From tale@uunet.uu.net Wed Dec 18 10:35:01 1996 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated moderated Control: newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <850923008.9057@uunet.uu.net> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:30:08 GMT Lines: 189 X-Info: ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README.html ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README X-PGP-Sig: 2.7 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender iQCVAgUBMrgOAcJdOtO4janBAQHRLwP7BH/Rvcb5QOIcQOj14Rj+d58q4E/rhzJr u4F6PSHYhufWWycqN0OAaT4QlrD7akAhIzzAh45l+Arh5rfyYjVXsgrNi+xQyyw0 K1Qc/O+tWa1NIGtXsHVOsIexxzmamwObXyy1lREleXEhBOGIfoZXncgFs8NYQKVN /VcWMfR+A9w= =+nAc Xref: uunet control.newgroup:19981 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 394:29 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 12 Dec 1996. Group submission address: win95-submission@kenosis.com Moderator contact address: win95-cabal@kenosis.com (Bruce Baugh, Bob Archambault, Iain Bowie, Niklas Matthies, Ted Timmons, Darren Tuetken) For your newsgroups file: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated General Windows95 topics. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated will use a combination of robo- moderation and a team of human moderators. Robo-moderation will be performed by Igor Chudov's S.T.U.M.P. program or similar code modified to suit this newsgroup's circumstances. A post can be auto-approved, auto-rejected, or forwarded to a human moderator for attention. Submitted posts go through this sequence of actions: - The robo-moderation script checks for auto-rejection criteria. If it finds one or more, it returns the post to the sender with an appropriate explanation. - The robo-moderation script checks for thread marking or other indicators that mandate human review. If it finds one or more, it forwards the post to a human moderator for review and action. - The robo-moderation script checks the auto-approval status of the poster. If it finds the poster has auto-approval, it authorizes the post and distributes it to Usenet. - All other posts are sent to human moderators for review and rejection or authorization. 1. Auto-approval Posters who submit five consecutive approved posts will be put onto the auto-approval list. Their future submissions will be automatically approved, unless they violate the guidelines given below. Posters who lose auto-approval status can regain it through a new series of approved posts. Moderators go through the same approval process as other posters, and can lose and regain auto-approval status. Moderators will not review their own messages for compliance with the charter; their posts will be sent to other moderators. 2. Auto-rejection Posts can be automatically rejected for the following reasons. They will be returned to their senders with an explanation of the reason for the rejection. - Crossposting to any non-Win95 newsgroup, except for news.announce.newgroups and administrative newsgroups like comp.answers and news.answers. - Using abusive, profane, obscene, or derogatory language. This includes insulting nicknames for products, like Windoze, Macintrash, and Nutscrape. - Including more than 75% quoted material in a post of more than 20 lines. 3. Human moderation Human moderators will examine the posts neither auto-approved nor auto- rejected. They can manually reject posts for the following reasons. Rejected posts will be returned to their senders with an explanation of the reason for the rejection and, where appropriate, a copy of the newsgroup FAQ. - Posting on non-Win95 subjects. - Personal attacks on other individuals. - Posting nothing more than the equivalent of "me, too!" and the like, in the moderator's judgment. - Posting only questions already answered in the FAQ. - Posting lengthy or repeated advertisements. - Posting UUencoded, MIME-encoded, or any other form of binary message other than Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) signatures. - Posting with a signature file of more than six lines. - Posting nothing but an URL without explanation or context. - Posting with formatting that greatly impairs readability (overly wide or narrow margins, overly eccentric capitalization, etc.). Several kinds of posts are acceptable within specific limits. The FAQ will contain a list of recommended keywords for use in subject lines. Moderators can add an appropriate keyword at their discretion, but will not edit the body or signature file of a message in any way. Companies are welcome to post occasional notices of new products and services. All commercial notices must be 20 lines or less, including signature file. We recommend no more than one post per product per month. Binaries should be posted to an appropriate binaries newsgroup. A brief informative notice should then be sent to this newsgroup. Posts with URLs and information about Web sites are welcome, but must be accompanied by some explanation of what the site offers. Posts which expand upon the FAQ, particularly ones that add information not currently included in the FAQ or which show the limitations of an existing answer, are welcome. 