From group-admin@isc.org Mon Mar 24 07:45:16 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <859217413.11509@isc.org> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:30:13 GMT Lines: 143 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 iQCVAwUBMzaeBcJdOtO4janBAQEL6AQAh4bGbBKhtHxsNkMNmXeCZic44syLmB59 MBcBf1Ksp9aDi5rUPJ3oOauiSc4puYZ9ZfUsWHTZZp8SUsmWTMFoXQOb6xc7K/ks 2jqQz11JarJqZnBeKZU752CTCI4pjeAO1E5hw7XW/Vk+bVqEnQ6bG1Ro+sQqGvoT /4YIXXXrDOE= =dtan Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:3015 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From tale@uunet.uu.net Mon Mar 24 13:45:10 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <859239007.12902@isc.org> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:30:07 GMT Lines: 143 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 iQCVAwUBMzbyX8JdOtO4janBAQGGRgP/WRTe1Px5pCe2lhPkJMKGCXFzJLyfRyWB P21iAg8Gg3soqqd4Zt2SfNksGWSg6PBu/XbpzcyWgxNCXXnQp9Aeo/G11NXQZf14 W+BVDbKU/KGgP+1+UDiW474H1BINk0zlxakJ+aRgKw1DSusgD24HB6eCFIezk/ih fEPmVDdbqAk= =GZEe Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:3028 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From group-admin@isc.org Tue Mar 25 22:29:18 1997 Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Path: news.isc.org!vixie!data.ramona.vix.com!sonysjc!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!btnet!btnet-feed2!unlisys!fu-berlin.de!unihil!baghira.han.de!ps386!news From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Distribution: local iQCVAwUBMzaeBcJdOtO4janBAQEL6AQAh4bGbBKhtHxsNkMNmXeCZic44syLmB59 MBcBf1Ksp9aDi5rUPJ3oOauiSc4puYZ9ZfUsWHTZZp8SUsmWTMFoXQOb6xc7K/ks 2jqQz11JarJqZnBeKZU752CTCI4pjeAO1E5hw7XW/Vk+bVqEnQ6bG1Ro+sQqGvoT /4YIXXXrDOE= =dtan X-Pgp-Sig: 2.6.2 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender Sender: schieb@ps386.han.de X-Info: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/README.html Organization: private Linux-site Lines: 143 Message-ID: <859217413.11509.resent@isc.org> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:30:13 GMT Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:3147 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From group-admin@isc.org Mon Mar 31 07:46:06 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <859822207.6165@isc.org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:30:07 GMT Lines: 143 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 iQCVAwUBMz/Yf8JdOtO4janBAQGokQP9Fs7iRwJVWEP2sc4vurF4jGJj5/U8ving 8VFPt325tDAZHNXfrxgqu4BReiQYy4bzDFEuKR6MuPW1/FHjnAd+sNrNGilLr3Fz 3kvLEwwIzzVL0C5O+CpYoAEFweGAgXvJq332t3zWPpu3jDnfgZ7E5OKQnN7nGOxg xoo1WlQcgRI= =rAV4 Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:3305 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From shb@vnet.net Thu Apr 17 21:13:45 1997 Path: news.isc.org!uunet!in1.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!ralph.vnet.net!not-for-mail From: shb@vnet.net (Si Ballenger) Newsgroups: vnet.test Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:29:39 GMT Organization: maybe later... Lines: 3 Approved: shb@vnet.net Message-ID: <5j6pqn$9jp$8@ralph.vnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shb.vnet.net X-No-Archive: Yes X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:3888 Control message to add soc.culture.african.american.moderated to vnet news server. From shb@vnet.net Thu Apr 17 21:13:45 1997 Path: news.isc.org!uunet!in2.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!ralph.vnet.net!not-for-mail From: shb@vnet.net (Si Ballenger) Newsgroups: vnet.test Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:25:21 GMT Organization: maybe later... Lines: 2 Approved: shb@vnet.net Message-ID: <5j6pik$9jp$7@ralph.vnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shb.vnet.net X-No-Archive: Yes X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:3887 From group-admin@isc.org Fri Apr 18 15:30:08 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <861401835.14076@isc.org> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 22:17:15 GMT Lines: 143 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 iQCVAwUBM1fy7MJdOtO4janBAQFG4QP/bjsjoC/m0wEzOS/aKUnX+VwkrgDjSJ6Q GPUlXWawLYmfwke+dlzlqWKzySj+nwaC8qXk8FBdf3ctPrJw3j1cunsT4MZZLOv8 pYhLpPVhjIKPsFJ0/nBrePwLSumIwph5HWXfkP6zhF9tSs7sTw0VJQzHL2dkP3zT Yqdyj7BjQ5s= =lyJz Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:3913 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From group-admin@isc.org Thu Apr 24 10:45:48 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <861892207.7365@isc.org> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:30:07 GMT Lines: 143 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 iQCVAwUBM19ub8JdOtO4janBAQF/SAP/RmF38uWYsBGSBHs0SRZPGKF4N7hWdPon q9QuwSSrRD161cKNZjsJ7WJLnSZGG0Km4g/KIJPKaXlfsu5kGGEPsat+0lMhwpYM