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          General  discussion  that  do  not  fit  elsewhere in the dfw.*
          hierarchy
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  CHARTER

    Intended Use of dfw.general

         1. Before  posting  to  *any*  newsgroup,  you  should  read the
            articles  in  news.announce.newusers.  These articles provide
            much  insight  into  the  niceties  of  newsgroups, including
            appropriate netiquette when posting.
         2. Discussions  that  relate  to the D/FW Metropolitan area that
            don't  fit into the other newsgroups in the dfw hierarchy are
            welcome here.
         3. There  are  a  number  of  news groups (those in the dfw.jobs
            groups,   dfw.forsale   and   dfw.personals)  which  are  not
            discussion  groups. Discussions relating to articles in those
            groups are welcome here.
         4. Discussions  that  are  not  specifically  regional should be
            posted  elsewhere(e.g.  General  state-wide  issues should be
            posted to tx.general).
         5. dfw.general is NOT moderated, thus all free speech values are
            intact  within this group. This also means that no one person
            is  in  control  of  who  posts  here,  other than your local
            systems   administrator   (sysadmin/sysop).  The  sysops  are
            responsible  for  deciding  which newsgroups to carry locally
            and overseeing the newsgroups and files they choose to carry.
            There  are guidelines for posting that are highly recommended
            and are listed below.

    Articles unacceptable in dfw.general:

         1. SPAM,   Chain   letters,   MAKE.MONEY.FAST,  posts  promoting
            personal   or  commercial  web  sites  or  services  are  not
            permitted.
         2. For Sale or Wanted ads of any sort.
         3. Commercial solicitation of any content.
         4. Binaries.   This  is  not  a  binaries  group.  Do  not  post
            executables, sound files, image files, etc. in dfw.general.
         5. Any  article  over  30K, ~750 lines in length. Please provide
            links to such articles on a web or ftp site.
         6. Evangelizing, i.e., promoting any particular point of view of
            a   religious   topic.   Religious   refers   not   only   to
            faith/non-faith  in  a  higher being, but to any topic, e.g.,
            the  "best"  text  editor or programming language, subject to
            strong personal beliefs."
         7. Personal Ads
         8. Personal disputes.
         9. Quoting  someone else's entire article just to add one or two
            lines. "Trim the quoted text in your followups."
        10. No  political  posts,  or  discussions  of any nature. Please
            direct  these  to  the  appropriate political newsgroup. This
            includes  no cross-posting to or from any political motivated
            newsgroup.

   Canceling of Articles and Cross Posting:

         1. Crossposting   should   be  used  in  dfw.general  only  when
            absolutely  necessary,  and  before  a  reply  is  made to an
            ongoing discussion, the poster should check and eliminate any
            unnecessary  groups  that the thread is being cross-posted to
            and  think  twice before adding additional groups. the poster
            should   also   consider   whether   another  group  is  more
            appropriate  for the discussion as it stands now, and forward
            the  discussion  there  though the use of Follow-To: headers.
            Even  if a topic of discussion is about other areas, regional
            internet  groups  should  not be added to the discussion on a
            "FYI" or "maximum coverage" basis.
         2. No  more  then three groups should receive any article placed
            in dfw.general, including dfw.general.
         3. Unacceptable examples of crossposting to dfw.general,
              1. Any flame group.
              2. Any group unrelated to the topics under discussion.
              3. Cross-posted to more then three (3) groups.
              4. Cross-posting  to  cause  a  flame war among the various
                 groups you have posted to.
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  Article Format

         1. Articles  posted  to  dfw.general  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.general.  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.general  must  still  follow  the  criteria of
          dfw.general and be subject to these rules.
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