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>Posting Rules and Information
>You'll find this information helpful if you've never posted to a newsgroup
>before and have questions about how it all works.
>Rules for Posting via Deja News
>Posting to newsgroups via Deja News is easy and it's free -- all you have to
>do is register http://dejanews.com/rg_enter.xp !
>We have put some restrictions on our posting feature for a few reasons: we do
>not want the service to be abused by spammers
>http://dejanews.com/info/glossary.shtml#spam and we want the feature to be a
>benefit to the Usenet community, not a nuisance. Here are the rules for using
>the Deja News posting service:
> 1. You may not spam Usenet. "Spamming" means "excessive multiple posting/
> excessive crossposting http://dejanews.com/info/glossary.shtml#crosspost ".
> Do not post multiple copies of the same article. What you should do is
> choose (up to four) appropriate (on-topic) newsgroups and put them in the
> Newsgroups: header. If you want to send multiple copies of the same
> message, then use some other service, not Deja News. We keep records of
> every post transaction (and your post ends up in our database, indexed for
> the entire world to see), so we will be able to locate spammers and ask
> them (or their system administrators) to stop.
> 2. You may not post "Make Money Fast" pyramid schemes, or chain letters. These
> are not only extremely annoying to other Usenet users, but in some places
> may very well be illegal, and we'd love to help the authorities catch
> whoever does these things. Posting about MLM's (Multi-Level Marketing
> schemes) is legal but we discourage it. If you post about MLM's and we
> receive complaints, we will deny you access to our posting feature.
> 3. You may not do anything illegal. Please remember, anything illegal in "Real
> Life" <TM>, is also illegal here. For instance, if someone attempts to make
> threats or extortion attempts via our Usenet posting service, we will
> cooperate with the proper authorities to see that that person is prosecuted
> and put away.
> 4. Deja News reserves the right to archive posts made via our posting service.
> 5. Deja News reserves the right to cancel posts made via our posting service.
> 6. Please post with courtesy. Please try to post articles that are appropriate
> to the topic or charter of the given newsgroup. You should not post
> commercial ads using Deja News. Please do not try to sell phone sex,
> magazines or any other commercial product or service by posting to Usenet
> via Deja News. This normally generates only complaints, and not customers.
> However, if you want to sell personal belongings (your guitar, or your car,
> etc), you may do this by posting to the appropriate *.forsale group. If you
> post personal ads to the wrong group, you are likely to get flamed, so
> please be careful.
>Limitations of the Deja News Posting Service
>We have also limited some of the capabilities of the Deja News posting service.
>This is only so that users will really think about what they are posting, and
>consider that they are "publishing" their articles in front of a worldwide
>audience. We also want the Deja News posting service to be a credit to the
>Usenet community, and we hope that our posting service is a source of more
>Light than Heat http://dejanews.com/info/postrules.shtml#flames . That said,
>these are the current limitations we place on articles posted via Deja News:
> * Please limit the size of your posting. Our form currently supports an
> article size of 50K (51200 bytes). We do allow you to post long articles in
> multiple segments; but please do not abuse this capability.
> * You must enter a Subject: header, articles with empty Subject: headers are
> not allowed.
> * You may only crosspost http://dejanews.com/info/glossary.shtml#crosspost to
> a maximum of four newsgroups. It is natural that an article may be relevant
> to more than one newsgroup, however, if it is crossposted to every
> newsgroup on Usenet, other users will get a little steamed. To avoid having
> them complain to us, we limit the number of newsgroups in the Newsgroups:
> header to four.
> * You may not post the same article more than once.
>Using Attributed Text
>When replying to someone else's Usenet article, you may quote part of that
>article in order to make reference to it. The stuff you include in your
>article from the other person's article is called "attributed text." An
>attribution to another Usenet article begins, by convention, like this:
> In article <234$abcd@somewhere.net>,
> joe@somewhere.net wrote:
> > blah blah blah.
>The bit following the "In article" is the Message-ID of the article being
>replied to, and the author of that is acknowledged by email address. Lines of
>text of the attributed article are included by prefixing them with (usually)
>">".
>Often many levels of attribution, caused by users quoting and requoting other
>people will cause lots of ">"s to stack up.
