From tale@uunet.uu.net Tue Sep 27 10:29:37 1994 Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Path: uunet!tale From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Subject: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 14:35:36 GMT Message-ID: Lines: 27 Xref: uunet control:1236870 comp.lang.asm.x86 is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 253:18 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 21 Sep 1994. For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 General 80x86 assembly language programming. The charter, culled from the call for votes: The proposed unmoderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on IBM machines with '86 processors. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to, Assembly language tips and tricks (code techniques) MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language code Assembly language related share/freeware Linking assembly language with other languages Etc . . . Topics that are discouraged are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" High-level language code, except when used for hardware programming From tale@uunet.uu.net Tue Oct 4 10:35:09 1994 Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Path: uunet!tale From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Subject: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 14:30:34 GMT Message-ID: Lines: 27 Xref: uunet control:1255363 comp.lang.asm.x86 is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 253:18 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 21 Sep 1994. For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 General 80x86 assembly language programming. The charter, culled from the call for votes: The proposed unmoderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on IBM machines with '86 processors. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to, Assembly language tips and tricks (code techniques) MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language code Assembly language related share/freeware Linking assembly language with other languages Etc . . . Topics that are discouraged are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" High-level language code, except when used for hardware programming From tale@uunet.uu.net Thu Oct 27 10:34:58 1994 Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Path: uunet!tale From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Subject: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 14:36:06 GMT Message-ID: Lines: 27 Xref: uunet control:1321379 comp.lang.asm.x86 is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 253:18 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 21 Sep 1994. For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 General 80x86 assembly language programming. The charter, culled from the call for votes: The proposed unmoderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on IBM machines with '86 processors. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to, Assembly language tips and tricks (code techniques) MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language code Assembly language related share/freeware Linking assembly language with other languages Etc . . . Topics that are discouraged are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" High-level language code, except when used for hardware programming From tale@uunet.uu.net Wed May 10 18:53:38 1995 Path: uunet!tale From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Subject: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <800145706.7691@uunet.uu.net> Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 22:41:46 GMT Lines: 27 Xref: uunet control:2004936 comp.lang.asm.x86 is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 253:18 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 21 Sep 1994. For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 General 80x86 assembly language programming. The charter, culled from the call for votes: The proposed unmoderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on IBM machines with '86 processors. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to, Assembly language tips and tricks (code techniques) MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language code Assembly language related share/freeware Linking assembly language with other languages Etc . . . Topics that are discouraged are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" High-level language code, except when used for hardware programming From rgil@netcom.com Wed Sep 6 03:20:30 1995 Control: rmgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Newsgroups: control Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!news.roundabout.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!btnet!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!netcom.com!rgil From: rgil@netcom.com (Rich Gilchrest) Subject: cmsg rmgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Message-ID: Organization: your bedroom window X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 06:13:43 GMT Approved: no, but thanks for asking Lines: 2 Sender: rgil@netcom18.netcom.com Xref: uunet control.rmgroup:877 David Springer posts here, and he sucks. Thus, this group deserves to die. From tale@uunet.uu.net Wed Sep 6 11:10:35 1995 Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!tale From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Subject: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <810400157.25136@uunet.uu.net> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 15:09:17 GMT Lines: 27 Xref: uunet control.newgroup:1411 comp.lang.asm.x86 is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 253:18 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 21 Sep 1994. For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 General 80x86 assembly language programming. The charter, culled from the call for votes: The proposed unmoderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on IBM machines with '86 processors. