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[dfw.flame.]
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[The charters for dfw groups are found at http://www.cirr.com/dfw/charters]

    For your newsgroups file:

   dfw.flame
          For flaming and discussion related to flaming in the coverage
          area of the dfw.* hierarchy USENET newsgroups
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  CHARTER

    Area of Coverage of dfw.flame

          There are no specific boundaries for this group. The dfw.*
          newsgroup hierarchy was designed to serve the region that
          includes but is not limited to what is commonly known as North
          Central Texas. dfw.flame roughly encompasses an area from the
          Louisiana and Oklahoma borders to Eastland TX to the west and
          Hillsboro TX to the south. This includes (with slight variances
          to accommodate local dialing areas): Wichita Falls, Archer City,
          Graham, Breckenridge, Eastland, Stephenville, Glen Rose,
          Cleburne, Hillsboro, Corsicana, Athens, Jacksonville, Henderson,
          Joaquin, and all cities in Texas north or east of the listed
          cities. This includes the Fort Worth and Dallas areas.

    Intended Use of dfw.flame

          The news group dfw.flame exists for two purposes.

         1. One, is a general flame post that would not necessarily fit
            into other dfw regional groups, all of which specifically
            exclude flaming, and harassing type messages, yet would still
            be appropriate for this regional area.
            For instance, a flame that "Joe's Junked Jalopies" treated you
            badly, or, in a more personal note, Recently I realized that
            AT&T has been billing me thirteen bucks a month for the right
            to open their mail, billing me for an international plan and
            other goodies I am billed for but don't use and never
            subscribed to. Although ATT is national, this was an attempt
            to steal from me, locally, and they refuse to refund me for
            the theft. Although *I* will take this up with the regulatory
            agencies instead of a flame, it would have been suitable
            material for dfw.flame.
         2. Second, a post regarding another online user, especially when
            a discussion in another dfw regional group was approaching
            flame status. More specifically, the purpose of dfw.flame is
            to have a place to vent frustrations, ridicule where
            appropriate, and reply, without cluttering the other groups
            with messages most people would not have an interest in
            reading. By keeping dfw.flame ready and promoted as a flame
            group, discussions in the other dfw.* groups can be
            encouraged, and should draw more users, who tend to be turned
            off by the flamers.
            The posting of libelous falsehoods and scurrilous messages
            (including posts forged to appear to be from someone else or
            some other organization), and other acts viewed as illegal in
            the State of Texas or in the United States are not permitted.
            The USA constitutional grant of free speech does not include
            the right to make Libelous and Scurrilous statements in any
            public forum or medium.

    Cross-posting guidelines for dfw.flame

          If cross posting is done, it is to be done only in the
          originating post, taking a thread *to* dfw.flame. This is done
          by posting in the original group, with followups set to
          dfw.flame, (This will be both a written advisory at the top of
          the post as well as an entry in your posting addresses. If in
          doubt, ask how to do this the first time. Then just add
          dfw.flame *ONLY* to the group list. After that, posts are *not*
          to be continued cross posted, back and forth between the two
          groups. Under no circumstances should cross posting to dfw.flame
          include a third news group, regardless of the group hierarchy.

          Example.

     Subject: dfw.general is wonderful

     Followups set to dfw.flame
     On ...... someone@somewhere wrote..
     <snipped>
     OK, "Someone", it is obvious that we cannot agree on this discussion
     , and the discussion has completely left the original subject area.
     I am posting a reply to dfw.flame. Please keep this leg of the
     discussion there.

          The above is only an example.

          In Agent you would add, "dfw.flame" in the "Followup-to" field
          in the expanded fields section. Other news readers work in a
          similar fashion. If your newsreader does not support "followups
          to", then don't cross post.

    Topics Inappropriate for posting in dfw.flame

          This group is not for flaming of entities outside of the area
          covered by the dfw.* hierarchy newsgroups, for instance,
          national political or religious figures. All normal rules of
          USENET behavior, especially threats, and trolls apply here the
          same as any other news dfw.* news group.

          The following types of net abuse are severe wastes of bandwidth.
          As many smaller sites are connected via slow dial-up links, and
          may by paying per-minute charges, this charter allows for the
          on-sight cancellation of any of the following abuses.

         1. "Make Money Fast" (MMF) chain letters and pyramid/Ponzi
            schemes. Such schemes are Federal felonies. On Usenet,
            promoting waste of bandwidth is the equivalent of a crime
            because the system would break down if such activity was left
            unchecked.
         2. Binaries, such as uuencoding or MIME base 64.
         3. MIME/HTML posts, and in particular any posting using a
            content- encoding other than 7bit, 8bit, or quoted-printable.
            Most users reading Usenet do not use a Web browser, and HTML
            is difficult or impossible to read to interpret the content
            Some posters who post HTML also include a plain text version
            of the message.This is redundant and wasteful. Please save
            HTML for the Web.
         4. "spew", the reposting of old articles with new Message-ID's.
         5. "test" messages, Please post these to a test newsgroup.
         6. Excessively multiple-posted articles.
         7. Articles cross-posted to or from any other newsgroup.
         8. Articles that do not have particular relevance to the D/FW
            Metro Area.
         9. Commercial ads, posts, or advertisements, including URL links
            to such.

          This charter permits the dfw.* Usenet News Administrators to
          cancel any article posted in the dfw.flame newsgroup which does
          not have particular relevance to the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area, or
          is in violation of a relevant dfw.* charter. Any D/FW Metro area
          resident may send e-mail to the posters news administrators for
          dfw.flame charter violations.
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  Article Format

         1. Articles posted to dfw.flame 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.flame. 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.flame
          must still follow the criteria of dfw.flame and be subject to
          these rules.
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   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. 1, 1999
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   Copyright 1999; DFW USENET cabal
   Copyright 1999; Ron Johnson