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Subject: Introduction to news.announce
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Archive-name: news-announce-intro/part1
Original-author: [e-mail] (Mark Horton)
Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)
Last-change: 25 Apr 1993 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)

The news.announce hierarchy contains the seven moderated newsgroups
news.announce.important, news.announce.newgroups,
news.admin.technical, news.announce.newusers, news.answers, news.lists
and news.announce.conferences.

"news.announce.important" is a newsgroup for just what it says it is --
important announcements.  It is intended to be read by everyone on
Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe.  To post to
news.announce.important, send mail to the moderator at
"[e-mail]".  Some netnews implementations will
automatically mail to the moderator anything posted instead of
attempting to post it directly.  If the message is appropriate, it will
be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more
appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same
goal.

Discussions in news.announce.important are explicitly forbidden, and
the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from
feeling a need to unsubscribe.  Usenet administrators for each site
should make a point of reading news.announce.important.

The current policy is that news.announce.important submissions must be:

(a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers.
(b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the
    net.  The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
(c) not posted to any other newsgroup - news.announce.important by itself is
    supposed to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to
    read an announcement more than once.
(d) signed - the author should be clearly evident.
(e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature.

news.announce.newgroups exists for announcements of either the
creation or the consideration of a new newsgroup.  All calls for
votes, calls for discussions, vote results, and creation notices of
all hierarchies should be posted to news.announce.newgroups.
Submissions should be directed to [e-mail] (or to
your nearest major site).  Followups will be redirected to
news.groups.

news.admin.technical is a newsgroup for discussion about software.
policies, and the technical aspects of running Usenet news.  Postings
of a more general nature should be posted to the unmoderated group
news.admin.misc instead.

Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers.  These messages will be placed in news.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated.  This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
news.announce.newusers without missing anything new in
news.announce.important.  If you aren't familiar with the netnews
guidelines in news.announce.newusers, please read them carefully.
Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the
more than 3 million members of the net community (estimated) by
unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from
the net.  This group does not accept postings from users (although the
moderator is usually willing to entertain suggestions for edits and
additions to existing postings).

Many newsgroups have postings that are made periodically for new users
of those specific groups.  These postings are usually referred to as
FAQs, or Frequently-Asked Questions.  The postings are usually
cross-posted to the new.answers (and companion comp.answers,
sci.answers, etc.)  newsgroup for purposes of archiving and
consolidated searching.  Normally, users will not post articles here
unless they have constructed a FAQ for a particular newsgroup.

Several people make an on-going effort to collect administrative
information and interesting statistics about the news.  This
information, usually in the form of lists, is posted on a regular
basis to the news.lists newsgroup.  This allows others interested in
these topics (such as news flow, volume, valid newsgroup names, etc)
to find them all in one particular place.  Again, this is not a group
in which users will normally post, but they may find the information
in the group to be of interest.

news.announce.conference is for announcements of conference programs,
calls for papers, and things of that kind.  Submissions should be
directed to [e-mail].  Please keep Subject lines
informative; if space permits, mention the topic and location there,
and avoid acronyms unless very widely known.


    Mark Horton                         Mark Moraes
    news.announce.important moderator   news.announce.newusers moderator
    [e-mail]                   [e-mail]

     David Lawrence                      Rich Ohnemus
     news.announce.newgroups moderator   news.announce.conferences moderator
    news.lists moderator            [e-mail]
     [e-mail]

    Jonathan Kamens                Scott Hazen Mueller
    news.answers moderator            news.admin.technical moderator
    [e-mail]        [e-mail]