From tale@uunet.uu.net Thu Mar 28 10:36:20 1996 Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.russian.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.russian.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.russian.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <828027012.1242@uunet.uu.net> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:30:12 GMT Lines: 204 Xref: uunet control.newgroup:9079 soc.culture.russian.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 137:37 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 23 Mar 1996. Group submission address: scrm@algebra.com Moderator contact address: scrm-board@algebra.com (Igor Chudov, Eduard Ponarin, Sergei Senin, Vladimir Smirnov, Larisa Streeter, Eugene Zherebilov, Constatin Zhikharev) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.russian.moderated Moderated discussion of Russian culture. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.russian.moderated is a moderated newsgroup for the free exchange of information and opinions on Russian culture, language, history, economics, science, and other topics related to Russia. Posts of the following types shall be off-topic in soc.culture.russian.moderated: 1. Discussion of the alleged massacre of Turks by Armenians in the beginning of the twentieth century; the massacre of Armenians in 1915; contemporary Turkish politics, except insofar as it relates to Russia. 2. Claims that Nazi crimes in 1933-1945 never happened. 3. All national, religious, political and racial hatemongering (represented by the typical cliche "All [...] are [cowards|idiots|traitors|...]). 4. Unwanted and unsolicited commercial advertisements. 5. Crossposts hitting more than five newsgroups. 6. Harassing posts (of the typical form "[...] is a [Nazi|pedophile|forger|...]. Complain about [his|her|its] evil ways to [ISP|employer|Unesco|Cthulhu|Usenet Cabal|...]." 7. Binary files (programs, images, etc.), regardless of the form of encoding The proponent recognizes the distinction between patriotism and jingoistic hatemongering. Further, the distinction between good-natured jokes and harassment is necessarily subjective. The moderators will use their best judgement to extend unbiased and thorough consideration to submissions. Topics pertaining to non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union should be discussed in other newsgroups such as soc.culture.baltic, soc.culture.rep-of-georgia, and so forth. Discussions pertaining to entities within the Russian Federation such as Tatarstan, Saha, Komi, and so forth will be considered on-topic. Discussion of the relations *between* Russia and the former republics are welcome on soc.culture.russian.moderated insofar as it remains relevant to Russia. Cultural meta-discussions are welcome on soc.culture.russian.moderated as long as they bear relevance to Russia, Russians and Russian language or are of general cultural interest, while not being directly related to any particular national culture. The primary languages in the newsgroup are English and Russian (in Latin transliteration and in KOI-8 [RFC-1489] Cyrillic). MODERATION POLICY Soc.culture.russian.moderated shall employ a combination of human and robomoderation. 1. The robomoderator first will screen every article submitted to soc.culture.russian.moderated. It will unequivocally reject any article that falls into one or more of the following categories: A. Articles crossposted to four or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.russian.moderated; B. Articles consisting of more than 20 quoted lines and containing less than 1/4 of original text; C. Articles longer than 400 lines; D. Encoded binary files. Certain other articles may be rejected automatically -- or forwarded to the human moderators for review -- as explained in sections 2-5 below. 2. From time to time, threads that originally pertained to Russia may wander off-topic. When the panel of human moderators sees such off-topic threads developing on soc.culture.russian.moderated, it shall configure the robomoderator to forward any submissions containing the "subject" line in question to the human moderation panel for review. The moderation panel shall take this action by simple majority vote. After the moderation panel has rejected ten articles in a given thread (the articles from entities under temporary ban, as described in the next section, do not count), the robomoderator may automatically reject further contributions to that thread. 3. From time to time, certain individuals may habitually violate the group charter. The robomoderator shall forward submissions from such individuals to the human moderation panel for review. The moderation panel shall so configure the robomoderator by majority vote. If the human moderation panel rejects five consecutive submissions or five submissions within a week from a given author, that author may be temporarily banned from the group. The robomoderator shall reject postings from banned authors for a period not to exceed one month. No individual shall be banned without the consent of three-quarters (3/4) of the moderation panel. 4. The robomoderator shall scan each submission for certain keywords, forwarding any submissions containing these keywords to the panel of human moderators for review. Some keywords present in the text of messages may indicate off-topic posts. "MAKE MONEY FAST" or "My name is Dave Rhodes" are likely to appear in a spam. Likewise, the phrase "criminal Armenian" raises suspicion that the submission is Serdar Argic propaganda. Other racial epithets, slurs and profane terms shall also be included on the list of keywords. Automatic rejection of submissions containing keywords has been considered and rejected, since some people have composed witty spoofs of Serdar Argic's writing and other parodies. Keywords shall be determined by a simple majority of the moderators. 