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. There will be an administrative mailing list, on which moderators and other interested people can discuss the enforcement and modification of the guidelines given here. Details of how to join this list will appear in the FAQ. 4. Appeals and Revisions A fraction of the current moderators must agree to take various kinds of action. Where this fraction is anything but an integer number of moderators, the required number is rounded up to the next integer. In the event that a poster on the auto-approval list submits a post that violates the charter, the moderators may, upon two-thirds agreement, remove the poster's auto-approval status. It can be regained through a new series of posts that comply with the charter, just as it was earned earlier. The moderators will post an explanation to the newsgroup, identifying the problem so that others can avoid repeating it. A thread may be marked for human attention upon agreement of two-thirds of the moderators. This overrides normal auto-approval, and brings all posts in the thread to moderator attention so that potential problems can be dealt with before measures as drastic as removal of auto-approval status are called for. Notice of thread marking may be posted to the newsgroup, but is not required. A poster who feels that a rejected post was within the charter can appeal to the administrative list. If two-thirds of the moderators agree that the post should be approved, it will be posted as usual, and the poster's auto-approval status will be restored. 5. Moderator Administration New moderators can be added as deemed appropriate upon the approval of two-thirds of the existing moderators. Posters on the auto-approval list are welcome to volunteer at any time; a special call for volunteers can be posted when an existing moderator steps down. Suggestions of changes in the application of the charter, such as the addition or removal of terms from the auto-rejection list, complaints or compliments about moderator judgments, and other matters related to the running of the newsgroup are welcome on the administrative list, but not on the newsgroup. No post relating to such discussions will be approved for the newsgroup. Any decision made about action to take (or not to take) is final; posters who persist in pressing the issue can be subject to auto-rejection. Keywords and posters' names can be added to or removed from the auto- rejection list upon the agreement of two-thirds of the moderators. The auto-rejection list will always be publicly available on an appropriate Web page and via e-mail, pointed to in the FAQ. No poster should be subject to auto-rejection until submitting at least five consecutive rejected posts, though this threshold may be lowered for spamming or efforts to move administrative list discussions onto the newsgroup. Moderators who engage in sustained violation of the charter in their own posts or their approval or rejection of others' posts can be removed upon the agreement of four-fifths of the other moderators. Changes in administrative practice will be announced to the newsgroup, and documented on an appropriate Web page and made available via e-mail, pointed to in the FAQ. From tale@uunet.uu.net Wed Dec 25 10:35:03 1996 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated moderated Control: newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <851527803.5161@uunet.uu.net> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 15:30:03 GMT Lines: 189 X-Info: ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README.html ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README X-PGP-Sig: 2.7 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender iQCVAgUBMsFIfsJdOtO4janBAQF6SQQAl/fTdbOwA/5vPTktCtnEWmE7ve8jUaXA 8aBMDJEEgzIsMQaSFdtJL/mLCN/Jgb1WsmtobbXsBuqrSxXn+ZmOflgJqquPrcHP /vXW8it3kFmgNMCzSNXD1Xgyr69aQnoKaAkLpQ9EdWJUk7TbkriljESxmofN/zrC eWnICHAKUDI= =ScAX Xref: uunet control.newgroup:20311 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 394:29 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 12 Dec 1996. Group submission address: win95-submission@kenosis.com Moderator contact address: win95-cabal@kenosis.com (Bruce Baugh, Bob Archambault, Iain Bowie, Niklas Matthies, Ted Timmons, Darren Tuetken) For your newsgroups file: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated General Windows95 topics. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated will use a combination of robo- moderation and a team of human moderators. Robo-moderation will be performed by Igor Chudov's S.T.U.M.P. program or similar code modified to suit this newsgroup's circumstances. A post can be auto-approved, auto-rejected, or forwarded to a human moderator for attention. Submitted posts go through this sequence of actions: - The robo-moderation script checks for auto-rejection criteria. If it finds one or more, it returns the post to the sender with an appropriate explanation. - The robo-moderation script checks for thread marking or other indicators that mandate human review. If it finds one or more, it forwards the post to a human moderator for review and action. - The robo-moderation script checks the auto-approval status of the poster. If it finds the poster has auto-approval, it authorizes the post and distributes it to Usenet. - All other posts are sent to human moderators for review and rejection or authorization. 