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NETIQUETTE and POSTING RULES for the Turkish newsgroups (ie. the FAQ)
v1.05b, 21-Feb-2007, Maintained by "Baba-Bey the Turk"
Latest Changes:
- none
CONTENT:
- Section A: The Rules
- Section B: Violations & Abuse
- Section C: Tools and Links
- Section D: Misc Notes
A) THE RULES
0) Applicability:
These rules apply to all unmoderated Turkish newsgroups on the Usenet,
especially those in the soc.culture.turkish, alt.culture.turkish, and tr hierarchy.
1) You are required to follow the Newsgroups Etiquette at
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
See also:
http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
2) The topic of the Turkish newsgroups is TURKEY (aka TÜRKIYE or T.C. or TR) :
Developments in/around/about Turkey, Turkish and Turkic culture, politics, history etc.
(FYI: Greeks, Armenians and Kurds are advised to go to their own newsgroup;
see the newsgroups list, for example:
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.armenian
soc.culture.kurdish
alt.culture.turkish.history
soc.history
...
3) These newsgroups are unmoderated international newsgroups.
Everybody can participate.
Allowed languages are Turkish and English ONLY!
Citations from other languages, if necessary, are OK, but then with translation.
4) Posting is a privilege, not a right!
Know the rules of your News Service Provider, and of your ISP:
You have a Service Agreement with your News Service Provider, and with your ISP.
Usually it's called "Terms Of Use" (TOU), "Terms Of Service" (TOS),
"Acceptable Use Policy" (AUP), or simply "Service Agreement" (SA).
You have to know and follow these rules very strictly! This is very important!
See the web site of your news provider.
5) All participants are asked to post only "qualified" and informative
messages which are worth to be read by the audiance and worth
to be stored in the archive.
6) Posting of articles from other sources (books, news articles etc.):
We had many fabricated and manipulated postings of news articles and
forged citations (aka pure lies) in the past from some Armenian propagandists.
All such postings MUST have at least
- a DIRECT link to the ORIGINAL article,
- full credit to the ORIGINAL copyright owner,
- full credit to the author,
- publication date of the ORIGINAL article.
So we can quickly verify whether the article was manipulated.
And, mostly it suffices to post just a link to the original article.
Citations from books must have Author, Title, ISBN and page number.
7) Propaganda messages (for example from the Greek/Armenian/Anti-Islam propaganda machinery):
Such messages are FORBIDDEN here!
Remember: the Usenet is a discussion platform with its own rules;
it is not a lawless platform for spreading hate propaganda.
Spam, Trash, Garbage, Troll, Childish messages, messages with forged quotes,
and messages who impersonate others:
Such messages are FORBIDDEN here!
9) Obscene, Defamotary, Offending, Threatening, Racistic, Discriminatory messages:
Such messages are FORBIDDEN here!
10) Off-Topic messages:
All messages must be on-topic (ie. within the theme of the Subject line).
If necessary then simply open a new thread with an appropriate Subject line
and invite the others to continue the discussion under the new topic.
11) Messages should be well formatted.
Max line length should be ~70 to 130 chars.
Use blank lines to split the text into easily readable portions.
12) Messages should not be too long.
The purpose of an article should be to inform and to invite others
to discuss the topic. Long texts are simply hard to read.
13) Messages must be in Text format, not in HTML format!
14) Optional: For Turkish characters you can use encoding "Turkish-ISO" (codepage ISO-8859-9)
FYI: The Turkish character set is a superset of the ASCII character table.
It includes also all English, German, French, Italian characters. Therefore regular posters
should use only "Turkish-ISO" as it displays also the other characters correctly;
ie. by using ISO-8859-9 you no longer need to switch to other western codepages.
B) VIOLATIONS / ABUSE REPORTS:
Violations of these rules will be reported to the Abuse Department of your
News Service Provider using the standard procedure of an "Abuse Report".
Everybody can do this reporting.
Be aware: nobody likes Spammers, Trollers, Propagandists etc. as they
misuse the Internet, the Usenet and the other users. If you violate these
basic rules your account or posting privileges may be revoked.
Most news providers will usually cut your Posting capability if you violate
especially their own terms! (see Rule #A4 above).
As an example: here are the rules of Google:
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/terms_of_service.html
Abuse reports for postings via Google can be done by everyone here:
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups/abuse
or via email to this adress groups-abuse.DeleteThis@google.com
or click "show options", "Report Abuse" at GoogleGroups (see link below)
For step-by-step instructions how to do see these regular posting
- Subject: "HOWTO: REPORTING HATE PROPAGANDA ON THE NET"
- Subject: "Yasalara aykiri yazilari sikayet edin"
Inform us about your experience.
If the Abuse Dept isn't reacting, then such messages violating the laws and
the rules will be cancelled by NET-COPS (see also RFC1036bis, section 7.1).
Cancellation Policy:
Certain articles may be subject to cancellation, including but not
limited to: Make Money Fast chain letters and pyramid schemes;
binaries in non-binary groups; and obvious spam and racistic hate
propaganda postings. The best way to avoid such cancellations is to
not post these types of articles and to not spam in Usenet.
Suspected forgeries will be reported directly to the originating site.
Unauthorized use of registered domains will be reported directly to
the domain whose name is apparently being misused.
For further information on cancels, see Tim Skirvin's Cancel FAQ at
http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/cancel.html .
C) TOOLS:
- Many web tools at
http://www.selfseo.com/ for example to
- get information about the owner of a web site (WHOIS tool)
- determine the country from IP address
- determine the IP adress and country of a web site
...
- News readers: there are many newsreaders, for example
- Microsoft Outlook Express
- Forte Agent / Forte Free Agent
...
- Reading Usenet newsgroups on the web at GoogleGroups (here SCT):
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.turkish?gvc=2&hl=en
for Turkish menues use this instead:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.turkish?gvc=2&hl=tr
- See the headers of a posting to get the IP adress and other data of the sender.
(at GoogleGroups click "show options", "Show original")
- For experts: see the commandline tools PING and TRACERT to get more info
D) MISC NOTES:
These rules will be posted regularly in the newsgroups.
Questions, Complaints, and Proposals for Update of these rules can be
done by everybody; it shall be posted in this newsgroup under this or an
appropriate new thread.
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