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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