talk.current-events

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The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 12 Sep 2006 initiated a five-day period for final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8 Management Board has decided by consensus to create the moderated group talk.current-events. For your newsgroups file: talk.current-events Major news events of worldwide interest. (Moderated) talk.current-events is a lightly-moderated newsgroup to discuss the world events of the day. Discussion should not be restricted to that which is currently being discussed in the news media; instead, journalism by the users of the group is encouraged. Discussion is also not restricted to events in the United States, or any other specific country. Copyright violations (especially reprints of news articles) are explicitly banned; repeat offenders will be blacklisted from the group. Instead, users are encouraged to just offer URLs, or short excerpts from the articles. The topics of Permanent Floating Flamewars are off topic unless they involve discussion of substantial current events. As an example, discussion of gun control is off topic unless discussion involves proposed legislation, a major crime involving guns, court challeneges to existing gun laws, or similar substantial current events. The moderation team maintains and publishes a list of groups to which crossposts are allowed (the "crossposting whitelist"); this list specifically excludes *.politics.* and other purely-political newsgroups. In the event of a major world event with long-lasting repercussions, the moderators of talk.current-events may work with the administrators of the Big-8 Hierarchies to create additional short- or long-term groups in the talk.current-events.* hierarchy, on short notice and outside of the standard newsgroup creation process - for example talk.current-events.katrina to discuss the events of August 2005. MODERATION POLICY: talk.current-events talk.current-events is a robo-moderated newsgroup. The 'bot will enforce the following policies: * Articles may be crossposted to no more than four groups, all of which must be on the crossposting whitelist (as described in the charter). * Followups must be set to no more than two groups, all of which must be on the crossposting whitelist. If followups are not set and the message is crossposted to more than two groups, then the 'bot will set followups to just talk.current-events. * Postings should be formatted within 80 characters in width (limiting your lines to 76 characters is recommended). * Postings must be in plain text. In particular no HTML or mixed text and HTML posts will be allowed, nor will binary messages (with the exception of small cryptographic signatures, such as GPG or S/MIME). * Mail address and thread blacklisting may be implemented at the discretion of the moderators; in addition, a number of anti-spam filters will be applied to all submissions. * Posting with a non-replyable/munged address is discouraged. Posters who feel that they must use a munged address are encouraged to append ".invalid" to the end of the email address, to indicate that the address is not deliverable. Rejected posts will be returned to the poster with an explanation of what problems were encountered.