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- news - guidelines on usenet news (!) $Revision: 5.3.2.5 $
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- We carry only a partial selection of newsgroups owing to limitations of disk
- space. If there is a group you want to read that is not currently carried,
- then make a request to the system manager, and we will attempt to supply it
- promptly, so long as local disk space will not be unreasonably compromised.
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- No request shall be denied because of the subject matter of the group. No
- attempt will be made to censor incoming news groups, nor the content of the
- individual articles posted thereto. To which groups you choose to subscribe
- and post is your private business, and we make no judgements of such individ-
- ual preferences or choices.
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- If you are not a prior user of usenet news, then DON'T POST until you know
- what you are doing and have read the "netiquette" documents (request your
- own personal printed copy from the system administrator).
-
- You will see a number of (perhaps passionate) discussions regarding "the
- spirit of usenet" - interpretations of what limits, if any, that different
- persons believe should or shouldn't be respected in a worldwide collective
- that is quite accurately described as an "anarchy".
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- Usenet may be an anarchy, but this site is not! We subscribe to the notion
- that each usenet host management should "think globally, act locally", and
- we do so by our own best lights.
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- Therefore, if you do post an article, we ask that you conduct yourself as an
- adult. A modest word is no less effective than a brash one, if you are
- skilled. If you are not skilled, then you won't conceal the fact by resorting
- to gratuitous abuse. Indeed, this deficiency will only be compounded and
- made more visible to everyone around you - both locally and out on the net.
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- If in doubt, trim your sails a bit.
-
- We must point out that any complaints of real abuse (either in one or more
- news postings or private email messages) will be treated seriously if the
- complaint originates from the system administrator of another site.
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- If you have offended some other user elsewhere, but that user is not willing
- to make a formal complaint to his local management, then we have to assume
- the injury was modest and falls within the normal ranges of usenet posting
- behavior (or misbehavior, depending on your view :-).
-
- Likewise, however, the risk *is* yours, so consider carefully who you are
- addressing - some people don't have a sense of humor or a thick hide - and
- it is your personal responsibility to assess this accurately.
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