Re: Jeep thing or sheep thing? NG CHARTER TIME!
 

This thread is cross posted all over the place and now has become a
nuisance thread...

One of the groups cross posted to actually has a Charter!

Most ISP's frown on people intentionally breaking a news group's Charter
with off topic or inflammatory posts.

Please cut rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys out of your cross posts.

Not being a net cop, just informing folks that not 'all' newsgroups are
a 'free for all'.

Not even telling anyone to complain to the antagonists' ISP's...

The RAMJ+W charter is posted here:

ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announc...rs.jeep+willys

Here is the Charter text quoted:

RATIONALE: rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys

The discussion of Jeep 4 wheel drive vehicles began on the offroad
mailing list as well as on the Usenet group rec.autos.4x4. As the
offroad mailing list grew in size, the Jeep-L listserver was set up to
discuss topics specifically to Jeep and Willys vehicles.

At this time there are more that 50 articles sent to the Jeep
listserver, as well as > 50 articles being sent on the offroad server
daily. The volume on the usenet group rec.autos.4x4 exceeds 125
articles daily.

It has been suggested that a new Usenet group be created to take the
load off of the listservers as well as limit the articles in the
rec.autos.4x4 newsgroup.

CHARTER: rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys

The unmoderated newsgroup rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys is to be used
for discussions, announcements, expression of opinions, and questions
about Jeep (Trade Mark) and Willys vehicles. It also serves as a
medium for those interested in sharing and exchanging their
experience. It is also meant to be a forum for buying and selling
parts by non-commercial vendors.

Some things that could be discussed....

-Jeep/Willys history
-repairs and modifications
-parts exchange
-technical information
-4x4 driving experiences
-vehicle restoration
-new vehicle evaluations

Some things that shouldn't be discussed....

-4 wheel drive vehicles made by
other manufacturers
-commercial posts

The articles sent to the Jeep listserver will be cross-posted to Usenet
but not vise versa.

END CHARTER.

End quote.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Re: Jeep thing or sheep thing? NG CHARTER TIME!
 

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Re: Jeep thing or sheep thing? NG CHARTER TIME!
 

Can't you turn the volume down or unplug your speakers?
"Phil Sharkey" <phsharkey@netscape.net> wrote in message news:3EA0E300.2050302@netscape.net...
HOW SO??? There are many of us who really have not interest in the raving of the maniacs that are posting regularly to this thread, but we are interested in the normal posting to rec.autos.whatever. This thread has lost all relation to the subject areas concerned and, as has been pointed out, is in violation of some newsgroup charters. If it continues (no problem with keeping it up, just take it to somewhere appropriate like alt.religion.christian.charismatic, or perhaps alt.religion.barfing-yak) I assure you that one of use WILL CONTACT YOUR ISP and get you shut off the net period!

Best wishes,

Phil Sharkey

Snubis wrote:

On Fri 18 Jul 2003 08:00:30p, Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in
news:3F188A1E.3AB1BBB4@sympatico.ca:

This thread is cross posted all over the place and now has become a
nuisance thread...

How so?

Re: Jeep thing or sheep thing? NG CHARTER TIME!
 

Phil Sharkey <phsharkey@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<3EA0E300.2050302@netscape.net>...

> HOW SO??? There are many of us who really have not interest in the
> raving of the maniacs that are posting regularly to this thread, but we
> are interested in the normal posting to rec.autos.whatever. This thread
> has lost all relation to the subject areas concerned and, as has been
> pointed out, is in violation of some newsgroup charters. If it
> continues (no problem with keeping it up, just take it to somewhere
> appropriate like alt.religion.christian.charismatic, or perhaps
> alt.religion.barfing-yak) I assure you that one of use WILL CONTACT YOUR
> ISP and get you shut off the net period!

Then don't read the ------- thread. Damn, how hard is that, top posting monkey?

Re: Jeep thing or sheep thing? NG CHARTER TIME!
 

"Dingleberry" <dingleberry@subdimension.com> wrote in message
news:377dfa5a.0307190539.2ebae0c@posting.google.co m...
>
> Then don't read the ------- thread. Damn, how hard is that, top posting
monkey?

Oh God, now we got a NEW thread that's centered on discussing the OLD
thread.

Time honored advice is if you don't like something then go elsewhere. None
of the
Jeep/Sheep thread participants are going to alter their behavior based on
what
anyone says, so complaining about it just makes you look like a Usenet
newbie.

Usenet has had hundreds, if not thousands, of "threads that never die" and
you know
something, all those threads eventually died. This one will too. In the
meantime,
just don't read it. And if you want to do something constructive, post
about cars.
If enough people do that, then the Jeep/Sheep thing will get lost in the
shuffle.
The fact that you didn't shows that you also don't have anything auto
related to
talk about either right now, and why do you think the Jeep/Sheep thread has
gone on
as long as it has?

Ted