5. The robomoderator shall maintain a database of known soc.culture.russian.moderated readers. When an individual first attempts to post to the group, the robomoderator will screen that individual's submission, rejecting it only if it fails to meet the criteria in section 1 above. The robomoderator will then forward the new poster's submission to the panel of human moderators, who will review it for compliance with the group charter. New posters will be added to the newsgroup database after the moderation panel approves their first post. The robomoderator will also send first-time posters a copy of the group charter. 6. Individuals in the database of known readers may post freely to the group, subject to the conditions in sections 1-4 above. If need arises, the robomoderator may perform PGP verification of the identity of the known reader and, if the reader requests so, automatically reject all the submissions from the reader without a valid PGP signature. 7. The robomoderator or the human moderator, when rejecting a submission, shall send the submission's author a copy of the moderation policy statement and the explanation why the submission was not posted. 8. The panel of human moderators shall maintain a log of its activities. This log shall be posted once every two months, thus making the moderators accountable to the readership. The robomoderation algorithm shall be publicly posted at the same time. 9. The moderation panel may cancel articles that have been posted to soc.culture.russian.moderated due to forgery, errors in the moderation script, and so forth. The number of active moderators in the moderation panel shall initially be seven. Additional moderators may be recruited from the readership as demand warrants. If a moderator wants to retire from the moderation panel, he or she must make a public statement at least one month prior to retirement so that a replacement moderator may be found. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a five-sevenths (5/7) supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 5/7 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. Archived logs of moderation decisions, the list of active subscribers, the Charter, the moderation procedure description and other documents relevant to soc.culture.moderated are to be openly displayed on a specifically designated World-Wide Web page - soc.culture.russian.moderated home page. Subscribers to soc.culture.russian.moderated can appeal the rejection of the articles they submit by sending e-mail to the address specifically designated for this purpose at the computer(s) running the moderating software. The appeal must clearly explain why the author deems the moderation panel decision to reject his or her article to be in disagreement with the Charter. The same e-mail address is to be used for questions and complaints regarding the moderation policy. All appeals must be answered by members of the moderation board within a 10-day period. Articles rejected after the appeal (not exceeding the limit of twenty kilobytes per week per user) are to be displayed for a week on soc.culture.russian.moderated home page. AMENDING THIS CHARTER For the readers of soc.culture.russian.moderated to change or amend this Charter, moderation policy, or membership of the moderation panel, a formal RFD followed by a CFV must be posted to soc.culture.russian and news.groups. The procedure must follow the standard guidelines for the newsgroup status change as described in news.groups FAQ. From tale@uunet.uu.net Thu Apr 4 10:40:50 1996 Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.russian.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.russian.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.russian.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <828631920.6184@uunet.uu.net> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:32:00 GMT Lines: 204 Xref: uunet control.newgroup:9956 soc.culture.russian.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 137:37 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 23 Mar 1996. Group submission address: scrm@algebra.com Moderator contact address: scrm-board@algebra.com (Igor Chudov, Eduard Ponarin, Sergei Senin, Vladimir Smirnov, Larisa Streeter, Eugene Zherebilov, Constatin Zhikharev) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.russian.moderated Moderated discussion of Russian culture. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.russian.moderated is a moderated newsgroup for the free exchange of information and opinions on Russian culture, language, history, economics, science, and other topics related to Russia. Posts of the following types shall be off-topic in soc.culture.russian.moderated: 1. Discussion of the alleged massacre of Turks by Armenians in the beginning of the twentieth century; the massacre of Armenians in 1915; contemporary Turkish politics, except insofar as it relates to Russia. 2. Claims that Nazi crimes in 1933-1945 never happened. 3. All national, religious, political and racial hatemongering (represented by the typical cliche "All [...] are [cowards|idiots|traitors|...]). 4. Unwanted and unsolicited commercial advertisements. 5. Crossposts hitting more than five newsgroups. 6. Harassing posts (of the typical form "[...] is a [Nazi|pedophile|forger|...]. Complain about [his|her|its] evil ways to [ISP|employer|Unesco|Cthulhu|Usenet Cabal|...]." 