>Using a Signature
>Articles typically end with a signature, which is just a small section of
>text which contains personal info, like your name and email address, where
>you work, maybe a disclaimer that the post doesn't represent your employer,
>or even a favorite quote. Signatures should not be too long or verbose. The
>customary maximum size is 4 lines by 80 characters. People who post with
>excessively long signatures sometimes get flamed
>http://dejanews.com/info/postrules.shtml#flames .
>What is a "flame"?
>A flame is:
> * A posting that contains more heat (abuse, nasty language) than light
> (information), usually for the purpose of showing what a complete idiot the
> flame's author is.
> * A posting that rants on and on about a particular peeve.
> * sometimes just a flame. If someone flames you, it usually reflects more on
> their maturity level, than on you. Don't let them hurt your feelings.
> * About 90% of Usenet :-).
>Flames http://dejanews.com/info/glossary.shtml#flame can sometimes be amusing,
>but really folks, anyone who's been around Usenet long enough can tell you
>they've seen their fill of flamage. If you come up with a really good one, and
>you aren't out to intentionally hurt someone, then please feel free to flame
>on. Just don't post anything that you might regret later, because in Deja News,
>your post will live forever!
>What is a "followup"?
>A followup is an article that is in reply to a previous article. It normally
>contains part of the preceding article with some commentary. When articles are
>viewed in a threaded newsreader, a followup is normally indented more than the
>previous article.
>Caveats and Disclaimers
>Have we already said that when you post to Usenet, your post is sent to a
>cooperative network of hundreds of thousands of computers and perhaps millions
>of people?
>We provide this posting service free-of-charge, and make no guarantees or
>warranties whatsoever. We will attempt to make it do what we say it should do
>(post to Usenet), but mistakes can happen. If your post gets lost or slips on a
>banana on its way to everlasting glory on the Net, well, we refuse to be held
>accountable. Please see our Policy Stuff http://dejanews.com/info/policy.shtml
>page for an even more general disclaimer.
>Home * Communities * My Deja News * Power Search * Post
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D wrote:
> http://dejanews.com/info/postrules.shtml
>> Posting Rules and Information
>> You'll find this information helpful if you've never posted to a newsgroup
>> before and have questions about how it all works.
>> Rules for Posting via Deja News
>> Posting to newsgroups via Deja News is easy and it's free -- all you have to
>> do is register http://dejanews.com/rg_enter.xp !
>> We have put some restrictions on our posting feature for a few reasons: we do
>> not want the service to be abused by spammers
>> http://dejanews.com/info/glossary.shtml#spam and we want the feature to be a
>> benefit to the Usenet community, not a nuisance. Here are the rules for using
>> the Deja News posting service:
>> 1. You may not spam Usenet. "Spamming" means "excessive multiple posting/
>> excessive crossposting http://dejanews.com/info/glossary.shtml#crosspost ".
>> Do not post multiple copies of the same article. What you should do is
>> choose (up to four) appropriate (on-topic) newsgroups and put them in the
>> Newsgroups: header. If you want to send multiple copies of the same
>> message, then use some other service, not Deja News. We keep records of
>> every post transaction (and your post ends up in our database, indexed for
>> the entire world to see), so we will be able to locate spammers and ask
>> them (or their system administrators) to stop.
>> 2. You may not post "Make Money Fast" pyramid schemes, or chain letters. These
>> are not only extremely annoying to other Usenet users, but in some places
>> may very well be illegal, and we'd love to help the authorities catch
>> whoever does these things. Posting about MLM's (Multi-Level Marketing
>> schemes) is legal but we discourage it. If you post about MLM's and we
>> receive complaints, we will deny you access to our posting feature.
>> 3. You may not do anything illegal. Please remember, anything illegal in "Real
>> Life" <TM>, is also illegal here. For instance, if someone attempts to make
>> threats or extortion attempts via our Usenet posting service, we will
>> cooperate with the proper authorities to see that that person is prosecuted
>> and put away.
>> 4. Deja News reserves the right to archive posts made via our posting service.
>> 5. Deja News reserves the right to cancel posts made via our posting service.
>> 6. Please post with courtesy. Please try to post articles that are appropriate
>> to the topic or charter of the given newsgroup. You should not post
>> commercial ads using Deja News. Please do not try to sell phone sex,
>> magazines or any other commercial product or service by posting to Usenet
>> via Deja News. This normally generates only complaints, and not customers.
