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- Contents:
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- 1) History of this forum
- 2) Charter (Original Text)
- 3) Moderation Policy
- 4) Moderation Policies (Amendments 1994)
- 5) Moderators List. Add/del policy. Setup
- 6) Why this forum exits
- 7) Where & How to submit articles
- 8) Some Helpful tips
- 9) World War II Archives: (four) FTP Sites
- 10) 50 YA Archive & Other Files on World-Wide Web (www)
- 11) This FAQ: Archive Info, History & Credits
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- Subject: 1) History of this forum
-
-
- NewsGroup: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
- Description: History & Events of World War Two.
-
-
- Status: moderated
-
- Proponent: Joel Furr (jfurr@acpub.duke.edu)
-
- Request for Discussion: Feb 21, 1994
- Call for Votes: March 23, 1994
- Voting Ended: April 13, 1994 23:59:59 UTC
- Vote Taker: UVV
- Votes: 181 in favor, 17 against
-
-
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- Subject: 2) Charter (Original Text)
-
- Author: Joel Furr
-
-
- Discussion of the era 1939-1945 in particular, but ranging as far back
- as 1918 and as far forward as the 1950's for discussion of events
- leading to the War and post-war events such as the occupation of Japan
- and Germany. The discussion will be limited to social, political,
- military, economic, technological, demographic, and historial aspects of
- World War II, including discussion of:
-
-
-
- * Arms limitations treaties in the 1920's, intended to head
- off any future war
- * the Weimar Republic
- * the rise of the Italian Fascists
- * the Japanese war with China
- * the rise of the Nazi Party
- * American isolationism
- * Franco-British appeasement
- * Italian misadventures in Africa
- * German occupation of the Sudentenland and Austria
- * the war proper, 1939-1945
- * the Manhattan Project
- * the Holocaust
- * Post-war occupation of Japan and Germany
- * Post-war governments of Europe
- * and so on.
-
-
-
-
- In other words, the mandate for soc.history.war.world-war-ii is intended
- to be broad, rather than narrow, with moderation in place less to limit
- discussion than to keep out Gannon and the Holocaust Revisionists and
- other malicious posters. Should Dan Gannon or Serdar Argic submit
- articles which actually discuss World War Two rather than spreading
- their brand of conspiracy theory, their articles will be approved for
- submission as well.
-
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- Subject: 3) Moderation Policy
-
-
- Soc.history.war.world-war-ii will have a very relaxed moderation policy.
- The main purpose, as noted above, for moderation of this group is to
- prevent it from turning into a revisionist flamefest akin to
- misc.headlines or soc.history. As such, any message which actually
- discusses World War II will be approved for posting, provided that it
- does not attempt to claim that events such as the Holocaust never
- happened. There are other groups for discussion of that question, most
- notably, alt.revisionism.
-
- Moderation rules:
-
- * Articles which discuss World War Two and its events will be approved
- for posting.
-
- * Articles arguing that the Holocaust never happened will not be
- approved for posting.
-
- * Articles must contain original thought. Lengthy quoting of source
- material with a couple of lines of comment at the end will not
- be approved for posting.
-
- * Blank messages, test messages, advertisements, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, and so
- forth, will not be approved for posting.
-
- * Articles which include excessive quoting (e.g. an article which quotes
- an entire other article in order to add a few comments at the end)
- will be trimmed down by the moderator in question.
-
- * An article MUST have a valid reply-to address or it will not be
- approved for posting.
-
- * Rejected articles will be shared with the other moderators for group
- consideration.
-
-
- As noted below, the group will be group-moderated, to minimize delay
- between submission and posting and to keep the group running when the
- traffic becomes heavy.
-
- ADDENDUM: 'War Buddies' [June 94]
-
- We've had a few of this type of message lately, and it seems to be a "gray
- area" in our charter. These messages don't _really_ discuss WW2, and they
- don't have any real historical content.
-
- People who want to search for old war buddies should post to soc.veterans.
