From tale@uunet.uu.net Mon Mar 4 10:35:08 1996 Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.kuwait.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.kuwait.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <825953412.28149@uunet.uu.net> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:30:12 GMT Lines: 95 Xref: uunet control.newgroup:8438 soc.culture.kuwait.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 149:40 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 26 Feb 1996. Group submission address: ammar-submit@kuwait.net Moderator contact address: ammar-request@kuwait.net (Ammar T. Al-Saegh, John W. Temples, Anwar Mohammed) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated Kuwaiti culture, society, and history. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.kuwait.moderated will provide a forum in which to discuss Kuwaiti culture, society, economics, politics, and so forth. Threads may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: 1) Kuwaiti literature, poetry, music, theatre, fine arts, cinema, and television; 2) Technology issues, including Arabic-language software and internet connectivity in Kuwait 3) Kuwaiti folklore and traditions; 4) Kuwaiti cuisine 5) Travel to Kuwait 6) Politics and economics; informations for indivduals seeking to invest in Kuwait; non-Kuwaitis living in Kuwait 7) Education in Kuwait 8) Kuwaitis living overseas 9) Kuwait's role in the Gulf region, the greater Arab world, and the greater Islamic world Moderation Policy: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated will employ a combination of human and robomoderation. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a two-thirds supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 2/3 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. From time to time, the moderation panel may seek new members by posting an announcement to soc.culture.kuwait.moderated. 1) The robomoderator first will screen every article submitted to soc.culture.kuwait.moderated. It will unequivocally reject any article that falls into one or more or the following categories: A) Articles that contain profanity or racial epithets; B) Articles that contain more than 75 characters per line; C) Articles consisting of more than 2/3 quoted text; D) Articles crossposted to three or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.kwuait.moderated; E) Articles containing keywords of common spams, such as "MAKE MONEY FAST" and "magazine subscription"; 2) From time to time, threads that originally pertained to Kuwait may wander off-topic. For instance, many of the Islamic soc.culture.* groups are flooded with flamewars over Turkish-Armenian issues, and over the racial heritage of modern Egyptians. When the panel of human moderators sees such threads developing on soc.culture.kuwait.moderated, they shall configure the robomoderator to reject any submissions containing the "subject" line in question. The moderation panel shall take this action by simple majority vote. 3) Posters who repeatedly violate the group charter may be banned from the group for three months; the robomoderator shall reject their postings for that period of time. No individual shall be banned without the consent of three-quarters (3/4) of the moderation panel. 4) The robomoderator shall maintain a database of known soc.culture.kuwait.moderated readers. When an individual first attempts to post to the group, the robomoderator will screen that individual's subsmission, rejecting it only if it fails to meet the standards mentioned in sections 1-3 above. The robomoderator will then forward the new poster's subsmission to the panel of human moderators, who will review it for strict compliance with the group charter. The robomoderator will also send first-time posters a copy of the group charter, along with a short registration form so that their e-mail addresses may be added to the database of known readers. 5) Individuals in the database of known readers may post freely to the group, so long as the robomoderator does not reject their submissions for failing to meet the standards mentioned in sections 1-3 above. 6) The robomoderator, when rejecting a subsmission, shall send the submission's author a copy of the moderation policy statement, thus explaining why the submission was not posted. From tale@uunet.uu.net Mon Mar 11 10:35:06 1996 Path: uunet!in2.uu.net!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.kuwait.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.kuwait.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <826558261.7596@uunet.uu.net> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:31:01 GMT Lines: 95 Xref: uunet control.newgroup:8629 soc.culture.kuwait.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 149:40 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 26 Feb 1996. Group submission address: ammar-submit@kuwait.net Moderator contact address: ammar-request@kuwait.net (Ammar T. Al-Saegh, John W. Temples, Anwar Mohammed) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated Kuwaiti culture, society, and history. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.kuwait.moderated will provide a forum in which to discuss Kuwaiti culture, society, economics, politics, and so forth. Threads may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: 1) Kuwaiti literature, poetry, music, theatre, fine arts, cinema, and television; 2) Technology issues, including Arabic-language software and internet connectivity in Kuwait 3) Kuwaiti folklore and traditions; 4) Kuwaiti cuisine 5) Travel to Kuwait 6) Politics and economics; informations for indivduals seeking to invest in Kuwait; non-Kuwaitis living in Kuwait 7) Education in Kuwait 8) Kuwaitis living overseas 9) Kuwait's role in the Gulf region, the greater Arab world, and the greater Islamic world Moderation Policy: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated will employ a combination of human and robomoderation. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a two-thirds supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 2/3 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. From time to time, the moderation panel may seek new members by posting an announcement to soc.culture.kuwait.moderated. 