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On Jun 10, 6:17 pm, Mark Roberts <babcast-propo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For your newsgroups file:
> ba.broadcast.moderated          Bay Area TV/Radio issues.  (Moderated)
>
> From the original 1992 ba.broadcast charter by Eliot Lear
> <l...@yeager.corp.sgi.com>:
>
> "This group is here for discussions, comments and program reminders about
> broadcast media in the San Francisco Bay Area, both radio and
> television.  It also includes cable systems and TVRO/BCRO in the SF Bay
> Area.  It does not include scanner, ham radio or other action here in
> the SF Bay Area; these may be addressed in another newsgroup at another
> time.  Issues of national interest should be posted to one of the groups
> in rec.arts.tv or rec.radio."
>
> Proposed 2009 updates to original ba.broadcast charter for
> ba.broadcast.moderated:
>
> The purpose of the newsgroup is to discuss the practice of broadcasting,
> including programming, sales and management, engineering, broadcast
> technology, and emerging trends and technologies in broadcasting and
> related media.
>
> This group is intended as a moderated alternative to the existing
> newsgroup ba.broadcast.  Moderation will be utilized to enforce civil
> tone and on-topic content, including rejection of inappropriate
> articles, and closing of existing threads if they become sufficiently
> uncivil or off-topic.  Uncivil tone includes insults, name-calling, and
> other ad hominem attacks.  Off-topic content includes that not
> reasonably related to the practice of broadcasting in the Bay Area.  For
> example, articles that discuss how a radio host runs his or her show
> would be considered on-topic.  Articles that are entirely about the
> contents of radio or TV shows (except in those instances where the
> subject matter is actually about radio or TV) would be considered
> off-topic.  Such articles should instead be submitted to
> alternative forums.
>
> In addition, the following are prohibited:
>
>  * Chain letters.
>  * Posts in HTML.
>  * SPAM.
>  * Binaries, apart from PGP signatures, X-Face headers, and other
>    ancillary article meta-data.
>  * Forgery of valid e-mail addresses.
>  * Excessive morphing/nym-shifting.
>  * Copyright violations.  Pointers to news articles, blogs, etc. on
>    this topic are welcome but are required to comply with fair use
>    standards.
>  * Personal attacks and flames, as defined by the moderation team.
>  * Links to "objectionable" web content, including pornographic sites,
>    sites encouraging illegal activities, or sites deemed unacceptable
>    by the moderation team.  The moderation team will cursorily check
>    the contents of specific links to confirm on-topic content, but
>    acceptance for posting does not imply endorsement or approval of
>    the entire present or future contents of that web site.
>  * Discussion of moderation decisions.  See below for information on
>    appealing moderator action.
>
> Implementation and management of this new newsgroup:
>
> If approved by the readership, the new newsgroup will be created by a
> standard, PGP-signed, Usenet newgroup control message sent by the
> Bay-Area Managed Hierarchy (ba.*) Administrator, Ron Escheverri:
>
> http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/index.py?see=BA
>
> Usenet sites that accept such control messages automatically will create
> the newsgroup immediately.  Readers at other sites are requested to ask
> their local administrators to create the new newsgroup manually after
> the newgroup control message is posted.  The moderation team will be
> available to assist with this.
>
> In order to minimize duplication of articles, and encourage wider
> propagation of the new moderated newsgroup, simultaneous crossposting
> between ba.broadcast and ba.broadcast.moderated will be encouraged.
>
> Participation in this simultaneous crossposting scheme is completely
> voluntary.  Posters of initial articles in threads will make the
> voluntary choice to add ba.broadcast.moderated and one other unmoderated
> newsgroup to the Newsgroups line when posting.  Those following up to
> these crossposted threads will make a voluntary choice whether to keep
> ba.broadcast.moderated or any other newsgroup on the Newsgroups line, or
> remove them.  Followups may be directed by default to any subset of the
> newsgroups on the Newsgroups line (or via E-mail to "poster") by
> specifying them on an appropriate Followup-To line.  In short, the
> readers will control what they post, where they post it, and what
> default destinations they want for any followups.  This proposed
> crossposting scheme does not change any of these long-standing features
> of Usenet and newsreader software.
