Monthly Charter Post

[ugv* Charter]

This is a regular posting of the charter of uk.games.video.playstation. Please
direct any enquiries to the newsgroup.

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Charter of uk.games.video.playstation (Not Moderated)

This group is for the discussion of the Sony Playstation range
(including the Playstation, the PSone, and the Playstation 2, plus any
other games consoles bearing the "Playstation" name) and its games and
peripherals.

Links to websites are welcome, if they contain news regarding the
Playstation, that could not easily be posted to the group otherwise.

Reviews, hints, tips and cheats are welcome, however spoilers should be
protected with spoiler space of between 10 and 25 lines. Long reviews or
solutions (100 lines or more) should be placed on a web page, and its
URL posted.

Discussions related to the act of piracy are forbidden, as they relate
to an activity illegal under UK law, and invariably lead to long and
unfriendly threads in the newsgroup. Discussions of the politics of
software pricing and supply, or advocacy of legalistic aspects should be
carried out in an appropriate politics or advocacy group.

Posts seeking or providing information intended to assist in copyright
infringement (software piracy) are prohibited. Posters looking for these
topics would be advised to look at alternative top-level hierarchies.

Posters are also requested to refrain from starting any console
comparison, "system wars", or advocacy discussions (such as "Xbox
sux!!!"). Such discussions are often designed to be inflammatory, and
even when not designed to be, can be.

Advertising
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No advertising is allowed in uk.games.video.playstation. There exists a
separate group for advertising, uk.games.video.playstation.forsale - all
advertising posts must be posted to that group, and must not be
crossposted to uk.games.video.playstation.

However, adverts of no more than four lines, which are part of the
poster's regular signature, and which are not the main reason for the
post, are allowed.

Cross-Posting
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Cross-posting in general is discouraged. Cross-posting to newsgroups
outside of the uk.games.video.* hierarchy is strongly discouraged as it
may invite postings which do not conform to this charter. Cross-posting
between uk.games.video.playstation and
uk.games.video.playstation.forsale is banned, apart from posts approved
by con...@usenet.org.uk.

Binaries & Formatting
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Encoded binaries (e.g. pictures, compressed files, etc.) are forbidden.
Cryptographic signatures (e.g. PGP) may be used where authentication is
important and should be as short as possible.

Posts must be readable as plain text. HTML, RTF and similarly formatted
messages are prohibited. To see how to make your newsreader comply with
this, read <http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html>.

Newsgroups line
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uk.games.video.playstation Sony playstation games and hardware.

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