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- From: photo_buff@freudian.com (M. Dale Konrad)
- Newsgroups: soc.penpals,news.answers,soc.answers
- Subject: soc.penpals FAQ
- Followup-To: soc.penpals
- Date: 7 Apr 2000 21:06:26 -0500
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- Summary: The most important things to know before posting to soc.penpals
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- SOC.PENPALS FAQ
- Last updated December 21, 1999
- Maintained by M. Dale Konrad <photo_buff@freudian.com >
- Copyright 1999,2000 by M. Dale Konrad
- All Rights Reserved
-
- Welcome!
-
- Formed in 1992 soc.penpals has for many people the jumping off point to
- many wonderful years of searching the UseNet.
-
- Please take a moment and read the Soc.Penpals Charter, and Netiquettue
- On soc.penapls
-
- soc.penpals is a place to meet people to correspond with, a UseNet
- classifieds for penpals to meet.
-
- Long winded on going discussions are outside of the scope of the charter
- and soc.penpals newsgroup.
-
- Soc.penpals Charter
-
- A full copy of the charter may be viewed at
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/.vol/9/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.penpals
-
- Name of Newsgroup: SOC.PENPALS
-
- Status: UNMODERATED
-
- Charter: This newsgroup is to make it possible for people on the net to
- make friends and penpals. This will also give people a chance to have
- correspondents in other places of the world, which is helpful for
- travel and tourism. Included will be postings of information about
- people interested in becoming a penpal and also general
- information/questions about certain geographical locations are also
- accepted.
-
- Rationale: It's true that you can meet people through other newsgroups
- but you do not always have the guarantee that they will want to have
- penpals. Having this newsgroup makes it easier to make friends without
- possibly searching endlessly. As one person said to me during the rfd:
- "You can't tell much about a person from an opinion or two in a post".
- In soc.penpals, people would list post some of their interests so
- others would get an idea about whether they'd like to correspond with
- them or not. Also, this newsgroup has often been compared to
- alt.personals. There is one major difference. There would not be any
- anonymous postings. As one person put it: "...a lot hide behind
- anonymity to spew abuse and intolerance". Therefore, without the
- anonymous postings, we may get rid of some of that.
-
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- __
-
- *** Netiquette on soc.penapls ***
-
- Most of the concepts here are the same as in news.announce.newusers. In
- fact,it is *strongly* recommended that you read the etiquette guidelines
- innews.announce.newusers (or in any other introductory text on news
- readers)before you post any articles.
-
- * soc.penpals is NOT a discussion group. It is a
- classifieds for finding penpals
-
- * Please do not post personals. There are groups
- specifically charter for this purpose
-
- * Please do not post requests seeking cyber sex. There
- are groups specifically chartered for this purpose.
-
- * Please do not post binaries. There are
- groups specifically chartered for this purpose.
-
- * Try to keep posts short, remember that someone has to pay for all
- bytes to be transmitted around the world.
-
- * Please do not post advertisements. Soc-penpals is a non-commercial
- newsgroup.
-
- * Please be careful when asking giving advice.
- When asking for advice, please remember this
- is usenet, and double check with a trusted source before using
- anything you receive on the net.
-
- * Please respond via e-mail. This makes it easier for everyone
- Who is seeking a penpal or information to find why they came here.
-
- * If someone takes the time and energy to respond to a post which you
- haveposted, *please* response via
- e-mail. A simple "thank you" goes a long way.
-
- * Please read all follow-ups before posting one of your own; in many
- cases,someone else has already covered the
- same point.
-
- * Please limit the amount of material included from previous postings as
- much as possible, and try to be concise. Signatures should
- be excised. Remember that soc.penpals reaches 42,000 readers a month at
- about 200,000 servers. Many users have to pay for connect time
- or per byte transfers please make sure you include enough
- of the original article so as to make your follow-up sensible.
-
- * Please avoid cross-postings to other newsgroups unless you are
- absolutely sure there is relevance to the other
- group(s).
-
- * Please check your Subject line carefully! This is a very busy
- newsgroup, Subject lines that are vague might not
- catch the eye of the very people who might have something to offer.
-
- * Please remember that this newsgroup has a world-wide readership.
- First, readers whose primary language is not English might not
- know what you are saying when posting.
- Second, please be understanding and patient with spelling or style
- errors made by people who are obviously posting from a non-English
- speaking country. (For that matter, spelling and/or grammatical errors
- should not be pointed out via the newsgroup, but through private
- e-mail if you feel it is absolutely necessary to show someone the
- error.)
-
- * Before posting an article to soc.penpals, please be sure it is
- actually relevant, it is not the only newsgroup on
- Usenet. Many post fit best into talk.bizarre or alt.usenet.kooks.
-
- * While this is a NOT a newsgroup for non-adults to participate
- in, posts from children and teens are often seen in this
- newsgroup.
-
- * Please refrain from name-calling, tantrums or other hysterics-- we get
- enough of that from our trolls.
-
- * A very good article on Netiquette, or network behavior is available
- here http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
-
- * An excellent article on dealing with flames, and trolls is available
- here http://ddi.digital.net/~gandalf/trollfaq.html
-
- * For a very good news filter download the program from this site
-
- www.Nfilter.org
-
- * A very good (but long) history of the internet is located here.
-
- http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2235.html
-
- * An excellant article on spam, spewing, and freedom of speech on the
- net may be found here www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2635.html
-
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