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dfw.singles

Single Folks in the Dallas/Ft Worth region.

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What is dfw.singles?

dfw.singles is a newsgroup for singles as well as married folks. It is meant for all people of Dallas/Ft. Worth, Tx. It is also open to other communities. This is a newsgroup where people can meet and communicate through the internet.

1. It is open to discussions related to romance, love, interaction among people.

2. It is open to discussions related to forming new relationships of any kind. Thus, conversations related to the above, as well as discussions to allow social meetings by and for the readers on this group.

3. It is a newsgroup in which many and all forms of communication can be found for the purpose of forming new friendships of any type.

4. dfw.singles 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.singles.

1. Topics appropriate for discussion in dfw.singles.
   1. Open to discussions related to romance, love, interaction among people.
   2. General discussion.
   3. Joking with others.
   4. Event notices and planning.
   5. When addressing someone by private e-mail always show courtesy.

2. Topics inappropriate for discussion in dfw.singles:
   1. Evangelizing
   2. Commercial or Personal solicitation
   3. Posting image or sound files
   4. Cross posting articles of discussion into non-regional groups that could result in flame wars.
   5. Personal disputes.
   6. Quoting someone else's article in the entirety, to only add one line.
   7. Posting personal ads in dfw.singles.This belongs in dfw.personals.
   8. Posting someone's private e-mail. Private e-mail is just that, private do not post other peoples private e-mail on the group.

3. Canceling of Articles and Cross Posting:

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

   1. If your article or follow up contains 7 or more newsgroups in the header.
   2. If your article is cross posted to groups inappropriately, i.e. a personal ad in the singles 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.
   5. There is no commercial advertising in this group.

Article Format

1. Articles posted to dfw.singles 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.singles. 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.singles must still follow the criteria of dfw.singles 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.

Questions in general and in reference to this Charter can be answered in the FAQ posted to the group once a week.

First written on DEC. 29, 1998