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Deanie Richards (deanie@freenet.akron.oh.us) wrote:
: Does anyone know what the purpose of akr.misc is? It seems to me to be	

	The charter was just posted recently. It describes the akr.misc
purpose which is for discussing Akron and *not* for posting ads. Actually
it specifically prohibits ads.

: place where people from outa town send their messages to promote businesses
: or products.

	 We're getting this crap because people don't pay attention to the
purposes of newsgroups. They just spam them. Most of the time they don't
even read the groups they spam. They just fire up a program to do the
posting. These people assume that *.misc means that anything can be posted
there when it can't.

: There is nothing wrong with such promotion, and many might be interested

	Actually there. Ads are permitted only in certain newsgroups that
allow such posts, certain biz.*, *.marketplace, and a few alt.* groups that
were create for this purpose, like alt.make.money.fast.

: in such offers. But couldn't we have a "newsgroup" named akr.offers or
: somesuch. Or something...		

	We don't need another place for these people to post. There are
plenty of newsgroups for that purpose and if users want to read the ads
they'll read them in one of those groups.

: I am going to stop opening akr.misc til it becomes a little more Akron-ish.

	I think maybe it's time to emulate the
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.* newsgroups and mail the charter to each
person that posts here when they post the first time. I'll see about
wrting the script to do that later thisi week.

: 
: Deanie

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