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Original-from: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
[Most recent change: 2 July 1986 by spaf]

"mod.announce" is a newsgroup for important announcements.  It is
intended to be read by everyone on Usenet, although nobody is forced to
subscribe.  To post to mod.announce, send mail to the moderator at
"cbosgd!announce".  Some netnews implementations will automatically
mail anything posted to the moderator instead of attempting to post
it.  If the message is appropriate, it will be posted by the moderator;
if not, the moderator will suggest a more appropriate place to post it
or a better way to go about the same goal.

Discussions in mod.announce are explicitly forbidden, and the volume of
traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from feeling a need to
unsubscribe.  Usenet administrators for each site should make a point
of reading mod.announce.

Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers.  These messages will be placed in mod.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated.  This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to mod.announce.newusers
without missing anything new in mod.announce.  If you aren't familiar
with the netnews guidelines in mod.announce.newusers, please read them
carefully.  Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't
annoy the 10,000+ members of the net community by unintentionally abusing
the net, and will help you get more value from the net.

The current policy is that mod.announce submissions must be:

(a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers.
(b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the
    net.  The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
(c) not posted to any other newsgroup - mod.announce by itself is supposed
    to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to read
    an announcement more than once.
(d) signed - the author should be clearly evident.
(e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature.

The moderation mechanism is working. You would not believe how many people
have posted a followup to mod.announce, including an entire article,
followed by only "REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE."  These get mailed
to the moderator instead of being posted to the net.

	Mark Horton			Gene Spafford
	mod.announce moderator		mod.announce.newusers moderator
	cbosgd!mark			gatech!spaf