ePR+PuGHcoocVBphRdD0eX4IU1O0MT47ww96spmEieav3aAY9dpys6cRiaAT6ioT Q2Gn4MSgZdc= =ynuR Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:4062 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From group-admin@isc.org Fri Apr 25 15:44:52 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <862007404.17571@isc.org> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 22:30:04 GMT Lines: 143 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 iQCVAwUBM2EwbMJdOtO4janBAQGKtgP+Jnc4KJ7fYAUrrY4wEJ7ro0E6Ryou+LqR 3BGdYIUog2f226PRUhqmzTurMknxkT/61wrgnbRxG+ufurqGwnXqPggNv6pIoAi8 SbVKAcdHm0TzKov0Gh1gJBfgbf9MN9Satm0Q9zO1+GMmOeBbT4cPHkpsqN/GiMnz xUD8A2SmZVY= =2LAU Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:4102 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From group-admin@isc.org Sun May 18 15:45:05 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <863994601.20149@isc.org> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:30:01 GMT Lines: 143 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 iQCVAwUBM3+C6sJdOtO4janBAQG5CAP+OBPhHL+D14ynzsYkZbx7QAlxybbhVg4t 5OgXg3JBni6lR/ENKInlJRScLgfaFxnA7I5Ya2tIpFPp6xwAX6ka5948aFS7N5wU wq/7qGXsBqhVczZCmw0ot36VeGeMPHU7CZwOgFJBI540BVEMZ2yF3zTb6V/xUtyb NntDG8QBmm4= =Kxg5 Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:4701 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From group-admin@isc.org Mon Aug 4 07:15:06 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <870703582.19495@isc.org> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 14:06:23 GMT Lines: 143 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+Xh38JdOtO4janBAQGqkQP+O/HvqB6HTi2sB0IyfdKnN44tfMtlj7HM esHXdkqe6+5qkh/A0VUNecJmRiJ9LNWN26ai66gLHTuI5tqhjxrSmhOoqPxaA0gW izzFThOplcA/VJ4hfu2SvBrm7VQlFGSrEdE7GuPb84agQZUfzu5fwBOPPbYPZ/uM tGCOZwPrL5o= =Q9ng Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:8267 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience. From tale@uunet.uu.net Mon Aug 4 13:45:16 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.african.american.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Message-ID: <870725702.21375@isc.org> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 20:15:02 GMT Lines: 143 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+Y4RsJdOtO4janBAQHXmgP/bXmoiTzCgNG4UGZp42rf6zhopS8qxzZX dYjXufqMMen0wJu6cUGYoNJmvQvSXYocBhXD34d6s9MgQGBiiIAIiKACZCfr3Ou5 kl+U6K5/pC4XRrBfjzbc7/Bq00SwNnOkybA2HLsLsS4jN3cDXMTXgUSLqhuSkNQm 2CPmGDw3Duo= =P2Xf Xref: news.isc.org control.newgroup:8279 soc.culture.african.american.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 159:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 17 Mar 1997. Group submission address: scaa@bloomcounty.clark.net Moderator contact address: scaa-admin@bloomcounty.clark.net (Arthur Johnson, L. A. Jeter, John Clarke) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.african.american.moderated African-American perspectives. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall serve as a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of African-American culture, for the discussion of issues of concern to African-Americans, and in order to provide an opportunity for African-American fellowship on Usenet. Proponents and opponents of any topics relevant to the above definition are welcome and are encouraged to post to soc.culture.african.american.moderated for the purpose of civil debate and discussion, subject to the restrictions explicitly outlined in the section on moderation policy. Posts which request information about a particular topic of African-American culture are also welcome, and every effort shall be made by the posters of soc.culture.african.american.moderated to compile a thorough text-only FAQ describing the fundamentals of African-American culture, as well as describing the moderation and posting policies of soc.culture.african.american.moderated and its reason for creation. Crossposting of any kind shall not be permitted, excepting administrative posts such as further RFDs, CFVs, the FAQ, and "pointers" to specific threads within soc.culture.african.american.moderated. With the approval of the appropriate administrator such material may be crossposted to news.announce.newgroups, news.answers, news.groups, soc.answers, and any other groups deemed necessary by the moderator(s). The strict policy on crossposting is necessary because various aspects of African-American culture are often viewed as either controversial or else intertwined with other topics. As such, many crossposted discussions frequently are either irrelevant, or only marginally related, to African-American culture. This policy is also necessary in order to eliminate excessive and frequently abusive crossposts, ads, and spamming. In