-
-
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- Subject: 4) Moderation Policies (Amendments 1994)
-
-
- The moderators of soc.history.war.world-war-ii, in exercise of their
- rights to clarify & amend moderation policies for the news group,
- clarify & amend the moderation policies for
- soc.history.war.world-war-ii.
-
- These amendments are effective immediately. Any questions should be
- addressed to: ww2-mod@acpub.duke.edu.
-
-
- QUOTED TEXT:
-
- Any article that contains more than fifty percent quoted material (and
- the author's signature shall not count as original material for purposes
- of determining the proportion) may be trimmed or rejected at the
- discretion of the moderator. In exercising this discretion, the
- moderator shall take readability considerations into account, such as
- the amount of quoted material at the beginning of the message, and the
- size of the blocks of quoted material. An article in which the author
- has included a long article as a quote without making any effort to trim
- the quoted article may be rejected. A moderator may trim quoted material
- from any article at his discretion.
-
-
- SIGNATURE LENGTH:
-
- In keeping with Usenet netiquette conventions, signatures should be
- restricted to four lines. Moderators may, at their discretion, trim
- .sigs to four lines before posting articles.
-
-
- POSTINGS SEEKING 'WAR BUDDIES'
-
- Soc.history.war.world-war-ii is a forum for discussion of WW2 events,
- not to seek out war buddies. Soc.veterans is the most appropriate
- newsgroup to seek out individual veterans. Moderators may, at their
- discretion, reject articles that seek out individual veterans and
- suggest that they be redirected to soc.veterans. However, the moderators
- also recognize that some requests in that vein can generate good
- discussions of history or of resources for WW2 research. Therefore,
- moderators will evaluate such articles before rejecting them, and
- moderators may post such articles if they decide that they have the
- potential to generate WW2 discussion of general interest to the readers
- of the newsgroup.
-
-
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- Subject: 5) Moderators List. Add/del policy. Setup
-
-
-
- Moderators will be added by majority vote of the existing moderators and
- moderators will be removed by 2/3 vote in the event that a moderator is
- shown to be failing to do the job (i.e. not posting anything).
-
-
- LIST OF CURRENT MODERATORS FOR soc.history.war.world-war-ii
- __________________________________________________________________
- Dated: January 10, 1995
-
-
- 1. amcmicha@mason1.gmu.edu Andrew McMichael
- 2. bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil Brett Kottmann
- 3. jbdavis@nando.net John Davis
- 4. kbullock@acpub.duke.edu Kenneth Bullock
- 5. mughal@alumni.caltech.edu Asim Mughal
- 6. rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard Miller
- 7. schafer@anubis.network.com Martin Schafer
-
-
-
- June 09, 1994 - Due to technical problems moderator resigned.
- -------------
- ai292@freenet.carleton.ca Gordon McFee
-
-
- Oct 12, 1994 - E-mail address for moderator John Davis updated.
- ------------
- NEW Address: jbd@netcom.com John Davis
- OLD Address: jbd@osbm.state.nc.us
-
-
- Oct 24, 1994 - Moderator resigns due to other commitments.
- ------------
- jfurr@acpub.duke.edu Joel Furr
-
-
- Jan 10, 1995 - Resignation confirmed
- ------------
- kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Ken McVay
-
-
- Feb 12, 1995 - E-mail address for moderator John Davis updated.
- ------------
- NEW Address: jbdavis@nando.net John Davis
- OLD Address: jbd@netcom.com
-
-
- ADD/DEL POLICY FOR MODERATORS:
- _____________________________
-
- Moderators will be added by majority vote of the existing moderators and
- moderators will be removed by 2/3 vote in the event that a moderator is
- shown to be failing to do the job (i.e. not posting anything).
-
-
-
- MODERATION SETUP/APARATUS
- _________________________
-
- This group will be group-moderated using a Majordomo listserver. It has
- been configured so that each article received at ww2-sub@acpub.duke.edu
- will be sent to the next moderator in turn, using a list of subscribed
- moderators. Hence, the *submission* address for articles will be
- ww2-sub@acpub.duke.edu. The *contact* address for the group, once
- created, will be ww2-mod@acpub.duke.edu.
