Charter & (pointer to) FAQs

CHARTER for REC.CRAFTS.GLASS

PREAMBLE:

The newsgroup rec.crafts.glass was created primarily for the purpose of discussion related to working with glass. In order to improve the mechanism whereby we may do so without undue distraction, we, the netizens of rec.crafts.glass, do hereby ratify the amendments incorporated into this charter.

SCOPE:

The following topics, for example, clearly fall within the scope of our stated purpose:

- the working of glass in any manner including stained glass glass-blowing neon and other luminous tube casting kiln forming and fusing scientific/laboratory flame-work and bead making jewelry making - equipment and tools - techniques - materials - safety - business issues - announcements of conferences, classes, and shows All discussions will be held in English. Posting in other languages is allowed provided an English translation is included.

Commercial announcements(*) will be permitted as long as they are clearly marked as such in the subject by the use of "FS:" "Ad:" or similar indication. Such announcements must address events, goods, or services specifically useful in one or more of the pursuits listed above.

(*)An announcement is defined as a post regarding a single event, or change. It does not include ongoing advertising.

DISCOURAGED

Flame wars or personal attacks.

Posting articles in HTML.

Excessively long signatures, i.e., longer than 4 lines, per common usenet netiquette.

PROHIBITED

Binary content. (Instead, posts should contain links to relevant binary content)

Articles cross-posted to a non-relevant group or to more than three groups total.

Articles which contain less than 10% original content.

Posts which consist primarily of a signature file.

Announcements for events, or advertisements for services or goods which have no relevance to the SCOPE.

Articles of a prurient or obscene nature.

Retromoderation in excess of usenet convention is allowed only to enforce the provisions of this section.

FAQs

FAQ articles will be maintained on two unrelated web servers. The URLs of the topmost FAQ page will be posted to the group twice a month along with this charter.

------------------------------------------------------- FAQs for this group can be found at the following sites:

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Reply to
Steve Ackman
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CHARTER for REC.CRAFTS.GLASS

PREAMBLE:

The newsgroup rec.crafts.glass was created primarily for the purpose of discussion related to working with glass. In order to improve the mechanism whereby we may do so without undue distraction, we, the netizens of rec.crafts.glass, do hereby ratify the amendments incorporated into this charter.

SCOPE:

The following topics, for example, clearly fall within the scope of our stated purpose:

- the working of glass in any manner including stained glass glass-blowing neon and other luminous tube casting kiln forming and fusing scientific/laboratory flame-work and bead making jewelry making - equipment and tools - techniques - materials - safety - business issues - announcements of conferences, classes, and shows All discussions will be held in English. Posting in other languages is allowed provided an English translation is included.

Commercial announcements(*) will be permitted as long as they are clearly marked as such in the subject by the use of "FS:" "Ad:" or similar indication. Such announcements must address events, goods, or services specifically useful in one or more of the pursuits listed above.

(*)An announcement is defined as a post regarding a single event, or change. It does not include ongoing advertising.

DISCOURAGED

Flame wars or personal attacks.

Posting articles in HTML.

Excessively long signatures, i.e., longer than 4 lines, per common usenet netiquette.

PROHIBITED

Binary content. (Instead, posts should contain links to relevant binary content)

Articles cross-posted to a non-relevant group or to more than three groups total.

Articles which contain less than 10% original content.

Posts which consist primarily of a signature file.

Announcements for events, or advertisements for services or goods which have no relevance to the SCOPE.

Articles of a prurient or obscene nature.

Retromoderation in excess of usenet convention is allowed only to enforce the provisions of this section.

FAQs

FAQ articles will be maintained on two unrelated web servers. The URLs of the topmost FAQ page will be posted to the group twice a month along with this charter.

------------------------------------------------------- FAQs for this group can be found at the following sites:

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Reply to
Steve Ackman

Sounds great Steve! No how the heck do we enforce these rules???

- scott gallimore

Reply to
Scott Gallimore

By being vigilant, paying attention, being here more than just once in a while. Contribute for the good of the group. Means asking questions, offering answers, and discussing things from that position. For the good of the group.

Reply to
Javahut

When the charter was written, retromoderation was a good option, but I don't even know if any ISPs honor cancel messages anymore, so the best you can do these days is to learn how to read headers and report the violators.

Used to be a time when a polite e-mail to the ignorant got good results, but these days the ignorant almost all feel they have the right to post whatever, wherever, whenever they want.

Reply to
Steve Ackman

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