Creating Retro-charter for regional newsgroup?
cru3l_3...@salmahayeksknockers.edu
what is not allowed, particularly in regards to selling.
Is it possible to retroactively create a charter for the newsgroup? What is
the process for doing this?
I've checked google, and google groups, but the references to
retro-chartering are few and far between.
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Don Aitken
cru3l_3...@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:
>A regional newsgroup is charterless, causing much debate over what is, and
>what is not allowed, particularly in regards to selling.
>
>Is it possible to retroactively create a charter for the newsgroup? What is
>the process for doing this?
>
>I've checked google, and google groups, but the references to
>retro-chartering are few and far between.
It depends on the hierarchy. It is allowed in some hierarchies (uk.*,
for instance). However, an attempt to adopt a charter which would stop
any significant number of the actual users of the group doing what
they are currently doing would be pretty unpopular anywhere - too much
like censorship. A charter adopted in those circumstances should stick
with formalising current practice. If there is no agreement as to what
that is, you're screwed, basically. As a rule of thumb, if there is an
active debate as to whether something is allowed (as opposed to just a
couple of bozos disagreeing with everybody else), and nobody can find
an applicable rule that says it *isn't* allowed, then it's allowed.
One possible exception - if the posts complained of are marginal to
the topic of the group, and there is another group in the *same*
hierarchy where they would be undoubtedly on-topic, most people would
say that they should move.
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