Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.announce,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: rec.games.roguelike.announce Posting Guidelines Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 07:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The Eyrie Lines: 73 Approved: rgra-request@eyrie.org Expires: 5 Jun 2004 07:00:03 -0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: windlord.stanford.edu X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1083394803 17799 171.64.19.147 (1 May 2004 07:00:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu rec.games.roguelike.announce:860 rec.answers:86856 news.answers:270649 Last-modified: 2002-06-12 (revision 1.0) Posted-by: postfaq 1.12 (Perl 5.8.3) Archive-name: games/roguelike/announce URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/rgra.html Posting-frequency: monthly rec.games.roguelike.announce is a moderated newsgroup for informational posts and announcements about any roguelike game, including (but not limited to) Rogue, Nethack, Moria, Angband, and Adom. Since it is a moderated group, all postings will be sent to a moderator for approval before posting; this means that posts won't show up immediately after you post them. Please allow a day or two for your post to show up. The charter for the group is: | rec.games.roguelike.announce is a forum for postings of FAQ lists, | announcements of new patches and versions of existing games, postings of | small "official" patches, and announcements of new rogue-style | games. Every posting to this group would be cross-posted to the most | appropriate other rec.games.roguelike group, and follows-up would be | directed to that group. The moderator could, at his/her discretion, | change the subject line of postings (esp. to add the word [SPOILERS] | where appropriate). Announcements of new ftp or web sites related to roguelike games are also appropriate and welcome. In these days of ubiquitous ftp and web access, pointers to where patches can be retrieved from are probably better than posting actual patches. Most posts to rec.games.roguelike.announce will be crossposted to two newsgroups, it and the other most appropriate group in the rec.games.roguelike.* hierarchy. Followups will be directed to that other group as mentioned in the charter. Please choose your crossposting appropriately to save work for the moderator. Any post containing spoilers should note that in the subject header with a tag of "[SPOILERS]". Please also try to ensure that no spoilers occur in the first screen of text and that the body of the article also warns about spoilers. The moderator will try to catch unmarked spoilers and mark them, but may not be able to catch everything; please be careful not to accidentally spoil a game for someone else. All postings to rec.games.roguelike.announce (except for obvious spam) will either be approved or will receive a response explaining why they were not approved. Note, however, that if you munge your e-mail address in a way that the moderator cannot decipher it, there may be no way for the response to reach you. If you post to the group and neither receive a response nor see your post show up within about three days, please contact the moderator to see if there's a problem. It's possible that your site doesn't have the group correctly configured. Also from the charter: | The moderator will at all times be free to appoint a backup-moderator | and/or a replacement if he or she must leave the post. Such an | appointment must be announced on rec.games.roguelike.announce. If it | becomes necessary to replace the moderator, this could be done with a | public vote, announced on news.announce.newgroups (and crossposted to | all the rec.games.roguelike groups). A two-thirds vote would be | necessary to replace the moderator. [It is possible that the moderator | of news.announce.newgroups, group-advice, and such people will come up | with an "official" way to replace a moderator; in such a case, their | approved method would take precedence over this one.] The current moderator of this group is Russ Allbery . The contact address for the group, to which any problem reports or questions should be sent, is rgra-request@eyrie.org. If you are having problems posting directly to the group, you can instead e-mail your post to the submission address at rgra@eyrie.org. If you are maintaining a FAQ for any group in the rec.games.roguelike.* hierarchy and would like to get pre-approval for posting it to rec.games.roguelike.announce, please contact the moderator.