Newsgroups: ott.business.ads.computing,ott.forsale.computing,ott.config Subject: [ONAG] ott.business.ads.computing charter Followup-To: poster X-Revision: $Revision: 1.0.1.1 $ Charter for ott.business.ads.computing newsgroup ================================================ Original author: Gordon Dewis Original date: Apr 21, 1997 Revised on: $Date: 1997/05/06 13:58:43 $ Revision: $Revision: 1.0.1.1 $ Background: ----------- ott.business.ads was created in response to a proposal by Joshua Gilbert and the subsequent discussions on ott.online, ott.general and by the Ottawa News Administrators Group (ONAG) during January 1996. A vote was held by ONAG members and it was decided that the group warranted creation. [ott.business.ads charter] Since the creation of ott.business.ads, there have been suggestions that a newsgroup specifically for computer hardware and software vendors and related services in the National Capital Region was required as commercial posting in ott.forsale.computing is prohibited under the ott.business.ads charter. To this end, a new newsgroup, ott.business.ads.computing, was created. Description: ------------ ott.business.ads.computing is an unmoderated newsgroup where commercial posters in ott.* may post their advertisements and similar messages of a commercial nature as relate to the sale of computer hardware and software and related services. Discussions about the advertisements or companies are not appropriate in this group. Nor are commercial postings for products which are neither hardware nor software. Private sales of computer hardware are not excluded from ott.business.ads.computing, but such messages are more appropriate to ott.forsale.computing and messages crossposted to between the groups will be cancelled. Messages posted to ott.business.ads.computing which are crossposted to other groups will be cancelled. This includes messages crossposted to other groups in the ott.business.ads hierarchy. The purpose of this group is to provide a focused forum for commercial computer-related postings, rather than a second forum in which to post commercial computer-related messages. Commercial computer-related postings may appear in ott.business.ads, however, the poster may not advertise the same products in ott.business.ads.computing. Postings by people violating this rule will be subject to cancellation. Repeat offenders may be subject to arbitrary cancellation of all postings in any ott.* group, regardless of content. Commercial messages posted to other ott.* groups will be cancelled, regardless of whether they are posted in ott.business.ads.computing as well, either by crossposting or multiposting. Definitions: ------------ Commercial messages include messages which advertise a product or service offered by a company or an individual, particularly computer hardware and software and related services. This includes messages dealing in the sale, rental, leasing, trading of computers and computer related items Should you have any questions about this charter, please email: onag@pinetree.org More information about the Ottawa News Administration Group, including complete newsgroup charters, can be found at: http://www.pinetree.org/ONAG ftp://ftp.onag.pinetree.org/ONAG $Id: ott.business.ads.computing,v 1.0.1.1 1997/05/06 13:58:43 gordon Exp $