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The periodic news articles for periodic information articles the
sbay.* newsgroups has been updated with the following changes:
* The following articles are increased from 2 to 4 times per month:
     SBAY Newsgroups
     SBAY Newsgroup Policies
     sbay.forsale charter
     sbay.general charter
* sbay.* newsgroup charters will also be cross-posted to sbay.news.group
* The SBAY Wireless Network article will be cross-posted between
  sbay.general, sbay.linux and sbay.hams, with follow-ups directed
  to sbay.linux.

Other articles will remain on their previous once- or twice-monthly
posting schedules.  The updated schedule texts will read as follows:

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   This is periodic information from sbay.org.  The articles are
   posted on a staggered schedule on the days of the month shown below.
     2,9,16,23 SBAY Newsgroups          3,10,17,24 SBAY Newsgroup Policies
     1st,15th  SBAY.ORG Introduction    8th        SBAY.ORG Social Events
     12th      SBAY.ORG Domain Park     12th,26th  sbay.hams Periodic Info
     16th      SBAY Wireless Network    11th,25th  sbay.linux Periodic Info
   
   Newsgroup charters are each posted 2-4 times per month on these days:
     4,11,18,25 sbay.forsale            6,13,20,27 sbay.general
     2,16  sbay.hams         3,17  sbay.linux       5,19  sbay.news.config
     6,20  sbay.news.group   7,21  sbay.news.stats  8,22  sbay.sports
     9,23  sbay.test        14,28 sbay.waffle
   
   All of these files are also available any time from http://www.sbay.org/

   The sbay.* newsgroups are only for articles at least partly
   specific to the South Bay/Silicon Valley Area and vicinity.
   Non-local articles are violations of the newsgroup charters
   and subject to cancellation by sbay.org's newsgroup coordinators.
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Part of the reason for these changes have been because some spammers have
claimed, "I didn't see any charter."  That claim is dubious at best, since
most don't look before posting and it's easy to claim ignorance.  Something
referring to the newsgroup charters is posted in some sbay.* newsgroup
every day.  So it's time to just eliminate that excuse.  "If you didn't
see them, you didn't even look."

But who knows?  Maybe some would-be first-time spammers might be convinced
not to start at all.  That alone would make this change worth it.  Too bad
we'd never know about it if it happenned...

   Ian Kluft
   sbay.org coordinator and one of the sbay.* newsgroup coordinators