1. Auto-approval Posters who submit five consecutive approved posts will be put onto the auto-approval list. Their future submissions will be automatically approved, unless they violate the guidelines given below. Posters who lose auto-approval status can regain it through a new series of approved posts. Moderators go through the same approval process as other posters, and can lose and regain auto-approval status. Moderators will not review their own messages for compliance with the charter; their posts will be sent to other moderators. 2. Auto-rejection Posts can be automatically rejected for the following reasons. They will be returned to their senders with an explanation of the reason for the rejection. - Crossposting to any non-Win95 newsgroup, except for news.announce.newgroups and administrative newsgroups like comp.answers and news.answers. - Using abusive, profane, obscene, or derogatory language. This includes insulting nicknames for products, like Windoze, Macintrash, and Nutscrape. - Including more than 75% quoted material in a post of more than 20 lines. 3. Human moderation Human moderators will examine the posts neither auto-approved nor auto- rejected. They can manually reject posts for the following reasons. Rejected posts will be returned to their senders with an explanation of the reason for the rejection and, where appropriate, a copy of the newsgroup FAQ. - Posting on non-Win95 subjects. - Personal attacks on other individuals. - Posting nothing more than the equivalent of "me, too!" and the like, in the moderator's judgment. - Posting only questions already answered in the FAQ. - Posting lengthy or repeated advertisements. - Posting UUencoded, MIME-encoded, or any other form of binary message other than Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) signatures. - Posting with a signature file of more than six lines. - Posting nothing but an URL without explanation or context. - Posting with formatting that greatly impairs readability (overly wide or narrow margins, overly eccentric capitalization, etc.). Several kinds of posts are acceptable within specific limits. The FAQ will contain a list of recommended keywords for use in subject lines. Moderators can add an appropriate keyword at their discretion, but will not edit the body or signature file of a message in any way. Companies are welcome to post occasional notices of new products and services. All commercial notices must be 20 lines or less, including signature file. We recommend no more than one post per product per month. Binaries should be posted to an appropriate binaries newsgroup. A brief informative notice should then be sent to this newsgroup. Posts with URLs and information about Web sites are welcome, but must be accompanied by some explanation of what the site offers. Posts which expand upon the FAQ, particularly ones that add information not currently included in the FAQ or which show the limitations of an existing answer, are welcome. 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. There will be an administrative mailing list, on which moderators and other interested people can discuss the enforcement and modification of the guidelines given here. Details of how to join this list will appear in the FAQ. 4. Appeals and Revisions A fraction of the current moderators must agree to take various kinds of action. Where this fraction is anything but an integer number of moderators, the required number is rounded up to the next integer. In the event that a poster on the auto-approval list submits a post that violates the charter, the moderators may, upon two-thirds agreement, remove the poster's auto-approval status. It can be regained through a new series of posts that comply with the charter, just as it was earned earlier. The moderators will post an explanation to the newsgroup, identifying the problem so that others can avoid repeating it. A thread may be marked for human attention upon agreement of two-thirds of the moderators. This overrides normal auto-approval, and brings all posts in the thread to moderator attention so that potential problems can be dealt with before measures as drastic as removal of auto-approval status are called for. Notice of thread marking may be posted to the newsgroup, but is not required. A poster who feels that a rejected post was within the charter can appeal to the administrative list. If two-thirds of the moderators agree that the post should be approved, it will be posted as usual, and the poster's auto-approval status will be restored. 