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- Newsgroups: ba.announce
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!pacbell.com!UB.com!zorch!scott
- From: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Subject: [Weekly post] ba.announce moderation policies [last modified: Nov 24 1992]
- Message-ID: <Bzxow8.HKD@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
- Organization: At Home; San Jose, CA USA
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:00:07 GMT
- Approved: scott@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
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-
- The newsgroup ba.announce is for the posting of announcements that
- would be of interest to the entire Bay Area Usenet Community. The
- intent is that every Usenet reader in the Bay Area should be able
- to subscribe to ba.announce without being overwhelmed by volume.
-
- Format:
-
- Postings should be short; the ideal posting would be less than 50
- lines. Please remember to format your postings for 80-column
- screens, as that is the most common screen size on the net. Also,
- please check your spelling and grammar.
-
- Please include location information in the Subject: line! Not counting
- sites in other states and countries, the Bay Area Usenet distribution is at
- least 6 hours' drive across, and longer if you take public transit.
-
- If you are announcing an event for a specific date, please include an
- Expires: header.
-
- Subject matter:
-
- Content is restricted to announcements only. Discussions are not
- appropriate material. If you are announcing a meeting for an
- organization that is not well-known, please feel free to include
- a short statement of the organization's history and purpose as a
- part of the announcement posting. Please do not send us background
- material as separate postings; it will be sent back to you.
-
- For sale/wanted, or rental ads are not appropriate material. Please post such
- ads to the proper ba.market group. Any postings of those types will be
- returned if possible, and dropped into the bit bucket if not.
-
- Announcements of seminars should be posted to ba.seminars.
-
- For-sale and for-rent advertisements should be posted to the appropriate
- ba.market group.
-
- Some examples of appropriate postings:
-
- * An announcement of a meeting of a political organization.
-
- * Party announcements or other social get-togethers.
-
- * Conference schedule announcements, e.g. Interop or Usenix, if
- it will be held in the Bay Area.
-
- * Book signings, celebrity visits (authors, Usenet figures, etc).
-
- Moderators and submissions addresses:
-
- The moderators are:
-
- scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller), primary
-
- tmiller@cisco.com (Teri Miller), backup
-
- The submission address is:
-
- ba-announce@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG.
-
-