>
> The ba.broadcast.moderated moderation team will use the Secure,
> Team-Based Usenet Moderation Program (STUMP) to manage the newsgroup:
>
> http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump/
>
> To reduce the risks of technical problems and delayed or lost articles
> during this proposed newsgroup's startup, the moderation team will set
> up initial moderation services at Public-Access Internet and Unix, New
> York City (Panix):
>
> http://www.panix.com
>
> for the cost of $100/year.  Panix already hosts several other Usenet
> newsgroup moderation teams running STUMP.  Members of the consultation
> team below will assist with this initial installation.
>
> Services in the Bay area were evaluated, but the team felt that they
> could not be stood up quickly enough, offer necessary technical features
> such as installed software tools and web site hosting like Panix, be
> cost-competitive with Panix, be as reliable as Panix, or offer technical
> support as responsive as Panix.  Starting up at Panix for the first year
> will give us 12 months of breathing room, and a reliable backup, while
> we continue to seek out and evaluate Bay-area alternatives for
> moderation software hosting.  Further suggestions about reliable
> Unix-shell Internet account services in the Bay area that could meet our
> technical requirements and budget would be welcome.
>
> The STUMP robot (or "'bot") will scan all submitted posts.  Each post
> will be either automatically approved, rejected, or sent to the
> moderators for manual review.  The moderator 'bot will enforce the
> following guidelines:
>
>  * Postings must be in plain text. In particular no HTML or mixed text
>    and HTML posts will be allowed.  Messages that are
>    multipart/alternative will be automatically filtered to pass just
>    the text/plain version to the newsgroup.
>
>  * No binary postings of any sort will be accepted.  Exceptions will be
>    made for cryptographic signatures and such.
>
>  * Messages must not continue a thread that has been "closed" by the
>    moderators.
>
> Individual posters may be temporarily banned for consistently violating
> the group charter.  Posters who feel that their posts have been unfairly
> rejected or banned, either for specific content or by a specific
> moderator, may appeal the decision.  They may do so by writing the
> moderation team at the Administrative Contact address below.  The
> moderation team will discuss and vote on the appeal and respond within
> 14 days if the appeal is successful.  The moderation team will also
> reply within 14 days to unsuccessful submitters of any appeal that is
> on-topic, reasoned, civilly stated, and is not substantially an attempt
> to revisit the subject matter and arguments of a previous unsuccessful
> appeal.
>
> Multiple temporary bans, attempting to circumvent the ban, or abuse of
> the appeal system may result in a permanent ban.
>
> Initial Moderation Team:
>
> Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com>
> Mark Roberts <babc...@cosmos-monitor.com>
> John Higdon  <hi...@kome.com>
>
> Temporary Volunteer Moderators:
>
> (These temporary volunteers have agreed to serve for the first 6-12
> months of the newsgroup's life, during which time a list of pre-approved
> or "white-listed" users will be built based on approved submissions, and
> additional moderators will be recruited from the Bay-Area broadcast
> community.)
>
> Steve Bonine <s...@pobox.com> (Moderator of news.groups.proposals)
> Kathy Morgan <kmor...@aptalaska.net> (Co-Chair of Big-8 Board)
>
> Consultants:
>
> Paul W. Schleck <pschl...@novia.net>
> Phil Kane       <phil.k...@nov.shmovz.ka.pop>
>
> Article Submissions:      ba-broadcast-modera...@panix.com
> Administrative Contact:   ba-broadcast-moderated-requ...@panix.com
>
> Proponent:
>
> Mark Roberts <babc...@cosmos-monitor.com>
>
> Change History:
>
> 2009-05-30     1st RFD
> 2009-06-10     Posted to ba.broadcast and ba.config
>
> --
> Mark Roberts

yay!!!!