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- Path: sparky!uunet!autodesk!owen
- From: owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: A Better Year Ahead
- Message-ID: <18233@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 22:05:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.054427.18239@macc.wisc.edu> <18205@autodesk.COM> <Bzpyo7.2B8@queernet.org>
- Sender: news@Autodesk.COM
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- In article <Bzpyo7.2B8@queernet.org>, rogerk@QueerNet.ORG (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
- > In article <18219@autodesk.COM>, owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley) writes:
- > |> In article <1992Dec22.003202.26314@macc.wisc.edu>, anderson@macc.wisc.edu
- > |> (Jess Anderson) writes:
- > |> What I'm asking is if there is *any* sort of official *usenet*
- > |> recognition that we can point to when and if some site
- > |> blatantly disregards provisions of a chartered newsgroup
- > |> that has been officially voted into the soc. hierarchy?
- >
- > (a)There is no such thing as a "chartered" newsgroup. Moderated newsgroups can
- > have enforced policies; other cannot.
-
- well that answers that then !
- but there are netiquette guidlines and other conventions to usenet
- newsgroups, I was asking about policys in regard to those guidelines
- specially in the issue of the scope of the first order portion of the
- newsgroup names ( ie: soc., talk., misc.)
-
- >
- > (b) Soc.motss was not "voted" into the soc. hierarchy in the sense that soc.bi
- > was. It pre-existed soc., and was *reorganized* into it.
-
- net.motss was voted, and the reorganization into soc.motss was alo voted on,
- wasn't it ?
-
- so what happens if someone newgroups a soc. group
- without voting? is any co-ordinated action taken? by whom?
- under what authority?
-
- LUX ./. owen
-
-
- --
- D. Owen Rowley {uunet,fernwood,sun}!autodesk!owen
-
- " It will be a cold March 17th that I celebrate the imposition of
- Romes rule, on Pagan Ireland. Erin go ppphhhhhttttttt! "
-