the past, the latter type of posts has been largely responsible for the creation and maintainence of an atmosphere of intimidation on soc.culture.african.american. Both types of posts continue to be a major problem with SCAA. Moderation Policy: The newsgroup shall be moderated through a combination of auto- and hand-moderation. The initial moderators were selected from among volunteers from the regular contributors/readers of soc.culture.african.american. A moderator is free to serve as long as he or she desires to, provided said moderator has not abandoned the newsgroup (see below). The initial size of the moderator panel shall be three. The minimum size of the moderator panel shall be two. The moderators are responsible for making any change in the size of the moderator panel that they deem necessary, compatible with the above minimum size restriction. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the implementation of any such change. The moderators shall be responsible for selecting a new moderator(s) should one of the following occur: (1) retirement of a moderator(s); (2) death of a moderator(s); (3) abandonment of the newsgroup by a moderator(s)*; (4) expansion of the size of the moderator panel. * For the purposes of this charter, abandonment is defined as the neglect of moderator duties by a moderator for 30 consecutive days. New moderators shall be selected from a list of people suggested by the readership of soc.culture.african.american.moderated. A minimum two-thirds majority vote of approval by the moderators is required for the approval of a new moderator. A retiring moderator is required to continue to serve as a moderator until either a replacement is selected, or the size of the moderator panel has been reduced accordingly. The automoderator shall automatically reject all articles that fall into the following categories: A) Articles that contain more than 80 characters per line; B) Articles that are crossposted, except as outlined in the charter; C) Articles containing greater than 50% included text; D) Encoded binary messages; E) Articles whose submitter has been expelled from this newsgroup (see below). The submitters of automatically rejected articles shall be sent a copy of the above rejected categories to inform them of the reason why their submissions were rejected. Moderators may only accept or reject submitted articles in their entirety. Moderators may not edit or attach comments to approved articles, except to warn the posters when they are about to exceed the boundaries of civil debate and discussion, in which case the moderators may attach a brief, relevant comment. Moderators may not exclude any person from soc.culture.african.american.moderated based on his or her race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. The moderator(s) are permitted to post their own replies to others' articles, as well as their own articles, to soc.culture.african.american.moderated, subject to the conditions outlined in the charter. Any submitter of a post that is rejected because it is considered off-topic (defined below) may appeal said rejection to the entire panel of moderators. If at least one-half of the moderator panel agrees that the post should have been approved, it shall be declared so and posted to the newsgroup. The moderators of soc.culture.african.american.moderated shall be required to post a digest of all rejected postings to the newsgroup at biweekly intervals. Postings of a commercial nature shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject said postings if and when they appear, return them to the submitter, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. Postings commonly acknowledged by the Usenet community to be "spam" or similar forms of net-abuse, e.g. personal attacks, ethnic baiting, posting of private e-mail, forged postings, shall not be permitted; the moderator(s) are authorized to reject (or cancel, in the case of forged postings) all such posts, return them to the submitter, inform the submitter of his or her decision, and forward a copy of the charter and moderation policy of this newsgroup. If the abuse persists after an initial warning, the submitter may, upon unanimous consent of the moderator panel, be expelled from the newsgroup for a period of two months. In addition, moderator(s) are authorized, at their discretion, to inform the submitter's ISP and any other relevant Usenet news administrators for appropriate action. The moderator(s) may also reject postings which are off-topic for the newsgroup. For the purposes of this charter, a posting may be considered off-topic if its content is unrelated to African-American culture or pertains to an issue that has no direct bearing on African-American life or experience.