5. Moderator Administration New moderators can be added as deemed appropriate upon the approval of two-thirds of the existing moderators. Posters on the auto-approval list are welcome to volunteer at any time; a special call for volunteers can be posted when an existing moderator steps down. Suggestions of changes in the application of the charter, such as the addition or removal of terms from the auto-rejection list, complaints or compliments about moderator judgments, and other matters related to the running of the newsgroup are welcome on the administrative list, but not on the newsgroup. No post relating to such discussions will be approved for the newsgroup. Any decision made about action to take (or not to take) is final; posters who persist in pressing the issue can be subject to auto-rejection. Keywords and posters' names can be added to or removed from the auto- rejection list upon the agreement of two-thirds of the moderators. The auto-rejection list will always be publicly available on an appropriate Web page and via e-mail, pointed to in the FAQ. No poster should be subject to auto-rejection until submitting at least five consecutive rejected posts, though this threshold may be lowered for spamming or efforts to move administrative list discussions onto the newsgroup. Moderators who engage in sustained violation of the charter in their own posts or their approval or rejection of others' posts can be removed upon the agreement of four-fifths of the other moderators. Changes in administrative practice will be announced to the newsgroup, and documented on an appropriate Web page and made available via e-mail, pointed to in the FAQ. From tale@uunet.uu.net Sat Jan 18 10:35:03 1997 Path: uunet!in3.uu.net!rodan.uu.net!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated moderated Control: newgroup comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <853601403.9451@uunet.uu.net> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 15:30:03 GMT Lines: 189 X-Info: ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README.html ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README X-PGP-Sig: 2.7 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender iQCVAgUBMuDse8JdOtO4janBAQEreAP+I2vcvuugzNOq40uyMuwfNNLVfrODiD6t FIBQwQ0WIyDQm5GMNxLl4tgFNaeg3LHC5zFnQTzHW6j4iWV2Ini5uC6y2Do5eUcK beJim4BtEQAqLpxt/wL4TkBqT+sUxg2auqSzD0uRShCY+JcAKM0pyhVO+9M3CScv BGKwVVuWBMQ= =y1dW Xref: uunet control.newgroup:21532 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 394:29 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 12 Dec 1996. Group submission address: win95-submission@kenosis.com Moderator contact address: win95-cabal@kenosis.com (Bruce Baugh, Bob Archambault, Iain Bowie, Niklas Matthies, Ted Timmons, Darren Tuetken) For your newsgroups file: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated General Windows95 topics. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moderated will use a combination of robo- moderation and a team of human moderators. Robo-moderation will be performed by Igor Chudov's S.T.U.M.P. program or similar code modified to suit this newsgroup's circumstances. A post can be auto-approved, auto-rejected, or forwarded to a human moderator for attention. Submitted posts go through this sequence of actions: - The robo-moderation script checks for auto-rejection criteria. If it finds one or more, it returns the post to the sender with an appropriate explanation. - The robo-moderation script checks for thread marking or other indicators that mandate human review. If it finds one or more, it forwards the post to a human moderator for review and action. - The robo-moderation script checks the auto-approval status of the poster. If it finds the poster has auto-approval, it authorizes the post and distributes it to Usenet. - All other posts are sent to human moderators for review and rejection or authorization. 1. Auto-approval Posters who submit five consecutive approved posts will be put onto the auto-approval list. Their future submissions will be automatically approved, unless they violate the guidelines given below. Posters who lose auto-approval status can regain it through a new series of approved posts. Moderators go through the same approval process as other posters, and can lose and regain auto-approval status. Moderators will not review their own messages for compliance with the charter; their posts will be sent to other moderators. 2. Auto-rejection Posts can be automatically rejected for the following reasons. They will be returned to their senders with an explanation of the reason for the rejection. - Crossposting to any non-Win95 newsgroup, except for news.announce.newgroups and administrative newsgroups like comp.answers and news.answers. - Using abusive, profane, obscene, or derogatory language. This includes insulting nicknames for products, like Windoze, Macintrash, and Nutscrape. - Including more than 75% quoted material in a post of more than 20 lines. 