Charter for sdnet.gardening, San Diego

wkronert at sunstroke.1sdsu.edu

From:	wkronert at sunstroke.1sdsu.edu
Subject:	Charter for sdnet.gardening, San Diego
Date:	15 Jan 2005 09:02:33 GMT

Archive-name: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~wk/sdnet/index.html
Posting-Frequency: [This is an automatic posting of the charter for
sdnet.gardening. Posting Frequency will be on the 1st and 15th of each
month. All discussion should take place in sdnet.config plus the
newsgroup in question.]

For your newsgroups file:
sdnet.gardening Discussions Related to San Diego Gardening

As proposed by: Nancy Milligan (npm@netcom.com)

On-Topic Articles can range from but not limited to:
+ Gardening issues and experiences in San Diego. This could also include
landscaping talk as well.
+ These topics can range from questions and answers by users.
+ Various opinions, findings and advice by/for sdnet.gardening users.

Off-Topic Articles and subjected to possible cancellation:
+ Spam (as defined by current usenet standards, see;
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html)
+ Spam (as defined by sdnet.* policy) see;
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~wk/sdnet/spamp.html
+ Binary/image files of any kind (as they do not belong in non-binary
newsgroups).
+ MIME/HTML posts, and in particular any posting using a content-
encoding other than 7bit, 8bit, or quoted-printable. Most users reading
Usenet do not use a Web browser.
+ Make Money Fast (MMF) articles.

+ Commercial advertising is generally not allowed, except:

Where someone specially asks for a product recommendation, or a product
recommendation may be appropriate for the topic, a response for a
particular commercial product, without hype or "salesmanship" may be
given. For instance, if someone asked for a recommendation of slow-release
fertilizers, and you sell Fish-Head Plus fertilizer, you could post
that fact and some of the virtues of your fertilizer. However, limit
this to once every now and then. If you do this too frequently you'll
annoy the regular readers.

Another commercial advertising that would not be unwelcome would be
notifications of sales or special deals for sdnet.gardening readers, say
at local nurseries. Again the frequency of posting and the amount of
hype is what makes commercial postings so offensive to regular readers.
If you have a sale every week, that is far too frequent. I'd say once
every few months would be more like it. Be very, very careful not to
irritate your potential customers.

This charter permits the sdnet.* Usenet News Administrators to cancel any
article posted in the sdnet.gardening newsgroup which does not have
particular relevance to the San Diego and surrounding areas, or is in
violation of a relevant sdnet.* charter. Any San Diego area resident may
send e-mail to the posters news administrators for sdnet.gardening charter
violations.

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Bill Kronert San Diego Usenet Admin. - SDNET
wkronert@sunstroke.1sdsu.edu - remove "1" from e-mail address