Welcome to the NZ Regional Groups
David Farrar
Welcome to the New Zealand Regional Groups. This periodic posting is
designed to answer some of the questions you may have about these
groups.
1. What should be posted here?
According to the Charter :
"Any posts which deal with things of interest to or about the area or
region are welcome and on-topic in this group. This includes
discussions of local activities and events, local non-commercial
buy/sell/wanted posts, local issues and personalities and anything
else that relates to the area covered by the group."
2. What should not be posted here?
Binaries
Chain letters, including "Make Money Fast" articles
Known hoaxes (like the "Good Times Virus")
Articles posted as separate copies to several newsgroups (spam)
Articles excessively cross-posted
Articles containing significantly more quoted than new content
Duplicate/rapidly reposted messages
Commercial messages of any kind.
3. What is considered excessively cross-posted?
A1 : More than four groups
A2: If it is cross-posted to a non regional nz.* group.
4. But this FAQ is cross-posted to more than 4 groups
Umm, aah. Well as the follow-up is set to one group only, then that
is sort of okay. More to the point administrative posts such as FAQs,
RFDs, and CFVs are OK to be crossposted.
5. Should I cross-post to non-regional nz.* groups like
nz.general
Basically No.
This defeats the point of having regional groups. Please post to
either a regional group or a national group but not both, or if you do
please set followups to one group only.
6. What regional groups are there?
nz.reg.auckland.general All about the City of Sails and Region
nz.reg.wellington.general Absolutely positively capital posts
nz.reg.northland.general Cyberdiscussion of the far North
nz.reg.hamilton.general Where it's happening.
nz.reg.bay-of-plenty.general Plenty to talk about in the BoP
nz.reg.gisborne.general First to see the sun each day
nz.reg.hawkes-bay.general The sunny wine capital of NZ
nz.reg.taranaki.general Taranaki - the energy province
nz.reg.manawatu.general Palmie North and Wanganui on-topic here
nz.reg.nelson.general The top talk of the South Island
nz.reg.west-coast.general There's gold in those postings
nz.reg.canterbury.general Tales from the Garden City & Canterbury
nz.reg.dunedin.general NZ's Edinburgh is discussed all right here
nz.reg.southland.general Net Discussions frrrom the deep south
7. What are the boundaries of the regional groups?
Very roughly they correspond to the boundaries of the 14 Regional
Councils. Don't worry if you don't know what these are, for neither
will most of us. Just use common sense for which group is most
appropriate for your posts.
8. Where can I post commercial messages?
nz.biz.misc is the proper group for this
9. When were these groups created?
In November 1997 following lots of discussion and a vote amongst NZ
Usenet users. The results will be placed on a web page shortly.
Future regional groups, if desired, can be proposed in the group
nz.net.admin. See the FAQ listed in question 12 for more details on
this.
10. Who wrote this FAQ?
I did.
11. Why?
Because I proposed the groups and want to make it as easy as possible
for people to use these groups properly, which hopefully this FAQ will
assist towards.
Any changes or suggestion are most welcome and should be sent to
da...@home.net.nz. It is planned that this FAQ will be posted weekly
for the first two months and then fortnightly thereafter.
12. Any last advice?
Yep, don't forget not to excessively cross-post
And also have a read of the FAQ for the whole New Zealand hierarchy if
you haven't already done so. It is at
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/nz-news-hierarchy/
DPF
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