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dfw.personals
Personal ads in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metro Area (local only)

CHARTER

What is dfw.personals?

dfw.personals is a non-moderated newsgroup for posting personal advertisements in the Dallas / Ft. Worth Area

*dfw.personals is NOT moderated, thus all free speech values are intact within this group. This also means that no one person is in control of who posts here, other than your local systems administrator (sysadmin/sysop). The sysops are responsible for deciding which newsgroups to carry locally and over seeing the newsgroups and files they choose to carry. There are general guide lines for posting that are highly recommended and are listed below.

Guidelines for posting to dfw.personals.

  1. Topics appropriate for posting in dfw.personals.

    1. Articles posted in dfw.personals should be personal announcements, not recurring advertisements. Recurring ads should be on web pages - then make a one-time announcement about the location of the page.

    2. Personal advertisements, should be posted no more then once a week.

  2. Topics inappropriate for in dfw.personals:

      * Note that most Internet Service Providers and Network Service Providers have an Acceptable Use Policy that requires users to comply with newsgroup charters. Violation of this charter may result in consequences up to and including the loss of your Internet access for the violation of this or any other Usenet newsgroup or hierarchy charter.

      This hierarchy is unmoderated for residents of the D/FW Metro area, However, some articles do not qualify as local even when posted from the D/FW Metro Area. The exceptions are:

    1. Excessively cross-posted articles,
    2. Excessively multiple-posted articles,
    3. Articles cross-posted to other regional newsgroups outside of D/FW, and
    4. Articles that do not have particular relevance to the D/FW Metro Area.
    5. commercial ads, posts, advertisements.

    This charter permits the dfw.* Usenet News Administrators to cancel any article posted in the dfw.personals newsgroup which does not have particular relevance to the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area, or is in violation of a relevant dfw.* charter. Any D/FW Metro area resident may send e-mail to the poster and/or their site's news administrators for dfw.personals charter violations.

    The following types of net abuse are severe wastes of bandwidth. As many smaller sites are connected via slow dial-up links, and may be paying per-minute charges, this charter allows for the on-sight cancellation of any of the following abuses:

    1. "Make Money Fast" (MMF) chain letters and pyramid/Ponzi schemes.

    2. Binaries, such as uuencoding or MIME base 64. An exception is made for a PGP digital signature of a clear-text message, and further exceptions may be made for other digital signature technologies that are developed.

    3. 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, and HTML is difficult or impossible to read to interpret the content. Some posters who post HTML also include a plain-text version of the message. This is redundant and wasteful. Please save HTML for the Web.

    4. "spew", the reposting of old articles with new Message-ID's.

    5. "test" messages, please use the correct test groups.

    6. commercial ads, posts, advertisements.

  3. Canceling of Articles and Cross Posting:

      Article or follow-up can/will be canceled under the following conditions:

    1. If your article or follow up contains 4 or more newsgroups in the header.

    2. If your article is cross posted to groups inappropriately, i.e. a personal ad in the discussion group.

    3. Your article or follow up is cross posted to cause a flame war among the various groups you have posted to.

    4. Binaries by standard Usenet policy belong in binary groups. Please do not post binaries.

Article Format

  1. Articles posted to dfw.personals MUST be flat-ASCII. This means:
    1. No Binary postings, uuencoded or base64.
    2. No MIME encoded messages. Posts SHOULD be readable by the simplest text-only newsreader.
    3. No HTML, although HTML-like emoticons are acceptable.
    4. No characters with a value greater than 127 in any part of the post.

  2. Posts SHOULD be shorter than 30K in size. Longer items SHOULD be made available for FTP or HTTP download and a pointer to that file posted.

  3. Posts MUST contain a valid From address, unless the ".invalid" domain is used (see RFC 1036). Spam blocks are acceptable. By definition USENET newsgroups are a broadcast medium. If you have a post that needs to be anonymous, it is not a valid topic for dfw.personals. Post this material elsewhere.

  4. ROT13 encoding SHOULD NOT be used on any field in the headers. Nor should any attempts, except minimal spam blocks, be made to obscure the origins of the posting.

  5. Posts MUST contain a "Abuse-Reports-To:" or "X-Complaints-To:" header with a valid email address. When RFC1036 is updated, this line SHOULD be adjusted to comply with the latest specifications. Adding or replacing this header is the responsibility of the news server where the article was injected.

Failing to follow the above formatting requirements could result in an article being canceled instantly and without warning by an authorized moderation device (human or otherwise) for the group in question. Articles cross-posted to other groups and dfw.personals must still follow the criteria of dfw.personals and be subject to these rules.

Ending Statement.

Questions can be posted to the group if you are just unsure and want to know before doing something.

First written on DEC. 31, 1998
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Copyright 1998; D Vondrasek
Copyright 1999; DFW USENET cabal