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This article is from the Rugby Union
FAQ, by roelofs@f2s.com (Mees Roelofs) with numerous
contributions by others.
1.5 How to post into rec.sport.rugby.union
If you regularly use newsgroups on Usenet you should have no problems
posting to the group. If you are unfamiliar with Usenet then please read
the appropriate documentation for more information. The FAQ Consortium
offers a series of Usenet Primers on http://www.faqs.org/usenet. If this
does not make things clear, the group news.newusers.questions is frequented
by experienced Usenet users who offer help and suggestions on netiquette.
Its official homepage (http://vancouver-webpages.com/nnq) is an excellent
starting place when you're new on Usenet.
Rec.sport.rugby.union is a non-binaries newsgroup. Posting attachments,
other than pgp-encrypted signatures, is not allowed and could lead to
sanctions imposed upon the offender. If you want to
share binaries, upload them to your website or post them into a binaries
newsgroup like alt.binaries.pictures.sports, then post a pointer into RSRU.
Make sure your newsreader is set not to post messages as html into the
group, as this will annoy many subscribers not using Netscape or Outlook.
Promoting anything related to Rugby Union is OK, but please be moderate in
your posting frequency. There is no need at all to tell us about your Rugby
tournament three times a week. Make sure you post your message only once
(it might take some time for your message to appear on the news-server).
Don't post test-messages into rec.sport.rugby.union and use misc.test
instead. That group is "read" by several computers all over the world that
will send you e-mail to confirm your post was successful.
The nature of this newsgroup means that people are going to have strong
opinions about various topics. Reaction to these opinions is the entire
lifeblood of this newsgroup. However, postings that merely tell someone
that he is a "@#%$er" are not postings that refer to Rugby Union and
therefore inappropriate for rec.sport.rugby.union. In other words: if your
posting is a flame about Rugby Union, fine, it belongs here. A flame about
a person does not.
And talking about flames: there are always going to be a few idiots in the
newsgroup, abusing everybody and everything, refusing to have a decent
discussion. This is not the place to give a personal list of RSRU-idiots,
but the advise is: be the smarter of the two and just ignore or killfile
the tosser instead of starting up a needless flamewar. The general rule in
any newsgroup: self-censorship would be *APPRECIATED*.
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