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Welcome to rec.arts.sf.starwars.info
Copyright (c) 2003, Brian Edmonds
$Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2003/10/27 17:20:33 $
The latest version of this document can be found at
* http://www.gweep.ca/~robomod/rec.arts.sf.starwars.info/
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: guidelines.txt"
Any inquiries, comments or suggestions should be sent to the group's
moderation coordinator at swinfo-co...@gweep.ca.
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Contents
* Introduction
* Charter
* How to submit a post
* What to expect after posting
* The mailing list
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Introduction
The newsgroup rec.arts.sf.starwars.info was created on May 30th, 1995,
moderated by David Kemper. In May 1997, David retired and passed
moderation of the group to Gus Lopez and Josh Ling. In April 2003
Brian Edmonds took over as lead moderator, with Karen Glaesemann
helping out on the moderation team.
Since its creation a number of control messages have been sent which
at some sites appear to have erroneously changed the status of the
group to unmoderated. If this is the case at your site, you should
bring it to the attention of your news admin, as any postings you make
to a moderated group which is not properly recognized as such at your
site will be silently discarded at any site where the group is
correctly carried as moderated.
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Charter
From the newgroup creation message as stored at ftp.isc.org:
This newsgroup will be a moderated group for the dissemination of
information on topics pertaining to Star Wars.
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How to submit a post
In general you should be able to post just as you would to any other
group, and software should take care of the details of mailing it to
the proper submission address. If your news system is broken and can't
handle this properly, submissions can be mailed to
rec-arts-sf-...@gweep.ca.
Please try posting first and only mail your submissions if that does
not work. You should also bring any problems to the attention of your
local news administrator, and direct him or her to contact the
moderation coordinator if help is needed fixing things.
Submissions must be in plain ASCII format, with lines wrapped
somewhere between column 60 and 79; 72 is recommended. Any attached
images or other binaries will be removed by the moderation software,
and HTML submissions will be converted to text. Submissions which do
not convert cleanly to plain ASCII will be rejected. Exceptions will
be made for PGP signatures and similar small binaries.
Crossposting is allowed to one other (non-moderated) group, and
followups must be set to a single group outside of
rec.arts.sf.starwars.info. If no followup is set it will default to
rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc. Contact the moderators if you believe you
need to exceed these restrictions.
The common language understood by the vast majority of the group's
readers is English, and submissions in any other language must include
an English translation.
All posts (with a working return address) will either be returned with
a rejection notice, or posted to the newsgroup and mailing list. One
exception is that rejection notices for the same error are suppressed
for a few minutes after the first one is sent to reduce the danger of
the robomoderator being used as a mailbombing agent.
Posting with a non-replyable address is strongly discouraged. If you
feel you must post with such an address, please make sure you are not
using one in a valid mail domain; appending .invalid to the address is
the recommended way to ensure this.
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What to expect after posting
If you submit your posting with a valid return address, you should
always receive mail in response from the moderation server. If you do
not use a valid address, please be sure to read the last paragraph in
this section. If you do not hear anything back from the moderation
server within a few hours, then you should contact the group
coordinator at the address given at the beginning of this document.
If the moderation software does not detect any problems with your
submission, then it will send an acknowledgement that your posting has
been received. If it finds any problems then it will return the entire
post with an explanation of the problem(s) it observed. If you have
trouble understanding or correcting the problem, please contact the
group coordinator.
Once your submission has been accepted it will be placed in the
submission pool, from which moderators request work. Depending on how
busy the moderators are it may be handled in anywhere from a few
minutes to a few days. If more than a week passes and you do not
either hear from a moderator or see your submission posted, feel free
to contact the group coordinator to inquire.
If you post from an invalid address, you can still receive mesages
from the moderation server if you register a valid address with the
server (a munged registration). You can read more about address
registration at
* http://www.gweep.ca/~robomod/register.html
* post to the newsgroup or mailing list with the following text in
the subject (without the quotes): "send file: register.txt"
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The mailing list
All postings to rec.arts.sf.starwars.info are also distributed to the
mailing list rec-arts-sf-...@gweep.ca, which is available in
both regular and digest format. For subscription information, visit
the list webpage at
* http://lists.gweep.ca/listinfo.cgi/rec-arts-sf-starwars-info
* or email rec-arts-sf-star...@gweep.ca
Likewise, all postings to the mailing list are also distributed to the
newsgroup, so subscribers can use whichever of the newsgroup, list, or
digest formats is most comfortable.
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Brian Edmonds
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