1) The robomoderator first will screen every article submitted to soc.culture.kuwait.moderated. It will unequivocally reject any article that falls into one or more or the following categories: A) Articles that contain profanity or racial epithets; B) Articles that contain more than 75 characters per line; C) Articles consisting of more than 2/3 quoted text; D) Articles crossposted to three or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.kwuait.moderated; E) Articles containing keywords of common spams, such as "MAKE MONEY FAST" and "magazine subscription"; 2) From time to time, threads that originally pertained to Kuwait may wander off-topic. For instance, many of the Islamic soc.culture.* groups are flooded with flamewars over Turkish-Armenian issues, and over the racial heritage of modern Egyptians. When the panel of human moderators sees such threads developing on soc.culture.kuwait.moderated, they shall configure the robomoderator to reject any submissions containing the "subject" line in question. The moderation panel shall take this action by simple majority vote. 3) Posters who repeatedly violate the group charter may be banned from the group for three months; the robomoderator shall reject their postings for that period of time. No individual shall be banned without the consent of three-quarters (3/4) of the moderation panel. 4) The robomoderator shall maintain a database of known soc.culture.kuwait.moderated readers. When an individual first attempts to post to the group, the robomoderator will screen that individual's subsmission, rejecting it only if it fails to meet the standards mentioned in sections 1-3 above. The robomoderator will then forward the new poster's subsmission to the panel of human moderators, who will review it for strict compliance with the group charter. The robomoderator will also send first-time posters a copy of the group charter, along with a short registration form so that their e-mail addresses may be added to the database of known readers. 5) Individuals in the database of known readers may post freely to the group, so long as the robomoderator does not reject their submissions for failing to meet the standards mentioned in sections 1-3 above. 6) The robomoderator, when rejecting a subsmission, shall send the submission's author a copy of the moderation policy statement, thus explaining why the submission was not posted. From tale@uunet.uu.net Thu Apr 4 10:41:28 1996 Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.kuwait.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.kuwait.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <828631980.6424@uunet.uu.net> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:33:01 GMT Lines: 95 Xref: uunet control.newgroup:9958 soc.culture.kuwait.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 149:40 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 26 Feb 1996. Group submission address: ammar-submit@kuwait.net Moderator contact address: ammar-request@kuwait.net (Ammar T. Al-Saegh, John W. Temples, Anwar Mohammed) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated Kuwaiti culture, society, and history. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.kuwait.moderated will provide a forum in which to discuss Kuwaiti culture, society, economics, politics, and so forth. Threads may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: 1) Kuwaiti literature, poetry, music, theatre, fine arts, cinema, and television; 2) Technology issues, including Arabic-language software and internet connectivity in Kuwait 3) Kuwaiti folklore and traditions; 4) Kuwaiti cuisine 5) Travel to Kuwait 6) Politics and economics; informations for indivduals seeking to invest in Kuwait; non-Kuwaitis living in Kuwait 7) Education in Kuwait 8) Kuwaitis living overseas 9) Kuwait's role in the Gulf region, the greater Arab world, and the greater Islamic world Moderation Policy: soc.culture.kuwait.moderated will employ a combination of human and robomoderation. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a two-thirds supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 2/3 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. From time to time, the moderation panel may seek new members by posting an announcement to soc.culture.kuwait.moderated. 1) The robomoderator first will screen every article submitted to soc.culture.kuwait.moderated. It will unequivocally reject any article that falls into one or more or the following categories: A) Articles that contain profanity or racial epithets; B) Articles that contain more than 75 characters per line; C) Articles consisting of more than 2/3 quoted text; D) Articles crossposted to three or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.kwuait.moderated; E) Articles containing keywords of common spams, such as "MAKE MONEY FAST" and "magazine subscription"; 2) From time to time, threads that originally pertained to Kuwait may wander off-topic. For instance, many of the Islamic soc.culture.* groups are flooded with flamewars over Turkish-Armenian issues, and over the racial heritage of modern Egyptians. When the panel of human moderators sees such threads developing on soc.culture.kuwait.moderated, they shall configure the robomoderator to reject any submissions containing the "subject" line in question. The moderation panel shall take this action by simple majority vote. 3) Posters who repeatedly violate the group charter may be banned from the group for three months; the robomoderator shall reject their postings for that period of time. No individual shall be banned without the consent of three-quarters (3/4) of the moderation panel. 4) The robomoderator shall maintain a database of known soc.culture.kuwait.moderated readers. When an individual first attempts to post to the group, the robomoderator will screen that individual's subsmission, rejecting it only if it fails to meet the standards mentioned in sections 1-3 above. The robomoderator will then forward the new poster's subsmission to the panel of human moderators, who will review it for strict compliance with the group charter. The robomoderator will also send first-time posters a copy of the group charter, along with a short registration form so that their e-mail addresses may be added to the database of known readers. 5) Individuals in the database of known readers may post freely to the group, so long as the robomoderator does not reject their submissions for failing to meet the standards mentioned in sections 1-3 above. 6) The robomoderator, when rejecting a subsmission, shall send the submission's author a copy of the moderation policy statement, thus explaining why the submission was not posted.