Charter for sdnet.forsale, San Diego
wkro...@sunstroke.sdsu.edu
Posting-Frequency: [This is an automatic posting of the charter for
sdnet.forsale. Posting Frequency will be on the 1st and 15th of each
month. All discussion should take place in sdnet.config plus the
newsgroup in question.]
Area of Coverage of sdnet.forsale
This newsgroup is for non-commercial advertisements of goods and
services for sale exclusively in the San Diego and surrounding
Areas.
sdnet.forsale is an unmoderated newsgroup.
Intended Use of sdnet.forsale
1.Articles posted in sdnet.forsale should be one-time announcements, not
recurring advertisements. Recurring ads should be on web pages then make
a one-time announcement about the location of the page.
2.Items for sale may be posted once every 2 weeks (14 days), under the
following guidelines.
1.While it remains unsold, as long as the re-posting is
temporary And no post is posted more then once every 14 days.
2.If the item becomes sold, or the price changes, please post a
follow up stating the fact and such changes may be posted
within the 14 day time frame. These *reposts* for price
changes should be of a significant change. Obvious attempts to
post duplicate items within the posting guidelines could
result in an article being canceled instantly and without
warning by an authorized moderation device (human or
otherwise) for the group. If your newsreader supports canceling
your posts, please consider doing such after the item is sold
or making changes to your posts.
3.Non commercial postings only. sdnet.forsale is restricted to individuals
ads. This is not a commercial newsgroup. Commercial includes by definition
but not limited to:
1.Home based business such as Amway distribution.
2.Weekly garage sales.
3.Repeated going out of business sales.
4.Repetitive selling of the same items, leading to
believe you have a never ending supply
from a distribution source.
5.Store Sales, large and small including home based
computer sales.
6.Any item offered for sale for which sales tax will
be collected.
7.Links to commercial auction sites are not permitted.
4.This is a forsale newsgroup, and discussion is not allowed other than
requesting information for a product. It is suggested a valid email
address be posted for contact information.
5.Binaries. This is not a binaries group. Do not post executable, sound
files, image files, etc. in sdnet.forsale.
Topics inappropriate for in sdnet.forsale
The following types of net abuse are severe wastes of bandwidth. As
many smaller sites are connected via slow dial-up links, and may by
paying per-minute charges, this charter allows for the on-sight
cancellation of any of the following abuses:
1."Make Money Fast" (MMF) chain letters and pyramid/Ponzi
schemes. Such schemes are Federal felonies. On Usenet,
promoting waste of bandwidth is the equivalent of a crime
because the system would break down if such activity was left
unchecked.
2.Binaries, such as uuencoding or MIME base 64.
3.MIME/HTML posts, and in particular any posting using a content-
encoding other than 7bit, 8bit, or quoted-printable. Most
users reading Usenet do not use a Web browser, and HTML is
difficult or impossible to read to interpret the content. Some
posters who post HTML also include a plain text version of the
message. This is redundant and wasteful. Please save HTML for
the Web.
4.Links to Commercial Auction sites are not permitted. No Public
Auctions shall be held in this newsgroup. Such auction sites
such as e-bay are not permitted.
5."spew", the reposting of old articles with new Message-ID's.
6."test" messages, Please post these to a test newsgroup.
7.Excessively multiple-posted articles.
8.Articles cross-posted to other regional newsgroups outside the
San Diego (sdnet.*) list.
9.Articles that do not have particular relevance to the San Diego
and surrounding areas.
10.Commercial ads, posts, or advertisements, including URL links
to such.
11.Flaming, Harassing, or otherwise causing undue discussions in
the group.
Off-Topic Articles and subjected to possible cancellation:
+ Spam (as defined by current usenet standards, see;
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html)
+ Spam (as defined by sdnet.* policy) see;
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~wk/sdnet/spamp.html
+ Cross posted articles outside of sdnet.*.
This charter permits the sdnet.* Usenet News Administrators to cancel any
article posted in the sdnet.forsale newsgroup which does not have
particular relevance to the San Diego and surrounding areas, or is in
violation of a relevant sdnet.* charter. Any San Diego area resident may
send e-mail to the posters news administrators for sdnet.forsale charter
violations.
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Bill Kronert San Diego Usenet Admin. - SDNET