-
-
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- Subject: 6) Why this Forum Exits?
-
- Author: Joel Furr
-
-
- A war includes more than military events. A war includes social,
- political, economic, military, and demographic events. Discussion of a
- war typically includes the *war era* and not just the war. Present
- groups which exist to discuss military issues are very specific:
- sci.military, alt.folklore.military, alt.war. All of these tend to focus
- very strongly on the military aspects and less on the historical and
- other aspects. Soc.history.war.world-war-ii will encompass all aspects
- of war.
-
- Discussion of World War II and wars in general takes place on a wide
- range of newsgroups, many of which specialize on recent military
- history. The most notable example of war discussion taking place
- elsewhere is the World War II mailing list, which averages 800 kilobytes
- per month of traffic and which almost closed down after presenting far
- too great a load on its moderators than they could handle. The
- moderators of the list are in support of the proposed newsgroup as the
- subject is far larger than can be easily dealt with in mailing list
- form. A newsgroup is needed.
-
-
-
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- Subject: 7) Where & How to submit articles ?
-
-
- There are two ways to do so:
-
- A- Thru USENET
-
- While reading newsgroup soc.history.war.world-war-ii simply respond to
- the artilce or post a new article. The article will be automatically
- routed to one of the active moderators for review.
-
- B- Thru E-MAIL
-
- You may submit your article to the following address. Again, your
- article will reach one of the moderators for review.
-
- The e-mail address is:
-
-
- ww2-sub@acpub.duke.edu
-
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- Subject: 8) Some Helpful Tips
-
-
- It may take up to 1-2 days for your article to be reviewed and another
- day or so for the article to reach your site after being posted from a
- moderator's site.
-
- Articles not deemed fit for posting on the forum will be returned by the
- moderator with an explanation citing a rationale & the guidelines of the
- forum.
-
- 1. Always save a copy of your article you submit till it appears on the
- forum.
-
- 2. If o The article does not appear on the newsgroup o The article was
- not returned back by the moderator o AND 3 days have elapsed.
-
- Then please contact the moderators, asap, at the following email
- address:
-
- ww2-mod@acpub.duke.edu
-
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- Subject: 9) World War II Archives: (four) FTP sites
-
-
- FTP SITE-1:
- ----------
- <jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry & Kim Jewell) June 8, 1994>
-
-
- Host: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
- Directory: /pub/history/military/wwii
- Login: anonymous
- Password: _your_email_address
-
- Directory Listing:
-
- 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (131.215.139.234,3498) (0 bytes).
- 4307.txt* command.decisions/ pictures/
- 50.years.later/ conferences/ policy/
- D-Day/ declaration.of.war/ sept_1939/
- U.S.Army.campaigns/ gpo_wwii.txt* special.studies/
- USN_wwii/ justice.pap* speeches/
- active_carriers.txt* national_arc.txt* treaties/
- balkans.txt* naval_chronology/ wwii-l_digests/
- chrono_1938-41.txt* pearl.harbor/
-
-
- June 11,1994: FTP site byrd is accepting contributions of public
- domain items for the collection. Items should be
- uploaded to /pub/history/submissions.
-
- MORE Info on 'byrd'
-
- <tryhardz@popmail.mcs.com (James P. Long) June 14, 1994>
-
- Some of the subdir's in WWII are Battle of the Bulge/Command
- Decisions/D-Day/Naval Chronology.
-
- The D-Day material contains very detaile studies of Utah Beach and Omaha
- Beach, both done by the War Dept. in 1945 and signed by George Marshall
- (they're in .ZIP format).
-
-
- FTP SITE-2:
- ----------
-
- < jbd@osbm.state.nc.us (John Davis) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 12:13:20 GMT>
-
- [I have changed the archive location where I am storing the 50 YA articles.
- Please follow the instructions below for retrieving the 50 YA articles via
- anonymous FTP. Thanks, John Davis]
-
- The June 1944 50 Years Ago Today articles are now available for downloading
- via anonymous FTP.
-
-
- Instructions for downloading 50 YA articles -
-
- o The articles are stored by month.
