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FAQ - (Short version) Advertising and posting polices of this moderated group
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email from me, or find it in archives on Google (search for FAQ) Rec.crafts.jewelry is a moderated, non-commercial newsgroup. Here's the basics on what's allowed here, and what's not. 1. This is a moderated newsgroup. That means that .All postings to the group are reviewed by the moderator (me) to ensure that they conform sufficiently to the group's charter. I review new messages one or more times per day, and post those that meet the requirements to the group. This introduces a time delay, which can range from a few minutes to many hours or a full day, between when you post a message, and when it then appears in the newsgroup, and therefor, a similar waiting period between when you post a question, and when any answers or replies will show up in the group. Please wait long enough after sendinga message to account for this before assuming your message has been lost or rejected. If you suspect the latter, or need help with posting to the group in general, feel free to contact me via email. For readers, actual posting to the group is done as normal. Send posts with the same news software you normally use. The details of moderation are handled by your ISP, so you need do nothing special. If you have trouble posting to the group, however, there are other options, in which case please contact me for help. 2. The basic topic of this group is the craft of jewelry, including primarily gold and silver smithing and related metalworking methods of jewelry makers, but the group's topic includes most aspects of the jewelry business and hobbyas well, not just the technical aspects of the craft. This includes business aspects, marketing questions, gemology, lapidary, beadwork, and more. Most topics of discussion or questions about jewelry and the industry are valid here. 3. This is a non-commercial group. That means you cannot advertise jewelry or other things for sale here in most cases. The intent is to prevent the group from becoming just a sales venue for people selling their jewelry, or advertising their ebay auctions, or the like, as well as to keep the group from becoming just another online catalog for one or another jewelry manufacturer or gem dealer. So for sale ads ("I've got my used rolex for sale...") or web site promotion ads ("come visit my new site where my stuff is for sale") are prohibited. Some limited advertising, or specific interest to jewelry craftspeople, can be allowed, selling things like your used tools and equipment, books, hard to find materials, or the like. Ads like this must be for direct sale through the ad, not a link to an online auction or commercial web site. They must preface their subject header with the tag "[ADVERT]" (without the quotes), and if ads are allowed, an advertiser is allowed no more than one ad per month, at the moderator's discretion. Note that in general, educational opportunities, classes, announcements of local interest groups, or similar "public service" postings are not treated as advertisements, so long as they don't become overly commercial. The principal "loophole" to advertsing is the long standing tradition of usenet that allows a poster to include a short "signature file" at the end of their posting, which may contain links to the users site, or other such information, which may indeed be commercial. But it must be clear in a post that this is merely a signature file, not the main purpose of putting the post in the group. Posts which are empty of otherwise new content, will not be approved. 4. The charter of the group specifies that all postings must be in plaintext (ascii text) only, with no binary attachments or non ascii text. That means that while you can post the URL to an image or page on the web on which aphoto or graphic is located, you cannot just attach that graphic to your posting itself. It means you must turn off HTML formatting or Rich Text formatting, or the like, when you post to this group, so that the messages are sent justin plain text. If you need to include a graphic in your posting, you may either simply tell readers who're interested, to request it from you via email off list, or you make your graphic available on the web, and post the URL. Most ISPs provide some web space along with your internet access account for a personal page or the like, and you can use this if you know how, or you can use one of several web based image hosting services that will host your images for free. Two such services are www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com, and there are others. Both are generally easy to use, and free. 5. Posters are expected to observe general standards of civil conduct inthat personal attacks and "flame wars" are not permitted. I don't like playing "censor" for what people can or cannot say, but please just don't get into big personal fights or vicious name calling. Simple enough. Argue all you like about the topics themselves, just don't take it to the personal attack level. Peter Rowe moderator rec.crafts.jewelry. |
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FAQ - (Short version) Advertising and posting polices of this moderated group
Peter W.. Rowe, wrote:
For those who'd like more detail than what follows, request the full version in email from me, or find it in archives on Google (search for FAQ) Rec.crafts.jewelry is a moderated, non-commercial newsgroup. Here's the basics on what's allowed here, and what's not. And here is my (not really, I read it some time ago and I am just passing it on) universal "Guide for posting to newsgroups". 1. If you post and pretend to be a fool, people will believe that you are a fool. Corollary: If you then post and explain that you were only pretending, nobody will change their mind. 2. The Net-Nature is very simple. Usenet is *not* dominated by the smartest people, the most interesting people, or the most learned people. It is dominated by the people who want to tell other people their opinions. To expect anything else is absurd. 3. Similarly, the topics that dominate any given newsgroup are not the most interesting, the most helpful, or the most useful. They're the most acrimonious and the most dissent-laden. How else could things possibly turn out? 4. A person who says, "Sorry, I had to point that out to you" is always telling two lies. Ditto for "Sorry, I couldn't pass this up." "I see your point but...." means the opposite. 5. When a fool posts deliberate flamebait, he has no influence over whether he/she succeeds. You do. 6. It is easy to patronize the author of the post in which you agree. It is equally as easy for the author to patronize you back. This can go on for weeks on end. Corollary: You will look clever to the people who already agree with you and like a fool to the rest of us. Second Corollary: If you post to a newsgroup to which you are new and a prominent personage patronizes you, that can also go on for weeks on end. 7. If you feel you know something funny or clever or wise, you may decide to post it here. Please keep in mind, you are the 4,000th person to do so. 8. If you hate something, there is a newsgroup where people are discussing it. Abortion, recovery, Republicans, eating meat, tattooing, worship, bondage, whatever. You will be tempted to appear on that newsgroup and point out to everyone the error of their ways. Please keep in mind that you are the 4,000th person to do so. 9. If something is particularly funny, clever, or wise, then you will be the 4,000th person *this month.* 10. The exclamation point "!" is a sentence tag which denotes emphasis. The double exclamation point "!!" is a sentence tag which denotes the writer is a self-centered fool who think his/her concerns are more important than anyone else. The triple "!!!" is an exaggeration of the double. Four or more exclamation points indicate sexual inadequacy. 11. You, personally, are a unique, exciting, vibrant, intelligent, wise, and self effacing individual with a great deal to contribute to the newsgroups you select on the Net. So is every other schmuck who posts. Get over it. 12. The demise of this newsgroup and the Net is imminent--and always will be....... 13. It's not a super-highway. It's not a fishnet. It's not a surfable ocean, a maze, a 3 dimensional space of lights, a city or a game. It's not a cocktail party an argument or a home. It *is*, what it *is*. You will never prove yourself "cool" or an "insider" by using the "hip" metaphors or slogans of your group to try to control or impress other people. This interlinked computer system of the world doesn't need names, judgments, explanations, or justification---it just *is*. The playing field is level and if you don't like it, you must not be used to equality. 14. Internet gurus on a specific topic are a dime a dozen. It is the people who don't know much who are rare. Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
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