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                              SBAY.LINUX CHARTER
                                       
   sbay.linux is for discussion of the Linux operating system and its use
   in the South Bay Area. Articles must be related to the local area -
   otherwise use comp.os.linux.* newsgroup hierarchy instead.
   
   The term "South Bay" for purposes of the sbay.* newsgroups refers to
   Santa Clara County and vicinity in Northern/Central California,
   internationally known as Silicon Valley. The name "South Bay" comes
   from the area's position in the southern portion of the San Francisco
   Bay Area.
   
   For the Newsgroups file: sbay.linux Linux topics specific to the South
   Bay.
   
   The rest of the charter is the same for all sbay.* newsgroups. South
   Bay residents should include the entire charter when complaining to
   posters about charter violations.
   
   An article is considered local to the sbay newsgroups if it has
   something specific to Santa Clara County, California. Santa Cruz
   County is also accepted as local. Due to Silicon Valley's recently
   expanded role in the economy, other adjacent counties are accepted
   too: San Mateo, Alameda and San Benito Counties. With exceptions for
   net abuse listed below, there is no enforcement for being "non-local"
   if the article is posted from Northern or Central California, as
   defined by counties north of and including Monterey, Fresno and Mono
   Counties up to the Oregon border. However, all posters are still
   requested to respect the intended scope of these forums as being for
   and about the South Bay Area.
   
   If you post in the sbay newsgroups from outside Northern and Central
   California, your article may be cancelled by the sbay newsgroup
   coordinators. (If you dislike this, you can blame all the spammers'
   abuses since 1994.) However, if you inadvertently responded to a
   cross-posted article which you saw in another non-sbay newsgroup, the
   sbay newsgroup coordinators will not pursue the matter as a case of
   abuse. You are responsible for where you post so remember to check the
   Newsgroups header when replying. Try to avoid repeating the error.
   
     _Note that most Internet Service Providers and Backbone Providers
     have an "Acceptable Use Policy" requiring compliance with charters
     for all newsgroups that have them. You could lose your Internet
     access for deliberate violations of this or other UseNet newsgroup
     charters._
     
   This newsgroup is unmoderated for residents of the South Bay Area and
   vicinity. However, some articles do not qualify as local even if
   posted from the South Bay Area if they are forms of net abuse. The
   exceptions are
     * excessively cross-posted articles (one article posted to too many
       newsgroups at once)
     * excessively multiple-posted articles (copies of the same article
       posted lots of times in different newsgroups)
     * articles cross-posted to other regional newsgroups outside
       Northern and Central California
       
   The newsgroup is retro-moderated for non-local articles, as defined in
   the sbay.* newsgroup policies. The policies are posted separately on
   sbay.general and on WWW at http://www.sbay.org/. This charter permits
   the sbay.* newsgroup coordinators to cancel any article which is not
   at least partly specific to the South Bay Area or violates a newsgroup
   charter in any other way. Any member of the sbay.* community may send
   e-mail to the poster and/or their site's news admins for sbay.*
   charter violations. Requests for cancels should be sent to the SBAY
   CancelCritter contact address at critter@sbay.org.
   
   The following types of net abuse are severe wastes of bandwidth. This
   charter authorizes any sufficiently-experienced member of the sbay.*
   community to cancel any of these abuses on sight.
     * "Make Money Fast" (MMF) chain letters and pyramid/Ponzi schemes.
       Such schemes are Federal and California State felonies. On UseNet,
       promoting waste of bandwidth is the equivalent of a crime because
       the system would break down if such acitivty was left unchecked.
     * binaries such as uuencoding or MIME base 64 (there are no binary
       newsgroups in the sbay.* hierarchy)
     * "spew", or reposted old articles with new message IDs, can happen
       when a poorly administered site restores a backup of a news spool
       (never back up a news spool) or a misconfigured gateway to another
       network re-introduces on UseNet articles which originated there.
       
   Any article cancellations under this charter only apply to articles
   posted or cross-posted in this newsgroup. Cancel controls must state a
   reason for cancellation and provide a non-anonymous address to contact
   the poster of the cancel. It is also recommended to send e-mail to the
   poster and/or their site's news admins.


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Posting Schedule for sbay.org Information Articles
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These periodic 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    4th,18th   HOWTO: sbay Newsgroup Access
  8th,22nd  SBAY.ORG Social Events   12th,26th  SBAY.ORG Domain Park
  16th,30th SBAY Wireless Network    5th,19th   SBAY Geek Ride (cycling)
  12th,26th sbay.hams Info           6th,20th   sbay.transportation Info
  11th,25th sbay.linux Info          7th,21st   sbay.networking Info

Newsgroup charters are each posted weekly on these days of the week:
  sbay.education on Fridays          sbay.forsale on Thursdays
  sbay.general on Wednesdays         sbay.hams on Saturdays
  sbay.health on Sundays             sbay.housing on Tuesdays
  sbay.linux on Sundays              sbay.networking on Wednesdays
  sbay.news.config on Tuesdays       sbay.news.group on Mondays
  sbay.news.stats on Mondays         sbay.politics on Thursdays
  sbay.sports on Fridays             sbay.test on Saturdays
  sbay.transportation on Mondays

All of these files are also available any time from http://www.sbay.org/

About the sbay.* Newsgroups
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The sbay.* newsgroups are only for articles at least partly specific to
the South Bay Area, which is Santa Clara County, California (Silicon Valley)
and vicinity in Northern and Central California.  These are intended for
use by local residents only.  Articles from outside Northern and Central
California are violations of the newsgroup charters.  We regret that due
to years of abuse, violations are subject to cancellation and a report of
abuse to the poster's Internet Service Provider.

About sbay.org
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sbay.org is an informal association of electronic communications hobbyists
and professionals in Silicon Valley.  Among numerous volunteer activities,
our community operates the "sbay" newsgroups, a domain park (Internet
subdomain registry) and a metropolitan-area wireless network in the
South Bay/Silicon Valley area.  There are also monthly social events
including pizza get-togethers and bicycle rides, where all sorts of
technical topics in electronic communications are discussed.