Welcome to news.admin.announce

[Kathy Morgan]

The following information about news.admin.announce may be found
useful by readers of the group.

*1. Charter*

news.admin.announce is a forum for important announcements for news
administrators. It is a moderated forum, watched over by a team of
moderators for added speed. Possible topics for messages include
announcements regarding news transport or browsing software,
Frequently Asked Questions lists, announcements of new EMP cancellers,
announcements of new cancellation criteria, reports that directly
relate to the future of Usenet, reports on legal issues that directly
affect news administrators such as the Communications Decency Act, and
so forth.

*2. Moderation Policy*

news.admin.announce is moderated by a team of moderators. The
moderators will approve any message that they feel fits the following
criteria:

* The message is an announcement that the moderators feel is
important for most or all news administrators.
* The message is formatted for 78 or fewer characters per line,
and is easily human readable.
* The message is not a binary, nor will it break standard Usenet
readers.
* Followups for the message are set appropriately.

Unapproved posts will be cancelled. At any time, moderators can be
added or removed by a majority vote of the then-current moderators.

*3. Moderators*

As of May 2010, the moderators of news.admin.announce are:

* Aatu Koskensilta
* Kathy Morgan
* Doug Venator

To contact the moderators, send email to
<news-admin-ann...@robomod.net>

*4. Links*

* A version of this article in HTML:
<http://www.robomod.net/news.admin.announce/info.html>
* Article submission address: <news-admi...@robomod.net>
* Google Groups archive:
<http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.announce/about>
* Archive of control messages:

<ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/news/news.admin.announce.gz>