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- From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.announce,rec.answers,news.answers
- Subject: rec.games.roguelike.announce Posting Guidelines
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- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 07:00:03 +0000 (UTC)
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- Last-modified: 2002-06-12 (revision 1.0)
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- Archive-name: games/roguelike/announce
- URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/rgra.html
- Posting-frequency: monthly
-
- rec.games.roguelike.announce is a moderated newsgroup for informational
- posts and announcements about any roguelike game, including (but not
- limited to) Rogue, Nethack, Moria, Angband, and Adom. Since it is a
- moderated group, all postings will be sent to a moderator for approval
- before posting; this means that posts won't show up immediately after you
- post them. Please allow a day or two for your post to show up.
-
- The charter for the group is:
-
- | rec.games.roguelike.announce is a forum for postings of FAQ lists,
- | announcements of new patches and versions of existing games, postings of
- | small "official" patches, and announcements of new rogue-style
- | games. Every posting to this group would be cross-posted to the most
- | appropriate other rec.games.roguelike group, and follows-up would be
- | directed to that group. The moderator could, at his/her discretion,
- | change the subject line of postings (esp. to add the word [SPOILERS]
- | where appropriate).
-
- Announcements of new ftp or web sites related to roguelike games are also
- appropriate and welcome. In these days of ubiquitous ftp and web access,
- pointers to where patches can be retrieved from are probably better than
- posting actual patches.
-
- Most posts to rec.games.roguelike.announce will be crossposted to two
- newsgroups, it and the other most appropriate group in the
- rec.games.roguelike.* hierarchy. Followups will be directed to that other
- group as mentioned in the charter. Please choose your crossposting
- appropriately to save work for the moderator.
-
- Any post containing spoilers should note that in the subject header with a
- tag of "[SPOILERS]". Please also try to ensure that no spoilers occur in
- the first screen of text and that the body of the article also warns about
- spoilers. The moderator will try to catch unmarked spoilers and mark
- them, but may not be able to catch everything; please be careful not to
- accidentally spoil a game for someone else.
-
- All postings to rec.games.roguelike.announce (except for obvious spam)
- will either be approved or will receive a response explaining why they
- were not approved. Note, however, that if you munge your e-mail address
- in a way that the moderator cannot decipher it, there may be no way for
- the response to reach you. If you post to the group and neither receive
- a response nor see your post show up within about three days, please
- contact the moderator to see if there's a problem. It's possible that
- your site doesn't have the group correctly configured.
-
- Also from the charter:
-
- | The moderator will at all times be free to appoint a backup-moderator
- | and/or a replacement if he or she must leave the post. Such an
- | appointment must be announced on rec.games.roguelike.announce. If it
- | becomes necessary to replace the moderator, this could be done with a
- | public vote, announced on news.announce.newgroups (and crossposted to
- | all the rec.games.roguelike groups). A two-thirds vote would be
- | necessary to replace the moderator. [It is possible that the moderator
- | of news.announce.newgroups, group-advice, and such people will come up
- | with an "official" way to replace a moderator; in such a case, their
- | approved method would take precedence over this one.]
-
- The current moderator of this group is Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
- The contact address for the group, to which any problem reports or
- questions should be sent, is rgra-request@eyrie.org. If you are having
- problems posting directly to the group, you can instead e-mail your post
- to the submission address at rgra@eyrie.org.
-
- If you are maintaining a FAQ for any group in the rec.games.roguelike.*
- hierarchy and would like to get pre-approval for posting it to
- rec.games.roguelike.announce, please contact the moderator.
-