7. Binary files (programs, images, etc.), regardless of the form of encoding The proponent recognizes the distinction between patriotism and jingoistic hatemongering. Further, the distinction between good-natured jokes and harassment is necessarily subjective. The moderators will use their best judgement to extend unbiased and thorough consideration to submissions. Topics pertaining to non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union should be discussed in other newsgroups such as soc.culture.baltic, soc.culture.rep-of-georgia, and so forth. Discussions pertaining to entities within the Russian Federation such as Tatarstan, Saha, Komi, and so forth will be considered on-topic. Discussion of the relations *between* Russia and the former republics are welcome on soc.culture.russian.moderated insofar as it remains relevant to Russia. Cultural meta-discussions are welcome on soc.culture.russian.moderated as long as they bear relevance to Russia, Russians and Russian language or are of general cultural interest, while not being directly related to any particular national culture. The primary languages in the newsgroup are English and Russian (in Latin transliteration and in KOI-8 [RFC-1489] Cyrillic). MODERATION POLICY Soc.culture.russian.moderated shall employ a combination of human and robomoderation. 1. The robomoderator first will screen every article submitted to soc.culture.russian.moderated. It will unequivocally reject any article that falls into one or more of the following categories: A. Articles crossposted to four or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.russian.moderated; B. Articles consisting of more than 20 quoted lines and containing less than 1/4 of original text; C. Articles longer than 400 lines; D. Encoded binary files. Certain other articles may be rejected automatically -- or forwarded to the human moderators for review -- as explained in sections 2-5 below. 2. From time to time, threads that originally pertained to Russia may wander off-topic. When the panel of human moderators sees such off-topic threads developing on soc.culture.russian.moderated, it shall configure the robomoderator to forward any submissions containing the "subject" line in question to the human moderation panel for review. The moderation panel shall take this action by simple majority vote. After the moderation panel has rejected ten articles in a given thread (the articles from entities under temporary ban, as described in the next section, do not count), the robomoderator may automatically reject further contributions to that thread. 3. From time to time, certain individuals may habitually violate the group charter. The robomoderator shall forward submissions from such individuals to the human moderation panel for review. The moderation panel shall so configure the robomoderator by majority vote. If the human moderation panel rejects five consecutive submissions or five submissions within a week from a given author, that author may be temporarily banned from the group. The robomoderator shall reject postings from banned authors for a period not to exceed one month. No individual shall be banned without the consent of three-quarters (3/4) of the moderation panel. 4. The robomoderator shall scan each submission for certain keywords, forwarding any submissions containing these keywords to the panel of human moderators for review. Some keywords present in the text of messages may indicate off-topic posts. "MAKE MONEY FAST" or "My name is Dave Rhodes" are likely to appear in a spam. Likewise, the phrase "criminal Armenian" raises suspicion that the submission is Serdar Argic propaganda. Other racial epithets, slurs and profane terms shall also be included on the list of keywords. Automatic rejection of submissions containing keywords has been considered and rejected, since some people have composed witty spoofs of Serdar Argic's writing and other parodies. Keywords shall be determined by a simple majority of the moderators. 5. The robomoderator shall maintain a database of known soc.culture.russian.moderated readers. When an individual first attempts to post to the group, the robomoderator will screen that individual's submission, rejecting it only if it fails to meet the criteria in section 1 above. The robomoderator will then forward the new poster's submission to the panel of human moderators, who will review it for compliance with the group charter. New posters will be added to the newsgroup database after the moderation panel approves their first post. The robomoderator will also send first-time posters a copy of the group charter. 6. Individuals in the database of known readers may post freely to the group, subject to the conditions in sections 1-4 above. If need arises, the robomoderator may perform PGP verification of the identity of the known reader and, if the reader requests so, automatically reject all the submissions from the reader without a valid PGP signature. 7. The robomoderator or the human moderator, when rejecting a submission, shall send the submission's author a copy of the moderation policy statement and the explanation why the submission was not posted. 8. The panel of human moderators shall maintain a log of its activities. This log shall be posted once every two months, thus making the moderators accountable to the readership. The robomoderation algorithm shall be publicly posted at the same time. 9. The moderation panel may cancel articles that have been posted to soc.culture.russian.moderated due to forgery, errors in the moderation script, and so forth. The number of active moderators in the moderation panel shall initially be seven. Additional moderators may be recruited from the readership as demand warrants. If a moderator wants to retire from the moderation panel, he or she must make a public statement at least one month prior to retirement so that a replacement moderator may be found. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a five-sevenths (5/7) supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 5/7 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. Archived logs of moderation decisions, the list of active subscribers, the Charter, the moderation procedure description and other documents relevant to soc.culture.moderated are to be openly displayed on a specifically designated World-Wide Web page - soc.culture.russian.moderated home page. Subscribers to soc.culture.russian.moderated can appeal the rejection of the articles they submit by sending e-mail to the address specifically designated for this purpose at the computer(s) running the moderating software. The appeal must clearly explain why the author deems the moderation panel decision to reject his or her article to be in disagreement with the Charter. The same e-mail address is to be used for questions and complaints regarding the moderation policy. All appeals must be answered by members of the moderation board within a 10-day period. Articles rejected after the appeal (not exceeding the limit of twenty kilobytes per week per user) are to be displayed for a week on soc.culture.russian.moderated home page. AMENDING THIS CHARTER For the readers of soc.culture.russian.moderated to change or amend this Charter, moderation policy, or membership of the moderation panel, a formal RFD followed by a CFV must be posted to soc.culture.russian and news.groups. The procedure must follow the standard guidelines for the newsgroup status change as described in news.groups FAQ. From tale@uunet.uu.net Sun Apr 28 10:38:14 1996 Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!bounce-back From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: soc.culture.russian.moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup soc.culture.russian.moderated moderated Control: newgroup soc.culture.russian.moderated moderated Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <830701860.16712@uunet.uu.net> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 14:31:00 GMT Lines: 204 X-Info: ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README.html ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/README X-PGP-Sig: 2.7 Subject,Control,Message-ID,Date,From,Sender iQCVAgUBMYOBJcJdOtO4janBAQFn6gP/SsNrSIGPVYfnLILV96Tjdg+sXQ8Qs9Ja EYzY0M0ag35hh7yJg1owh+GURXpecAKY7OpWGQX4SudhZHltBmBH4W5xhiD1nLV/ JOt2gOXfu6DlMBp3whAw9Uz1xlb3MkIXJpMfziM07N0SlSFpvYhDnA6R3MxmyOSt hPyP7X8j07s= =0gE2 Xref: uunet control.newgroup:11418 soc.culture.russian.moderated is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 137:37 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 23 Mar 1996. Group submission address: scrm@algebra.com Moderator contact address: scrm-board@algebra.com (Igor Chudov, Eduard Ponarin, Sergei Senin, Vladimir Smirnov, Larisa Streeter, Eugene Zherebilov, Constatin Zhikharev) For your newsgroups file: soc.culture.russian.moderated Moderated discussion of Russian culture. (Moderated) The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Soc.culture.russian.moderated is a moderated newsgroup for the free exchange of information and opinions on Russian culture, language, history, economics, science, and other topics related to Russia. Posts of the following types shall be off-topic in soc.culture.russian.moderated: 1. Discussion of the alleged massacre of Turks by Armenians in the beginning of the twentieth century; the massacre of Armenians in 1915; contemporary Turkish politics, except insofar as it relates to Russia. 2. Claims that Nazi crimes in 1933-1945 never happened. 3. All national, religious, political and racial hatemongering (represented by the typical cliche "All [...] are [cowards|idiots|traitors|...]). 4. Unwanted and unsolicited commercial advertisements. 5. Crossposts hitting more than five newsgroups. 6. Harassing posts (of the typical form "[...] is a [Nazi|pedophile|forger|...]. Complain about [his|her|its] evil ways to [ISP|employer|Unesco|Cthulhu|Usenet Cabal|...]." 7. Binary files (programs, images, etc.), regardless of the form of encoding The proponent recognizes the distinction between patriotism and jingoistic hatemongering. Further, the distinction between good-natured jokes and harassment is necessarily subjective. The moderators will use their best judgement to extend unbiased and thorough consideration to submissions. Topics pertaining to non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union should be discussed in other newsgroups such as soc.culture.baltic, soc.culture.rep-of-georgia, and so forth. Discussions pertaining to entities within the Russian Federation such as Tatarstan, Saha, Komi, and so forth will be considered on-topic. Discussion of the relations *between* Russia and the former republics are welcome on soc.culture.russian.moderated insofar as it remains relevant to Russia. Cultural meta-discussions are welcome on soc.culture.russian.moderated as long as they bear relevance to Russia, Russians and Russian language or are of general cultural interest, while not being directly related to any particular national culture. The primary languages in the newsgroup are English and Russian (in Latin transliteration and in KOI-8 [RFC-1489] Cyrillic). MODERATION POLICY Soc.culture.russian.moderated shall employ a combination of human and robomoderation. 1. The robomoderator first will screen every article submitted to soc.culture.russian.moderated. It will unequivocally reject any article that falls into one or more of the following categories: A. Articles crossposted to four or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.russian.moderated; B. Articles consisting of more than 20 quoted lines and containing less than 1/4 of original text; C. Articles longer than 400 lines; D. Encoded binary files. Certain other articles may be rejected automatically -- or forwarded to the human moderators for review -- as explained in sections 2-5 below. 