🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 1 May 2005 02:53:38 -0400, "Rob Maxwell"
<bc_van_usenet@fastmail.ca> wrote:

>
>Newsgroup Control Policy for bc.* and van.* hierarchies.
>
>1. Proposals for new bc/van groups or removal of same should be submitted 
>to:
>bc_van_usenet@fastmail.ca.
>
>2. After any needed editing, the proposal will be posted to bc.config.
>
>3. These proposals will be posted to bc.admin.announce, a newsgroup that 
>will not accept submissions or posts, which will serve as a place to post 
>all administrative-related posts including proposals, ballots, vote results, 
>and announcement of creation or removal of newsgroups.
>
>4. After the posting of the proposal, there will be a ten-day discussion 
>period.
>
>4a. If there are significant changes, a new proposal will need to be 
>submitted.
>
>5. If there are no significant changes, a ten-day voting period will occur.
>
>6. Any proposed newsgroup that receives 50% or more of the votes in favor of 
>its creation from a minimum of ten different voters will be made within five 
>days of the end of the vote barring any significant objection to the voting 
>results.
>
>7. Removal of bc or van newsgroups shall follow the above procedure except 
>that two-thirds of the voters must approve removal and the newsgroup shall 
>not have more than an average of three posts per day over a thirty-day 
>period (a total of 90 posts).
>
>8. Only one newsgroup may be included in a proposal to create or remove.
>
>9. Final decision on the name and description of proposed new newsgroups 
>shall be of the Administrator.
>
>10. Exceptions to the above:
>
>a) Administrative newsgroups shall be made or removed at the discretion of 
>the Administrator.
>
>b) Attempts to circumvent the above procedures will result in a reversal 
>action being taken as needed.
>
>c) Patently offensive proposals; groups that serve to promote or embarrass 
>individuals, websites, companies, products, or other entities; topics of a 
>clearly national or global interest; or other potential troublesome
>newsgroups will be ignored.
>
>d) In the event of a major newsworthy occurrence in the Greater Vancouver 
>and/or British Columbian region along the order of the attack upon the World 
>Trade Center on 11 September 2001, the Administrator shall create a bc or 
>van newsgroup that shall include "current-event" in the name at their 
>discretion and remove same at a later date. This creation or removal of a 
>"current-event" shall bypass the discussion/voting procedure outlined above.
>
>11) Policy changes will be made as needed to adapt to prevailing conditions 
>in the bc.* hierarchy, van.* hierarchy, Usenet (in the greater NetNews 
>sense), the nntp protocol, or current News Administration practices at the 
>discretion of the Administrator.
>
>-END-

Yet Shaw news allows rape newsgroups, incest newsgroups, kiddie
diddler newsgroups to propagate. Be nice if the Feds did their job and
shut it down and if the victims sued them for propagating it.