CAM.INF Tue 16-May-1995, brought up to date Wed 7-February-1996 These are the official charters of the following Usenet newsgroups comp.archives.msdos.announce (moderated) comp.archives.msdos.d The newsgroups were created the 15th of December 1992. Please contact your system manager if your site is not getting these newsgroups. comp.archives.msdos.announce (moderated) ---------------------------- This moderated newsgroup is for the upload announcements and related information from MS-DOS archive sites (also called FTP sites) with Public Domain, Freeware and Shareware material. The subjects include the upload announcements via the MS-DOS FTP site moderators, the MS-DOS sites' periodical summaries, potential policy statements and downtime warnings, and the MS-DOS FTP site moderators' reports about the connectivity problems with their archive sites. Unix announcements conform only if they directly relate to transferring or handling the MS-DOS material from the MS-DOS FTP sites. Principal Moderator: Keith Petersen (w8sdz@Simtel.Net) Co-Moderator: Timo Salmi (ts@uwasa.fi) + FAQ maintenance Joined Moderators: Ari Hovila (ajh@uwasa.fi) Chris Gavula (gavula@Simtel.Net) Further clarification: The purpose of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce is to be a ONE-WAY channel for MS-DOS upload announcements which the moderators handle, and other one-way, occasional information relating to MS-DOS archive sites. The moderators will therefore not be handling users' discussion material, questions, and replies. The unmoderated news:comp.archives.msdos.d newsgroup (see below) will cover that aspect. Official one line description: Announcements about MS-DOS archives. (Moderated) comp.archives.msdos.d --------------------- "This unmoderated newsgroup is the discussion subgroup of the moderated comp.archives.msdos.announce newsgroup. The newsgroup covers users' reports, questions and discussions about the Public Domain and shareware programs at the MS-DOS archive sites (also called FTP sites), and the users' questions about the MS-DOS FTP sites such as the users' connectivity problem reports. The group is also for posting requests/replies concerning where to find such programs as are stored at the MS-DOS FTP sites. However, users are expected to refer to the FTP site file indexes before posting such requests. The newsgroup does not cover any discussions of fully commercial programs or programs for other operating systems like OS/2. (These programs have Usenet newsgroups of their own)." Official one line description: Discussion of materials available in MS-DOS archives. For the combined FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) of comp.archives.msdos.announce (moderated) and comp.archives.msdos.d please see ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/pd2/camfaq.zip. It complements the TSFAQN questions. .................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi archives 193.166.120.5 Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa ts@uwasa.fi http://uwasa.fi/~ts BBS 961-3170972; FIN-65101, Finland