- o To retrieve the articles by FTP, " % ftp ftp.netcom.com",
- o enter "anonymous" when prompted for login ID,
- o enter your Internet mail address when prompted for password.
- o To change to the directory where the articles are stored enter
-
- "cd /pub/jbd"
-
- o The file name identifies the month
-
- (example - may1944.txt, contains the May 1944 articles).
-
- Directory Listing:
-
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
- apr1944.txt may1944.txt jun1944.txt
- 226 Transfer complete.
-
-
- FTP SITE-3:
- -----------
-
-
- <Stupendous Man <BKOTTMANN@FALCON.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL> June 17 '94>
-
- The ftp address for Miss. State is:
-
- ftp.msstate.edu
-
- Also note that the archives are available from other servers
- as mirror files.
-
- Here are some more network archive sites:
-
- Name=Unites States Military Academy
- Path=
- Host=euler.math.usma.edu
- #
- Name=History articles (various)
- Path=1ftp:English Server:History:
- Host=english-server.hss.cmu.edu
- #
- Name=White House information
- Path=1/.dir/president.dir
- Host=gopher.tamu.edu
- Port=70
- #
- Name=Federal information services
- Path=1/Other
- Host=stis.nsf.gov
- Port=70
- #
- Name=History Archives and Servers
- Path=1/Subject/History
- Host=riceinfo.rice.edu
- Port=70
-
- FTP SITE-4
- ----------
-
- <BKOTTMANN@FALCON.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 13:32 EDT>
-
- http://enterprise.osd.mil/Demo/WWIInet/
- Type: WWW page
- Access: Public
- Contributions: Mail to owner
-
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- Subject: 10) 50 YA Archive & Other Files on World-Wide Web (www)
-
- >Date: Sun, 9 Oct 1994 05:51:39 -0700
- >From: jbd@netcom.com (John Davis)
-
- 50 YA Archive & other files on World War II are now accessible on
- World Wide Web (www).
-
- URL: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/jbd/ww2.html
-
- "In fact this is the best way to get access to my archives." -John Davis.
-
- ---x---
-
- >From: jbd@netcom.com (John Davis)
- >Subject: www page
- >Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 05:59:06 -0800 (PST)
-
- In my "50 YA" archives, I have added a page for our newsgroup. Basically
- I give an overview of the moderation process and then have a link to the
- FAQ file. If you have time and are interested, how about taking a look at
- it and let me know if I have anything wrong. You can reach the page by
- loading URL: "http://www.webcom.com/~jbd/ww2.html". Then click
- where the newsgroup name is highlighted.
-
-
-
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- Subject: 11) This FAQ: Archive Info, History & Credits
-
- ARCHIVE INFO: This FAQ is archived & availble thru anonymous FTP &
- thru world-wide web.
-
- Anonymous FTP:
- -------------
-
- 1. SITE: rtfm.mit.edu
- Directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers/world-war-2-faq.Z
-
- 2. SITE: ftp.uu.net
- Directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers/world-war-2-faq.Z
-
-
- Word-Wide Web:
- -------------
-
- URL for USENET FAQs:
-
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html
-
- URL for this FAQ:
-
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/world-war-2-faq/faq.html
-
-
-
- HISTORY:
-
- Version 1.0 Released May 10, '94: Total 8 items
- Version 1.2 Released Jun 10, '94: Item #8 new, Item # 9- archive info add
- Version 1.3 Released Jun 15, '94: Item #3, updated, Item #9 expanded
- Version 1.4 Released Jun 26, '94: Item #2, & #8 expanded.
- Version 1.5 Released Jul 17, '94: Item #8 expanded.
- Version 1.6 Released Jul 27, '94: Item #8 more info on 50yrs archive
- Version 1.7 Released Oct 12, '94: Updated #3 & #8, New #9. Total 10 items
- Version 1.8 Released Jan 10, '95: Updated #3, #10, New #4, Total 11 items
- Version 1.9 Released Feb 12, '95: Updated #5.
-
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- CREDITS: WW2 Moderators
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