3. Human moderation Human moderators will examine the posts neither auto-approved nor auto- rejected. They can manually reject posts for the following reasons. Rejected posts will be returned to their senders with an explanation of the reason for the rejection and, where appropriate, a copy of the newsgroup FAQ. - Posting on non-Win95 subjects. - Personal attacks on other individuals. - Posting nothing more than the equivalent of "me, too!" and the like, in the moderator's judgment. - Posting only questions already answered in the FAQ. - Posting lengthy or repeated advertisements. - Posting UUencoded, MIME-encoded, or any other form of binary message other than Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) signatures. - Posting with a signature file of more than six lines. - Posting nothing but an URL without explanation or context. - Posting with formatting that greatly impairs readability (overly wide or narrow margins, overly eccentric capitalization, etc.). Several kinds of posts are acceptable within specific limits. The FAQ will contain a list of recommended keywords for use in subject lines. Moderators can add an appropriate keyword at their discretion, but will not edit the body or signature file of a message in any way. Companies are welcome to post occasional notices of new products and services. All commercial notices must be 20 lines or less, including signature file. We recommend no more than one post per product per month. Binaries should be posted to an appropriate binaries newsgroup. A brief informative notice should then be sent to this newsgroup. Posts with URLs and information about Web sites are welcome, but must be accompanied by some explanation of what the site offers. Posts which expand upon the FAQ, particularly ones that add information not currently included in the FAQ or which show the limitations of an existing answer, are welcome. 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. There will be an administrative mailing list, on which moderators and other interested people can discuss the enforcement and modification of the guidelines given here. Details of how to join this list will appear in the FAQ. 4. Appeals and Revisions A fraction of the current moderators must agree to take various kinds of action. Where this fraction is anything but an integer number of moderators, the required number is rounded up to the next integer. In the event that a poster on the auto-approval list submits a post that violates the charter, the moderators may, upon two-thirds agreement, remove the poster's auto-approval status. It can be regained through a new series of posts that comply with the charter, just as it was earned earlier. The moderators will post an explanation to the newsgroup, identifying the problem so that others can avoid repeating it. A thread may be marked for human attention upon agreement of two-thirds of the moderators. This overrides normal auto-approval, and brings all posts in the thread to moderator attention so that potential problems can be dealt with before measures as drastic as removal of auto-approval status are called for. Notice of thread marking may be posted to the newsgroup, but is not required. A poster who feels that a rejected post was within the charter can appeal to the administrative list. If two-thirds of the moderators agree that the post should be approved, it will be posted as usual, and the poster's auto-approval status will be restored. 5. Moderator Administration New moderators can be added as deemed appropriate upon the approval of two-thirds of the existing moderators. Posters on the auto-approval list are welcome to volunteer at any time; a special call for volunteers can be posted when an existing moderator steps down. Suggestions of changes in the application of the charter, such as the addition or removal of terms from the auto-rejection list, complaints or compliments about moderator judgments, and other matters related to the running of the newsgroup are welcome on the administrative list, but not on the newsgroup. No post relating to such discussions will be approved for the newsgroup. Any decision made about action to take (or not to take) is final; posters who persist in pressing the issue can be subject to auto-rejection. Keywords and posters' names can be added to or removed from the auto- rejection list upon the agreement of two-thirds of the moderators. The auto-rejection list will always be publicly available on an appropriate Web page and via e-mail, pointed to in the FAQ. No poster should be subject to auto-rejection until submitting at least five consecutive rejected posts, though this threshold may be lowered for spamming or efforts to move administrative list discussions onto the newsgroup. Moderators who engage in sustained violation of the charter in their own posts or their approval or rejection of others' posts can be removed upon the agreement of four-fifths of the other moderators. Changes in administrative practice will be announced to the newsgroup, and documented on an appropriate Web page and made available via e-mail, pointed to in the FAQ.