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to, Assembly language tips and tricks (code techniques) MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language code Assembly language related share/freeware Linking assembly language with other languages Etc . . . Topics that are discouraged are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" High-level language code, except when used for hardware programming From group-admin@isc.org Thu Aug 7 07:45:16 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 moderated Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <870964208.5130@isc.org> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 14:30:08 GMT Lines: 150 X-Info: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README.html ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README X-PGP-Sig: 2.6.2 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender iQCVAwUBM+nb8MJdOtO4janBAQFAXwP/c9HvFg9HTCkwKeh2SAnR9HQgv8TboO6M 8Ry6OtRUuAscCU26pMw4Kk6tZs+e+0pnFNigF+KZVgd2Yu9aIY8cw9tSFEnmXbwa cSi5RTtowbsQbfO6miBnhWPnA+GWnTkGCDiOE0AKPXr4APe913SLLhXsR7Z1zlIg QGOD1R1irOk= =RWW+ Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:8349 comp.lang.asm.x86 is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 198:19 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 1 Aug 1997. Group submission address: corylang@magicnet.net Moderator contact address: corylang@magicnet.net (Cory Langston, Jim Neil, Tore Lund, Chuck Crayne, David Lindauer, Phil Carmody, Zackery Waters, Corey Brenner, Ray Moon) For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 Bulletin Board and Q&A for x86 assembly language topics. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: The newly moderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on any machine using an x86 processor or its clones. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to,: Assembly language code tips, tricks, and techniques. MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers NASM, and other non-commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language related utilities commercial/share/free-ware Linking assembly language with other languages Inline x86 programming utilizing assembly emulators in higher level languages Propagation of non-commercial Internet x86 resources Any question/discussion of the direct programming of the x86 Etc... Topics that will be filtered are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" Flames, personal attacks, insults, etc. HLL code, except when used for low-level hardware programming. Product comparisons except when presented in an unbiased fashion. Advertisements unrelated to assembly programming or utilities. Posts in languages other than English will be examined for approval if any of the moderators can read the language in question. There is no guarantee of approval for a post in any language other than English. The newsgroup will be moderated by a Moderation Board, consisting of a Head Moderator and a pool of Backup Moderators. The moderation process will be overseen by the Head Moderator, who may employ assistants from the pool of Backup Moderators as the need arises. Only members of the Moderation Board have the power authority to judge posts. The current moderation procedures and policies will be described in an Administrative Statement, that will be maintained by the Head Moderator, with any changes subject to veto by the Board. The Statement will be posted to the group whenever it changes, and at least once per month. It will be available at all times at an address posted regularly in the group. All posts to the group may be processed through moderation software which will take one of the following actions on each article: 1. Reject it outright if it meets certain criteria; 2. Forward it to a Board member if it meets certain other criteria; or 3. Post it immediately. The criteria being used by either the moderation software or human moderators will be described in the Administrative Statement. They will not refer to the source of the articles except that the Head Moderator may place certain individuals or sites which that repeatedly try to post off-topic material on a "watch list," which will cause their articles to be forwarded to a human moderator for review. The Head Moderator may also declare certain off-topic discussion threads to be "closed," so that no more articles in that thread will be accepted. Rejected articles will, if possible, be returned to the sender along with a letter of explanation. Rejected articles may be appealed to an address specified in the Administrative Statement and or in any letter notice of rejection. If an article was rejected by a human moderator, the appeal will be judged by a different moderator. In the event of abuse of the appeals process, the Moderation Board will decide what action will be taken to deal with the abuse. An article will normally be subject to rejection only at the time it is submitted. Canceling of articles after they have been posted ("retromoderation") will not be used for general content control. Cancellations will be permitted only under the following special circumstances: 1. When performed or requested by the original poster or by his or her Internet Service Provider; 2. When performed by the Head Moderator, to cancel articles with forged approvals; or 3. When performed by reputable third-party cancelers (as determined by the Head Moderator), to cancel articles that are widely considered to be undesirable in most of Usenet, e.g., binaries and excessively multi-posted articles ("spam"). 