From: news@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov (Unknown News Administrator) Newsgroups: news.admin.hierarchies,hsv.general Subject: ANNOUNCE: Alabama regional hierarchy Date: 3 Oct 1995 08:25:21 -0500 Organization: NASA/MSFC Message-ID: <44rdk1$2tm@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov> I do not have a definitive version of the charter for hsv.* (Huntsville, Alabama), but the checkgroups for hsv.* follows the alabama.* charter. There has been some discussion of moving hsv.* under alabama.*, or maybe moving both of them under us.*, but nothing's happening yet. X-Version-ID: @(#) bamaprop 1.2 27 Sep 1995 Announcement of New Regional Hierarchy alabama On October 8, 1995, a new regional newsgroup hierarchy will be created for discussion of topics relevant to the state of Alabama, U.S.A. There will be ten alabama.* newgroups initially, as follows: alabama.announce Announcements of interest to everyone in Alabama. (Moderated) alabama.config Usenet news configuration in the alabama hierarchy. alabama.education Education in the state of Alabama. alabama.general General discussion in the state of Alabama. alabama.jobs The Alabama job market. (Moderated) alabama.politics Politics in the state of Alabama. alabama.sports.alabama University of Alabama sports. alabama.sports.auburn Auburn University sports. alabama.sports.misc Miscellaneous Alabama sports. alabama.test News system testing in the alabama hierarchy. The name of the hierarchy and the charters for each group were discussed by the alabama-newsadmins mailing list and in hsv.general. The name "alabama" was chosen over other names such as "al" and "us.state.al" because it is unambiguous and because of the uncertain status and propagation of the "us" hierarchy. The administrative contact for the alabama-newsadmins mailing list is alabama-newsadmins-request@news.msfc.nasa.gov. The charters for the alabama.* groups are as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.announce Announcements of interest to everyone in Alabama. (Moderated) This newsgroup is intended for announcements that are expected to be of interest specifically in the state of Alabama. These announcements would typically include notices of important upcoming events and regular FAQ postings, if any. This newsgroup will be moderated by: alabama-announce@news.msfc.nasa.gov This alias expands to news@news.msfc.nasa.gov (Unknown News Administrator), who is J. Porter Clark. Unapproved posts and posts with forged approval are subject to cancellation without notice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.config Usenet news configuration in the alabama hierarchy. This newsgroup is intended for discussion of the creation of new newsgroups and the removal of existing newsgroups in the alabama hierarchy. Other Usenet news system configuration issues local to Alabama are also welcome. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.education Education in the state of Alabama. This newsgroup is intended for discussion of education in the state of Alabama. Welcome discussion topics include: * Issues that affect the quality of education in Alabama * Public perception of the educational system in Alabama * Ways of sustaining or improving the quality of education in Alabama * The future of education in the state of Alabama Unless relevant to the above topics, posts concerned with the quality of one school over another or announcements of programs at specific schools are generally discouraged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.general General discussion in the state of Alabama. This newsgroup is intended for general discussion of topics specific to the state of Alabama and regular FAQ postings for the alabama hierarchy. Topics that are relevant to other newsgroups in the alabama hierarchy should be posted to those groups and not to alabama.general. Therefore, crossposting from alabama.general to other alabama.* groups is discouraged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.jobs The Alabama job market. This newsgroup is intended for announcements of job opportunities in the state of Alabama. Resumes are also welcome, but as usual, it is quite possible that your current employer can read them. This newsgroup will be moderated by: alabama-jobs@news.msfc.nasa.gov This alias expands to chris@magellan.iquest.com (Chris Fisher) Unapproved posts and posts with forged approval are subject to cancellation without notice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.politics Politics in the state of Alabama. This newsgroup is intended for discussion of politics in and about the state of Alabama. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.sports.alabama University of Alabama sports. This newsgroup is intended for discussion of sports of all types involving the University of Alabama. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.sports.auburn Auburn University sports. This newsgroup is intended for discussion of sports of all types involving Auburn University. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.sports.misc Miscellaneous Alabama sports. This newsgroup is intended for discussion of: * Sports of all types in Alabama * Sports involving competitors from the state of Alabama EXCEPT where discussion would be appropriate to other alabama.sports.* groups. Cross-posting from this group to the other alabama.sports.* groups is discouraged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- alabama.test News system testing in the alabama hierarchy. This newsgroup is intended for testing of the news system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The guidelines for proper use of the Usenet News System as stated in the rules of netiquette posted to news.announce.newgroups are to be followed in these newsgroups. In particular, the following rules apply: * No commercial advertising. * No Excessive Multiple Posting and Excessive Cross-Posting (EMP/ECP, also known as "spam") involving these newsgroups. * No pyramid or Ponzi schemes (including chain letters). * No binary posts. Violations of these specific rules may result in article cancellation without notice even if cross-posted to groups outside the alabama hierarchy. Distribution of the alabama hierarchy is not limited to the state of Alabama and may be carried by any site in the world. The corresponding geographical distribution category that shall be used to limit distribution to the state of Alabama is "alabama". News sites desiring a feed of the alabama hierarchy should first request a feed from their network service providers. Other sites offering a limited supply of feeds of alabama.* include: Site Contact news.hiwaay.net news-admin@garply.com news.iquest.com news@news.iquest.com news.msfc.nasa.gov news@news.msfc.nasa.gov news.snsnet.net news-admin@garply.com news.traveller.com news@traveller.com news.uah.edu news@news.uah.edu New alabama.* newsgroups will be created after discussion on alabama.config once general consensus is reached. Authorized newgroup, rmgroup, and checkgroups control messages will be sent by the following parties only: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Newgroup control messages will be sent out on October 8, 1995 to create the ten newsgroups described above. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hsv.flame Abusive noise. hsv.forsale Items forsale in Huntsville, Alabama. hsv.general Items of general interest in Huntsville, Alabama. hsv.jobs Postings of jobs available and wanted. hsv.politics Political discussions. hsv.religion Discussions of, or related to, religions. hsv.tech Technical Questions and Answers. -- +--+ |oo| The Unknown News Administrator | | news@news.msfc.nasa.gov `^^'