2. From time to time, threads that originally pertained to Russia may wander off-topic. When the panel of human moderators sees such off-topic threads developing on soc.culture.russian.moderated, it shall configure the robomoderator to forward any submissions containing the "subject" line in question to the human moderation panel for review. The moderation panel shall take this action by simple majority vote. After the moderation panel has rejected ten articles in a given thread (the articles from entities under temporary ban, as described in the next section, do not count), the robomoderator may automatically reject further contributions to that thread. 3. From time to time, certain individuals may habitually violate the group charter. The robomoderator shall forward submissions from such individuals to the human moderation panel for review. The moderation panel shall so configure the robomoderator by majority vote. If the human moderation panel rejects five consecutive submissions or five submissions within a week from a given author, that author may be temporarily banned from the group. The robomoderator shall reject postings from banned authors for a period not to exceed one month. No individual shall be banned without the consent of three-quarters (3/4) of the moderation panel. 4. The robomoderator shall scan each submission for certain keywords, forwarding any submissions containing these keywords to the panel of human moderators for review. Some keywords present in the text of messages may indicate off-topic posts. "MAKE MONEY FAST" or "My name is Dave Rhodes" are likely to appear in a spam. Likewise, the phrase "criminal Armenian" raises suspicion that the submission is Serdar Argic propaganda. Other racial epithets, slurs and profane terms shall also be included on the list of keywords. Automatic rejection of submissions containing keywords has been considered and rejected, since some people have composed witty spoofs of Serdar Argic's writing and other parodies. Keywords shall be determined by a simple majority of the moderators. 5. The robomoderator shall maintain a database of known soc.culture.russian.moderated readers. When an individual first attempts to post to the group, the robomoderator will screen that individual's submission, rejecting it only if it fails to meet the criteria in section 1 above. The robomoderator will then forward the new poster's submission to the panel of human moderators, who will review it for compliance with the group charter. New posters will be added to the newsgroup database after the moderation panel approves their first post. The robomoderator will also send first-time posters a copy of the group charter. 6. Individuals in the database of known readers may post freely to the group, subject to the conditions in sections 1-4 above. If need arises, the robomoderator may perform PGP verification of the identity of the known reader and, if the reader requests so, automatically reject all the submissions from the reader without a valid PGP signature. 7. The robomoderator or the human moderator, when rejecting a submission, shall send the submission's author a copy of the moderation policy statement and the explanation why the submission was not posted. 8. The panel of human moderators shall maintain a log of its activities. This log shall be posted once every two months, thus making the moderators accountable to the readership. The robomoderation algorithm shall be publicly posted at the same time. 9. The moderation panel may cancel articles that have been posted to soc.culture.russian.moderated due to forgery, errors in the moderation script, and so forth. The number of active moderators in the moderation panel shall initially be seven. Additional moderators may be recruited from the readership as demand warrants. If a moderator wants to retire from the moderation panel, he or she must make a public statement at least one month prior to retirement so that a replacement moderator may be found. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a five-sevenths (5/7) supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 5/7 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. Archived logs of moderation decisions, the list of active subscribers, the Charter, the moderation procedure description and other documents relevant to soc.culture.moderated are to be openly displayed on a specifically designated World-Wide Web page - soc.culture.russian.moderated home page. Subscribers to soc.culture.russian.moderated can appeal the rejection of the articles they submit by sending e-mail to the address specifically designated for this purpose at the computer(s) running the moderating software. The appeal must clearly explain why the author deems the moderation panel decision to reject his or her article to be in disagreement with the Charter. The same e-mail address is to be used for questions and complaints regarding the moderation policy. All appeals must be answered by members of the moderation board within a 10-day period. Articles rejected after the appeal (not exceeding the limit of twenty kilobytes per week per user) are to be displayed for a week on soc.culture.russian.moderated home page. AMENDING THIS CHARTER For the readers of soc.culture.russian.moderated to change or amend this Charter, moderation policy, or membership of the moderation panel, a formal RFD followed by a CFV must be posted to soc.culture.russian and news.groups. The procedure must follow the standard guidelines for the newsgroup status change as described in news.groups FAQ.