4. When performed by the Head Moderator, to cancel articles that were approved inadvertently, i.e., (to correct "mistakes"). In addition to rejecting inappropriate articles, the moderators may take measures to discourage users from submitting such articles in the first place, including: 1. Appending short "footers" to all posted articles, informing newcomers of the purpose of the newsgroup and providing references to more detailed information about the newsgroup, the Usenet community, and the Internet in general; and 2. E-mailing "welcome" messages to all first-time posters, containing similar information as in (1). Other than appending a footer or adding headers, the moderators will not modify the content of a posted article. The Head Moderator will submit a report to the Moderation Board each month, providing statistics on the functioning of the group, a summary of the articles appealed, and a list of any changes to the Administrative Statement or the moderation software. The Board may instruct the Head Moderator to eliminate any automatic rejection or forwarding criterion from the moderation software. The Board may elect a new Head Moderator if the position becomes vacant; the Head Moderator or the Board may appoint a Backup Moderator to fill in for the Head Moderator during short periods of absence. The Board also has the power to remove a Head Moderator. It may remove a Head Moderator who has been in office for less than six weeks through a simple majority vote of all members. A Moderator who has been in office for more than six weeks may only be removed by a 2/3 majority vote of those who have been on the Board for at least six weeks. The Board controls its own membership. It may admit new members with a simple majority vote, or remove members who have served for less than six weeks with a simple majority vote. Members who have served longer than six weeks may only be removed by a 2/3 vote of those who have been on the Board for at least six weeks. The Board will make a good-faith effort to maintain a membership of at least three persons. The working charter for the group may be modified by a 2/3 vote of those who have been members of the Moderation Board for at least six weeks. A copy of the current charter will be available at a location given in the Administrative Statement. From tale@uunet.uu.net Thu Aug 7 13:45:09 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 moderated Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <870985804.7249@isc.org> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 20:30:04 GMT Lines: 150 X-Info: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README.html ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README X-PGP-Sig: 2.6.2 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender iQCVAwUBM+owTMJdOtO4janBAQHJcAP/Zq0nTyDleaMScFv21kdI2DUUanhZXxoy P3uXMLFDkx1Zp0MCCDIvT92BldlhQKgiIlT4dtD97qKuVld3X9UUgWlRhMtrH7Fg Cmq0/Lm32sgTexy7wlgcI16ZpH6R3TtB/FAu03Y7zO9UzIqu06ddylmuX/hiG6/i dFNtApqX+oU= =pN7n Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:8358 comp.lang.asm.x86 is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 198:19 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 1 Aug 1997. Group submission address: corylang@magicnet.net Moderator contact address: corylang@magicnet.net (Cory Langston, Jim Neil, Tore Lund, Chuck Crayne, David Lindauer, Phil Carmody, Zackery Waters, Corey Brenner, Ray Moon) For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 Bulletin Board and Q&A for x86 assembly language topics. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: The newly moderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on any machine using an x86 processor or its clones. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to,: Assembly language code tips, tricks, and techniques. MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers NASM, and other non-commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language related utilities commercial/share/free-ware Linking assembly language with other languages Inline x86 programming utilizing assembly emulators in higher level languages Propagation of non-commercial Internet x86 resources Any question/discussion of the direct programming of the x86 Etc... Topics that will be filtered are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" Flames, personal attacks, insults, etc. HLL code, except when used for low-level hardware programming. Product comparisons except when presented in an unbiased fashion. Advertisements unrelated to assembly programming or utilities. Posts in languages other than English will be examined for approval if any of the moderators can read the language in question. There is no guarantee of approval for a post in any language other than English. The newsgroup will be moderated by a Moderation Board, consisting of a Head Moderator and a pool of Backup Moderators. The moderation process will be overseen by the Head Moderator, who may employ assistants from the pool of Backup Moderators as the need arises. Only members of the Moderation Board have the power authority to judge posts. The current moderation procedures and policies will be described in an Administrative Statement, that will be maintained by the Head Moderator, with any changes subject to veto by the Board. The Statement will be posted to the group whenever it changes, and at least once per month. It will be available at all times at an address posted regularly in the group. All posts to the group may be processed through moderation software which will take one of the following actions on each article: 1. Reject it outright if it meets certain criteria; 2. Forward it to a Board member if it meets certain other criteria; or 3. Post it immediately. The criteria being used by either the moderation software or human moderators will be described in the Administrative Statement. They will not refer to the source of the articles except that the Head Moderator may place certain individuals or sites which that repeatedly try to post off-topic material on a "watch list," which will cause their articles to be forwarded to a human moderator for review. The Head Moderator may also declare certain off-topic discussion threads to be "closed," so that no more articles in that thread will be accepted. Rejected articles will, if possible, be returned to the sender along with a letter of explanation. Rejected articles may be appealed to an address specified in the Administrative Statement and or in any letter notice of rejection. If an article was rejected by a human moderator, the appeal will be judged by a different moderator. In the event of abuse of the appeals process, the Moderation Board will decide what action will be taken to deal with the abuse. An article will normally be subject to rejection only at the time it is submitted. Canceling of articles after they have been posted ("retromoderation") will not be used for general content control. Cancellations will be permitted only under the following special circumstances: 1. When performed or requested by the original poster or by his or her Internet Service Provider; 2. When performed by the Head Moderator, to cancel articles with forged approvals; or 3. When performed by reputable third-party cancelers (as determined by the Head Moderator), to cancel articles that are widely considered to be undesirable in most of Usenet, e.g., binaries and excessively multi-posted articles ("spam"). 