>> However, if you want to sell personal belongings (your guitar, or your car,
>> etc), you may do this by posting to the appropriate *.forsale group. If you
>> post personal ads to the wrong group, you are likely to get flamed, so
>> please be careful.
>> Limitations of the Deja News Posting Service
>> We have also limited some of the capabilities of the Deja News posting service.
>> This is only so that users will really think about what they are posting, and
>> consider that they are "publishing" their articles in front of a worldwide
>> audience. We also want the Deja News posting service to be a credit to the
>> Usenet community, and we hope that our posting service is a source of more
>> Light than Heat http://dejanews.com/info/postrules.shtml#flames . That said,
>> these are the current limitations we place on articles posted via Deja News:
>> * Please limit the size of your posting. Our form currently supports an
>> article size of 50K (51200 bytes). We do allow you to post long articles in
>> multiple segments; but please do not abuse this capability.
>> * You must enter a Subject: header, articles with empty Subject: headers are
>> not allowed.
>> * You may only crosspost http://dejanews.com/info/glossary.shtml#crosspost to
>> a maximum of four newsgroups. It is natural that an article may be relevant
>> to more than one newsgroup, however, if it is crossposted to every
>> newsgroup on Usenet, other users will get a little steamed. To avoid having
>> them complain to us, we limit the number of newsgroups in the Newsgroups:
>> header to four.
>> * You may not post the same article more than once.
>> Using Attributed Text
>> When replying to someone else's Usenet article, you may quote part of that
>> article in order to make reference to it. The stuff you include in your
>> article from the other person's article is called "attributed text." An
>> attribution to another Usenet article begins, by convention, like this:
>> In article <234$abcd@somewhere.net>,
>> joe@somewhere.net wrote:
>> > blah blah blah.
>> The bit following the "In article" is the Message-ID of the article being
>> replied to, and the author of that is acknowledged by email address. Lines of
>> text of the attributed article are included by prefixing them with (usually)
>> ">".
>> Often many levels of attribution, caused by users quoting and requoting other
>> people will cause lots of ">"s to stack up.
>> Using a Signature
>> Articles typically end with a signature, which is just a small section of
>> text which contains personal info, like your name and email address, where
>> you work, maybe a disclaimer that the post doesn't represent your employer,
>> or even a favorite quote. Signatures should not be too long or verbose. The
>> customary maximum size is 4 lines by 80 characters. People who post with
>> excessively long signatures sometimes get flamed
>> http://dejanews.com/info/postrules.shtml#flames .
>> What is a "flame"?
>> A flame is:
>> * A posting that contains more heat (abuse, nasty language) than light
>> (information), usually for the purpose of showing what a complete idiot the
>> flame's author is.
>> * A posting that rants on and on about a particular peeve.
>> * sometimes just a flame. If someone flames you, it usually reflects more on
>> their maturity level, than on you. Don't let them hurt your feelings.
>> * About 90% of Usenet :-).
>> Flames http://dejanews.com/info/glossary.shtml#flame can sometimes be amusing,
>> but really folks, anyone who's been around Usenet long enough can tell you
>> they've seen their fill of flamage. If you come up with a really good one, and
>> you aren't out to intentionally hurt someone, then please feel free to flame
>> on. Just don't post anything that you might regret later, because in Deja News,
>> your post will live forever!
>> What is a "followup"?
>> A followup is an article that is in reply to a previous article. It normally
>> contains part of the preceding article with some commentary. When articles are
>> viewed in a threaded newsreader, a followup is normally indented more than the
>> previous article.
>> Caveats and Disclaimers
>> Have we already said that when you post to Usenet, your post is sent to a
>> cooperative network of hundreds of thousands of computers and perhaps millions
>> of people?
>> We provide this posting service free-of-charge, and make no guarantees or
>> warranties whatsoever. We will attempt to make it do what we say it should do
>> (post to Usenet), but mistakes can happen. If your post gets lost or slips on a
>> banana on its way to everlasting glory on the Net, well, we refuse to be held
>> accountable. Please see our Policy Stuff http://dejanews.com/info/policy.shtml
>> page for an even more general disclaimer.
>> Home * Communities * My Deja News * Power Search * Post
>> About Deja News * Ad Info * Our Advertisers
>> Copyright (c) 1995-99 Deja News, Inc. All rights reserved.
>> Conditions of use * Site privacy statement reviewed by TRUSTe
> [end quote]
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