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- From: kids-info-request@ai.mit.edu (Robyn Kozierok, misc.kids.info moderator)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids.info,misc.answers,news.answers
- Subject: Welcome to misc.kids.info!
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- Summary: The charter and moderation policy of misc.kids.info
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- Archive-name: misc-kids/misc-kids-info-faq
- Posting-Frequency: Weekly
- Last-Modified: September 18, 1997
- Version: 1.2
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- Welcome to misc.kids.info. This group is moderated.
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- The charter is:
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- For the periodic posting of informational posts and FAQ files related to
- groups in the misc.kids hierarchy. Occasional one-time announcements
- of interest to misc.kids readers (such as juvenile product recall,
- misc.kids picnics or photoalbums) may be crossposted here from misc.kids
- (and/or the appropriate subgroup(s)). However, as a low volume
- newsgroup, birth announcements, web page announcements, etc. are not
- appropriate for this group. Posts to this group should be informational;
- discussion and questions will not appear here. No advertising. Posters
- should be aware that the moderator cannot do distributions for other
- regions, and that there may be moderation delays.
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- Below I answer the most common questions that come up regarding what postings
- are acceptable in misc.kids.info.
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- Q1. What are the requirements for periodic posts (FAQs) in this group?
- Q2. What types of announcements are appropriate for this group?
- Q3. Where can I find misc.kids FAQs that don't appear here, or which have
- expired at my site?
- Q4. If I can't post it here, where can I post it?
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- Q1. What are the requirements for periodic posts (FAQs) in this group?
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- A1. FAQs in this group have no format requirements. They may be Q/A,
- compilations of postings from misc.kids on a topic, or anything
- else. They should not include privately emailed text without the
- permission of the author.
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- Content-wise, they must have some relevance to parenting, children,
- pregnancy, etc. They must either present all sides of any
- controversial issue broached, or clearly indicate that they are
- written from one particular point of view. They must be
- non-commercial -- product reviews from unaffiliated consumers are
- acceptable, but a FAQ promoting any product will not be accepted.
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- There are two administrative requirements for FAQs in this newsgroup:
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- 1) They must be listed in the misc.kids FAQ index. Contact Maureen
- Vahey (pyewackt@song.iii.net).
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- 2) They must be crossposted to news.answers and misc.answers, which
- are also moderated. Please contact me at kids-info-request@ai.mit.edu
- for the details of how to obtain approval for these groups.
-
- FAQs should *not* be crossposted to misc.kids or any of the other
- groups in the misc.kids hierarchy. Followups, however, *must* be set
- to misc.kids or another appropriate group.
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- Q2. What types of announcements are appropriate for this group?
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- A2. Announcements in this group should be one-time-only non-commercial
- announcements beneficial to the misc.kids community. They should be
- relevant to a large proportion of misc.kids readers, and not just
- those in a small community (misc.kids local get-togethers excepted).
- Examples of the types of announcements permitted in this group are:
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- o Juvenile product recalls o Announcements of misc.kids "community"
- projects, such as local picnics, photo albums, T-shirts, cookbooks,
- etc. (In this case multiple announcements/reminders are permitted.)
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- o Announcements of non-commercial WWW pages of interest to parents
- or children
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- o RFDs and CFVs for groups of interest to the misc.kids community
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- Q3. Where can I find misc.kids FAQs that don't appear here, or which have
- expired at my site?
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- A3. The misc.kids FAQ index is posted here and to misc.kids, news.answers
- and misc.answers on a weekly basis. It contains information on how
- to obtain each of the FAQs, as well as information on misc.kids
- etiquette, and potentially relevant mailing lists. It is also available
- by anonymous ftp at:
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- URL: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/misc-kids/faq
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- Many of the other FAQs are also available in this directory.
-
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- Q4. If I can't post it here, where can I post it?
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- A4. There are several unmoderated newsgroups in the misc.kids hierarchy:
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- misc.kids Children, their behavior and activities.
- misc.kids.pregnancy Pre-pregnancy planning, pregnancy, childbirth.
- misc.kids.consumers Products related to kids.
- misc.kids.vacation Discussion on all forms of family-oriented vacationing.
- misc.kids.computer The use of computers by children.
- misc.kids.health Children's health.
- misc.kids.breastfeeding Information, support, and decisions re breastfeeding.
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- In addition, there are several other Usenet groups of interest to parents
- and children:
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- rec.arts.books.children (children's literature)
- misc.education.home-school.christian Christian home-schooling.
- misc.education.home-school.misc Almost anything about home-schooling.
- soc.adoption.adoptees Discussion of adoption by adoptees. (Moderated)
- soc.adoption.parenting Adoptive parenting by adoptive parents.
- alt.adoption Adopting people.
- alt.child-support Raising children in a split family.
- alt.kids-talk A place for the pre-college set on the net.
- alt.kids-talk.penpals (discussions among children with net access)
- alt.missing-kids Locating missing children.
- alt.parents-teens Discussions about raising teenagers.
- alt.infertility Discussion of infertility causes and treatments.
- alt.support.breastfeeding (dealing with breastfeeding issues)
- alt.support.diabetes.kids Support for kids w/diabetes and their families.
- alt.support.step-parents Dealing with step parents.
- alt.support.single-parents (being a single parent)
- alt.support.foster-parents (being a foster parent)
- alt.parenting.attachment (attachment parenting)
- alt.parenting.spanking (spanking as a disciplinary measure)
- alt.parenting.twins-triplets (parenting multiples)
- alt.parenting.solutions Like misc.kids.*, only different.
- alt.adoption.adoptive.parenting (adoptive parenting)
- alt.adoption.issues (adoption issues)
- alt.adoption.agency Licensed non-profit adoption agency information.
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