4. When performed by the Head Moderator, to cancel articles that were approved inadvertently, i.e., (to correct "mistakes"). In addition to rejecting inappropriate articles, the moderators may take measures to discourage users from submitting such articles in the first place, including: 1. Appending short "footers" to all posted articles, informing newcomers of the purpose of the newsgroup and providing references to more detailed information about the newsgroup, the Usenet community, and the Internet in general; and 2. E-mailing "welcome" messages to all first-time posters, containing similar information as in (1). Other than appending a footer or adding headers, the moderators will not modify the content of a posted article. The Head Moderator will submit a report to the Moderation Board each month, providing statistics on the functioning of the group, a summary of the articles appealed, and a list of any changes to the Administrative Statement or the moderation software. The Board may instruct the Head Moderator to eliminate any automatic rejection or forwarding criterion from the moderation software. The Board may elect a new Head Moderator if the position becomes vacant; the Head Moderator or the Board may appoint a Backup Moderator to fill in for the Head Moderator during short periods of absence. The Board also has the power to remove a Head Moderator. It may remove a Head Moderator who has been in office for less than six weeks through a simple majority vote of all members. A Moderator who has been in office for more than six weeks may only be removed by a 2/3 majority vote of those who have been on the Board for at least six weeks. The Board controls its own membership. It may admit new members with a simple majority vote, or remove members who have served for less than six weeks with a simple majority vote. Members who have served longer than six weeks may only be removed by a 2/3 vote of those who have been on the Board for at least six weeks. The Board will make a good-faith effort to maintain a membership of at least three persons. The working charter for the group may be modified by a 2/3 vote of those who have been members of the Moderation Board for at least six weeks. A copy of the current charter will be available at a location given in the Administrative Statement. From tale@uunet.uu.net Fri Aug 8 07:45:11 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 moderated Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <871050608.11430@isc.org> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 14:30:08 GMT Lines: 150 X-Info: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README.html ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README X-PGP-Sig: 2.6.2 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender iQCVAwUBM+stcMJdOtO4janBAQEQjQP9HtuFrBs01p8y2qJKRcDO5n22hbPlb1pj Rri5tIewPyU5MsjTTauL3W/n6bFjnXM9/wcuQKh3pUJvnoV+7G6QCrlimwAQJmJl rtaDpV7mh3q1XClXYPZR2OGnRAZmooRFJXUujzCXjEwJhSJT/OfBny+plqqV5ytH bkZR7VrWkXw= =SB7/ Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:8388 comp.lang.asm.x86 is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 198:19 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 1 Aug 1997. Group submission address: corylang@magicnet.net Moderator contact address: corylang@magicnet.net (Cory Langston, Jim Neil, Tore Lund, Chuck Crayne, David Lindauer, Phil Carmody, Zackery Waters, Corey Brenner, Ray Moon) For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 Bulletin Board and Q&A for x86 assembly language topics. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: The newly moderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on any machine using an x86 processor or its clones. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to,: Assembly language code tips, tricks, and techniques. MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers NASM, and other non-commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language related utilities commercial/share/free-ware Linking assembly language with other languages Inline x86 programming utilizing assembly emulators in higher level languages Propagation of non-commercial Internet x86 resources Any question/discussion of the direct programming of the x86 Etc... Topics that will be filtered are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" Flames, personal attacks, insults, etc. HLL code, except when used for low-level hardware programming. Product comparisons except when presented in an unbiased fashion. Advertisements unrelated to assembly programming or utilities. Posts in languages other than English will be examined for approval if any of the moderators can read the language in question. There is no guarantee of approval for a post in any language other than English. The newsgroup will be moderated by a Moderation Board, consisting of a Head Moderator and a pool of Backup Moderators. The moderation process will be overseen by the Head Moderator, who may employ assistants from the pool of Backup Moderators as the need arises. Only members of the Moderation Board have the power authority to judge posts. The current moderation procedures and policies will be described in an Administrative Statement, that will be maintained