Moderation policy for news.groups.proposals
The charter of news.groups.proposals sets the moderation policies. The overall goal is to foster "a healthy environment where ideas can be raised, discussed, and developed."
To accomplish this goal, certain submissions to the newsgroup are rejected. These include articles containing
- personal attacks
- flames
- off topic articles
- Discussion of proposals relating to other hierarchies, such as alt.* or regional hierarchies.
- Articles about "the news" or other world events.
- General discussions not relating to a specific newsgroup proposal.
- unacceptable content
- Copyright violations
- Excessive quoting
- Threats and/or advocating violence
- Personal and/or commercial advertisements, including chain letters, money-making schemes, and EMP spam.
- unacceptable formats
- HTML
- Binaries, except PGP signatures, X-Face headers, and other ancillary meta-data
- attempts to subvert the system, such as:
- Forgery or imitation of valid e-mail addresses
- Unauthorized approval headers
- Excessive morphing/nym-shifting
Crossposting
Articles can be placed in more than one group by crossposting, which is simply listing multiple groups in the Newsgroups: line. This is different than actually posting the same text to several groups. A correctly-functioning news reader will present the article to the reader only in the first group and mark it "read" in the others.
Crossposting discussion of news groups is an interesting issue. It can be helpful, but many groups find it annoying and prefer that the discussion be done only in news.groups.proposals.
Crossposting is generally discouraged, and articles crossposted to a moderated group or more than three groups (news.groups.proposals and two others) will be automatically rejected by the moderation software. If you feel that you really need to crosspost to more groups, please contact the moderation team at the group's administrative contact address, ngp-board@ngp.big-8.org.
