NETIQUETTE and POSTING RULES for soc.culture.turkish (SCT)..

NETIQUETTE and POSTING RULES for soc.culture.turkish (SCT)
v1.02b 14-Nov-2006

Latest Changes:
- updated #2
- updated section A1
- added new section A2


1) You are required to follow the Newsgroups Etiquette at
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/

2) The topic of this newsgroup is about TURKEY (aka TÜRKIYE or T.C. or TR) :
Developments in/around/about Turkey, 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
soc.history.war.misc
soc.history.moderated
us.military.history
...

3) This is an international newsgroup.
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 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 news articles etc.:
We have had many fabricated and manipulated postings of
news articles in the past from some Armenian propagandists.
All postings of news articles 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.

7) Propaganda messages (for example from the Greek/Armenian propaganda machinery):
Such messages are FORBIDDEN here!

Spam, Trash, Garbage, Troll, Childish Messages:
Such messages are FORBIDDEN here!

9) Obscene, Defamotary, Offending, Threating, Rasictic, 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)


A1) 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 #4 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.TakeThisOut@google.com
or click "show options", "Report Abuse" at GoogleGroups (see below)


A2) 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 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")


A3) MISC NOTES:

These rules will be posted regularly in the newsgroup.

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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