by the Head Moderator, with any changes subject to veto by the Board. The Statement will be posted to the group whenever it changes, and at least once per month. It will be available at all times at an address posted regularly in the group. All posts to the group may be processed through moderation software which will take one of the following actions on each article: 1. Reject it outright if it meets certain criteria; 2. Forward it to a Board member if it meets certain other criteria; or 3. Post it immediately. The criteria being used by either the moderation software or human moderators will be described in the Administrative Statement. They will not refer to the source of the articles except that the Head Moderator may place certain individuals or sites which that repeatedly try to post off-topic material on a "watch list," which will cause their articles to be forwarded to a human moderator for review. The Head Moderator may also declare certain off-topic discussion threads to be "closed," so that no more articles in that thread will be accepted. Rejected articles will, if possible, be returned to the sender along with a letter of explanation. Rejected articles may be appealed to an address specified in the Administrative Statement and or in any letter notice of rejection. If an article was rejected by a human moderator, the appeal will be judged by a different moderator. In the event of abuse of the appeals process, the Moderation Board will decide what action will be taken to deal with the abuse. An article will normally be subject to rejection only at the time it is submitted. Canceling of articles after they have been posted ("retromoderation") will not be used for general content control. Cancellations will be permitted only under the following special circumstances: 1. When performed or requested by the original poster or by his or her Internet Service Provider; 2. When performed by the Head Moderator, to cancel articles with forged approvals; or 3. When performed by reputable third-party cancelers (as determined by the Head Moderator), to cancel articles that are widely considered to be undesirable in most of Usenet, e.g., binaries and excessively multi-posted articles ("spam"). 4. When performed by the Head Moderator, to cancel articles that were approved inadvertently, i.e., (to correct "mistakes"). In addition to rejecting inappropriate articles, the moderators may take measures to discourage users from submitting such articles in the first place, including: 1. Appending short "footers" to all posted articles, informing newcomers of the purpose of the newsgroup and providing references to more detailed information about the newsgroup, the Usenet community, and the Internet in general; and 2. E-mailing "welcome" messages to all first-time posters, containing similar information as in (1). Other than appending a footer or adding headers, the moderators will not modify the content of a posted article. The Head Moderator will submit a report to the Moderation Board each month, providing statistics on the functioning of the group, a summary of the articles appealed, and a list of any changes to the Administrative Statement or the moderation software. The Board may instruct the Head Moderator to eliminate any automatic rejection or forwarding criterion from the moderation software. The Board may elect a new Head Moderator if the position becomes vacant; the Head Moderator or the Board may appoint a Backup Moderator to fill in for the Head Moderator during short periods of absence. The Board also has the power to remove a Head Moderator. It may remove a Head Moderator who has been in office for less than six weeks through a simple majority vote of all members. A Moderator who has been in office for more than six weeks may only be removed by a 2/3 majority vote of those who have been on the Board for at least six weeks. The Board controls its own membership. It may admit new members with a simple majority vote, or remove members who have served for less than six weeks with a simple majority vote. Members who have served longer than six weeks may only be removed by a 2/3 vote of those who have been on the Board for at least six weeks. The Board will make a good-faith effort to maintain a membership of at least three persons. The working charter for the group may be modified by a 2/3 vote of those who have been members of the Moderation Board for at least six weeks. A copy of the current charter will be available at a location given in the Administrative Statement. From group-admin@isc.org Thu Aug 14 07:45:06 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86 Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 moderated Control: newgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <871569007.19040@isc.org> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:30:07 GMT Lines: 150 X-Info: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README.html ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README X-PGP-Sig: 2.6.2 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender iQCVAwUBM/MWb8JdOtO4janBAQHdhwQAlk/Oebu6DYUFz/A6UPKZHO277kRc6dBy yh+yX0wE+6tJoryadkodXdDM9Hzc/Uds9AH+m/iyHaAgEqwNLg01GbiwgSH0NdFt ZMPwsfLocV8VsNhszLwWvSpHkwfAvBfgxR7HZX8UaoZQYqcCvnIrQkuJ8Rz0zXlP CGKfG3f8Gk4= =nzZE Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:8477 comp.lang.asm.x86 is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 198:19 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 1 Aug 1997. Group submission address: corylang@magicnet.net Moderator contact address: corylang@magicnet.net (Cory Langston, Jim Neil, Tore Lund, Chuck Crayne, David Lindauer, Phil Carmody, Zackery Waters, Corey Brenner, Ray Moon) For your newsgroups file: comp.lang.asm.x86 Bulletin Board and Q&A for x86 assembly language topics. