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Article #324can.rec.boating autoposting stops
From: Pat Drummond
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:53
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:53
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Someone noticed that can.rec.boating Charter/FAQ that used to be posted every 2 weeks or so, has not been posted since November. Does anyone know why? I seem to recall, it was set up several years ago by Chris Lewis. It's been very successful in keep the S/N within reason. Re: FS: deal only last this week end "D. J. Blackwood" wrote: > > Actually, it appears that the charter isn't being posted regularly. The > last posting I can find is dated November 23, 2001. Which would make it > somewhat irregular. I would recommend automating the posting of the > charter at least once a month, perhaps even more often. Yes, I know the > charter is also available on the National Capital FreeNet but that's not > exactly intuitive for someone not in the National Capital Region reading > a Canada-wide newsgroup. Besides, it shouldn't be necessary to surf the > web looking for a news group charter. > > As much as I hate commercial advertising in newsgroups, and I do boycott > those who do it, its tough to justify a crack down on those who don't > know any better through lack of access to the charter. > > Dave > > "Pat Drummond" <xx995@freenet.carleton.ca> wrote in message > news:3C5E0CD8.E492600A@ncf.ca... > > Advertising will kill a newsgroup faster than a flame war, > > so please read the charter/faq that is posted regularly. It > > explains what the group is for, etc. There are other places > > you can advertise online if you check around. > > -- > > Pat Drummond > > Boating in Canada http://www.ncf.ca/boating
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa33e,c915ac0b7bbafb63,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfa33e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-15 13:55:05 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!hub.org!hub.org!news.onramp.ca!freenet-news!not-for-mail From: xx995@freenet.carleton.ca (Pat Drummond) Newsgroups: can.config Subject: can.rec.boating autoposting stops Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:53:13 -0500 Organization: PDQ Web Design Lines: 34 Sender: xx995@freenet.carleton.ca (Pat Drummond) Message-ID: <3C6D8349.8DD53DB1@ncf.ca> References: <r6U68.10076$l5.279456@read2.cgocable.net> <3C5E0CD8.E492600A@ncf.ca> <5kja8.146782$I8.30501631@news4.rdc1.on.home.com> Reply-To: pat@ncf.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: p50t2.std.dialup.ncf.carleton.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: freenet9.carleton.ca 1013809855 9618 134.117.137.145 (15 Feb 2002 21:50:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: complaints@ncf.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Feb 2002 21:50:55 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US X-Given-From: Pat Drummond <pat@ncf.ca>