OK, real sound BOFHnet sites with News Admins from Hell don't need
these, but if you have a nearby site with a wimpy user-friendly news admin
you can LART them with these.
[The existence of these rules doesn't mean that everything not prohibited
is permitted. In particular, rules-lawyering these is a great way to get
yourself special treatment by the bot]
Okay, here's version 1.1. I *think* I incorporated everybody's
comments. I took out the bit about bofh@site; at best it's a
suggestion and not a rule. Let me know what you think...
The Official BOFHnet RulesFH
Propagation rules:
1.
Propagate articles in bofh.* only to other BOFHnet sites.
2.
Accept articles posted to bofh.* only from other BOFHnet sites. If
this is impractical, at least do not propagate bofh.* articles received
from non-BOFHnet sources to BOFHnet.
3.
Do not propagate bofh.* articles that do not have Distribution: bofh
in the header.
4.
If a site that you feed refuses to obey the Official BOFHnet RulesFH,
it is automatically no longer part of BOFHnet, and it is your
responsibility to adjust propagation accordingly.
Posting rules:
5.
Allow only BOFHs and suitably clued persons to read and post to
bofh.*.
6.
Do not crosspost among more than three bofh.* newsgroups.
7.
Do not crosspost between bofh.* and non-bofh.* newsgroups.
8.
Do not post a message such that followups will be to more than three
groups.
9.
Do not multi-post messages at all.
10.
The correct dead chicken(s) must be employed on posts to bofh.*.
(Note: this requirement left intentionally vague.)
11.
Do not allow users to repost bofh.* news articles to non-bofh.*
newsgroups.
Miscellaneous rules:
12.
All BOFHnet sites must be registered by sending email to
bofh@shkoo.com.
J. Porter Clark jpc@drum.msfc.nasa.gov
NASA/MSFC Flight Data Systems Branch