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: The newly moderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on any machine using an x86 processor or its clones. Appropriate topics would include, but not be limited to,: Assembly language code tips, tricks, and techniques. MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers NASM, and other non-commercial assemblers Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming Assembly language related utilities commercial/share/free-ware Linking assembly language with other languages Inline x86 programming utilizing assembly emulators in higher level languages Propagation of non-commercial Internet x86 resources Any question/discussion of the direct programming of the x86 Etc... Topics that will be filtered are: Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM" Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}" Flames, personal attacks, insults, etc. HLL code, except when used for low-level hardware programming. Product comparisons except when presented in an unbiased fashion. Advertisements unrelated to assembly programming or utilities. Posts in languages other than English will be examined for approval if any of the moderators can read the language in question. There is no guarantee of approval for a post in any language other than English. The newsgroup will be moderated by a Moderation Board, consisting of a Head Moderator and a pool of Backup Moderators. The moderation process will be overseen by the Head Moderator, who may employ assistants from the pool of Backup Moderators as the need arises. Only members of the Moderation Board have the power authority to judge posts. The current moderation procedures and policies will be described in an Administrative Statement, that will be maintained by the Head Moderator, with any changes subject to veto by the Board. The Statement will be posted to the group whenever it changes, and at least once per month. It will be available at all times at an address posted regularly in the group. All posts to the group may be processed through moderation software which will take one of the following actions on each article: 1. Reject it outright if it meets certain criteria; 2. Forward it to a Board member if it meets certain other criteria; or 3. Post it immediately. The criteria being used by either the moderation software or human moderators will be described in the Administrative Statement. They will not refer to the source of the articles except that the Head Moderator may place certain individuals or sites which that repeatedly try to post off-topic material on a "watch list," which will cause their articles to be forwarded to a human moderator for review. The Head Moderator may also declare certain off-topic discussion threads to be "closed," so that no more articles in that thread will be accepted. Rejected articles will, if possible, be returned to the sender along with a letter of explanation. Rejected articles may be appealed to an address specified in the Administrative Statement and or in any letter notice of rejection. If an article was rejected by a human moderator, the appeal will be judged by a different moderator. In the event of abuse of the appeals process, the Moderation Board will decide what action will be taken to deal with the abuse. An article will normally be subject to rejection only at the time it is submitted. Canceling of articles after they have been posted ("retromoderation") will not be used for general content control. Cancellations will be permitted only under the following special circumstances: 1. When performed or requested by the original poster or by his or her Internet Service Provider; 2. When performed by the Head Moderator, to cancel articles with forged approvals; or 3. When performed by reputable third-party cancelers (as determined by the Head Moderator), to cancel articles that are widely considered to be undesirable in most of Usenet, e.g., binaries and excessively multi-posted articles ("spam"). 4. When performed by the Head Moderator, to cancel articles that were approved inadvertently, i.e., (to correct "mistakes"). In addition to rejecting inappropriate articles, the moderators may take measures to discourage users from submitting such articles in the first place, including: 1. Appending short "footers" to all posted articles, informing newcomers of the purpose of the newsgroup and providing references to more detailed information about the newsgroup, the Usenet community, and the Internet in general; and 2. E-mailing "welcome" messages to all first-time posters, containing similar information as in (1). Other than appending a footer or adding headers, the moderators will not modify the content of a posted article. The Head Moderator will submit a report to the Moderation Board each month, providing statistics on the functioning of the group, a summary of the articles appealed, and a list of any changes to the Administrative Statement or the moderation software. The Board may instruct the Head Moderator to eliminate any automatic rejection or forwarding criterion from the moderation software. The Board may elect a new Head Moderator if the position becomes vacant; the Head Moderator or the Board may appoint a Backup Moderator to fill in for the Head Moderator during short periods of absence. The Board also has the power to remove a Head Moderator. It may remove a Head Moderator who has been in office for less than six weeks through a simple majority vote of all members. A Moderator who has been in office for more than six weeks may only be removed by a 2/3 majority vote of those who have been on the Board for at least six weeks. The Board controls its own membership. It may admit new members with a simple majority vote, or remove members who have served for less than six weeks with a simple majority vote. Members who have served longer than six weeks may only be removed by a 2/3 vote of those who have been on the Board for at least six weeks. The Board will make a good-faith effort to maintain a membership of at least three persons. The working charter for the group may be modified by a 2/3 vote of those who have been members of the Moderation Board for at least six weeks. A copy of the current charter will be available at a location given in the Administrative Statement.