounced.
4. Postings which are just abuse or ridicule will be bounced.
5. Arguments over the 'correct' or 'true' definition of words will be
rejected. You can, of course, try to arrive at a mutually
acceptable definition of a word. However, sometimes the process
turns into something like: "It means X" "Sez you! It means Y"
"My dictionary says X!" "My encyclopedia says Y!". Those sorts
of postings will be bounced.
6. No cross-postings to other moderated newsgroups, please. The
acceptable definition of a word. However, sometimes the process
turns into something like: "It means X" "Sez you! It means Y"
"My dictionary says X!" "My encyclopedia says Y!". Those sorts
of postings will be bounced.
Usenet software does not handle it properly. Post the article
separately to each group.
7. Postings which do not fit into 80 columns will be bounced.
Quoted text may overflow past column 80; I won't reformat it.
8. Postings where the included text exceeds the new text by a factor
of 1.5 or more will be bounced, unless the quoted text is a
single sentence or paragraph of up to ten lines.
9. Postings which do not contain paragraphs, or are all in upper case,
single sentence or paragraph of up to ten lines.
will be bounced.
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