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[dfw.personals.]
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   dfw.personals
          Personal ads in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metro Area (local only)
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  CHARTER

    What is dfw.personals?

          dfw.personals is a non-moderated newsgroup for posting personal
          advertisements in the Dallas / Ft. Worth Area

          *dfw.personals 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 over seeing the
          newsgroups and files they choose to carry. There are general
          guide lines for posting that are highly recommended and are
          listed below.

    Guidelines for posting to dfw.personals.

         1. Topics appropriate for posting in dfw.personals.
              1. Articles posted in dfw.personals should be personal
                 announcements, not recurring advertisements. Recurring
                 ads should be on web pages - then make a one-time
                 announcement about the location of the page.
              2. Personal advertisements, should be posted no more then
                 once a week.
         2. Topics inappropriate for in dfw.personals:
                 * Note that most Internet Service Providers and Network
                 Service Providers have an Acceptable Use Policy that
                 requires users to comply with newsgroup charters.
                 Violation of this charter may result in consequences up
                 to and including the loss of your Internet access for the
                 violation of this or any other Usenet newsgroup or
                 hierarchy charter.
                 This hierarchy is unmoderated for residents of the D/FW
                 Metro area, However, some articles do not qualify as
                 local even when posted from the D/FW Metro Area. The
                 exceptions are:
              1. Excessively cross-posted articles,
              2. Excessively multiple-posted articles,
              3. Articles cross-posted to other regional newsgroups
                 outside of D/FW, and
              4. Articles that do not have particular relevance to the
                 D/FW Metro Area.
              5. commercial ads, posts, advertisements.
            This charter permits the dfw.* Usenet News Administrators to
            cancel any article posted in the dfw.personals 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 poster and/or their
            site's news administrators for dfw.personals charter
            violations.
            The following types of net abuse are severe wastes of
            bandwidth. As many smaller sites are connected via slow
            dial-up links, and may be 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.
              2. Binaries, such as uuencoding or MIME base 64. An
                 exception is made for a PGP digital signature of a
                 clear-text message, and further exceptions may be made
                 for other digital signature technologies that are
                 developed.
              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 use the correct test groups.
              6. commercial ads, posts, advertisements.
         3. Canceling of Articles and Cross Posting:
             Article or follow-up can/will be canceled under the following
                 conditions:
              1. If your article or follow up contains 4 or more
                 newsgroups in the header.
              2. If your article is cross posted to groups
                 inappropriately, i.e. a personal ad in the discussion
                 group.
              3. Your article or follow up is cross posted to cause a
                 flame war among the various groups you have posted to.
              4. Binaries by standard Usenet policy belong in binary
                 groups. Please do not post binaries.
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  Article Format

         1. Articles posted to dfw.personals 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.personals. 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.personals must still follow the criteria of dfw.personals
          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.

   First written on DEC. 31, 1998
   $Id: dfw.personals.html,v 1.9 1999/10/17 20:03:25 eric Stable $
   Copyright 1998; D Vondrasek
   Copyright 1999; DFW USENET cabal