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   rec.radio.amateur.* discussion newsgroups for crossposting, but not 
   both. 
  
 - Any FAQ or informational posting approved by the 
   rec.answers/news.answers moderation team that is also crossposted to 
   any rec.radio.* newsgroup (besides just rec.radio.info) is also 
   automatically pre-approved for rec.radio.info.  See below for more 
   information. 
  
 If you post to another moderated group, it may be better to make special 
 arrangements with both moderators before posting by contacting us at our 
 administrivia addresses. 
  
 In addition, cross-posts do not take up extra space; modern newsreaders 
 can be configured to show you cross-posted articles only once anyway; 
 not everybody reads rec.radio.info; and rec.radio.info was never meant 
 to reduce the volume of the regular discussion newsgroups. But keep in 
 mind that some of the mail gateways may filter out the informational 
 postings (at request of the subscribers) to keep the load down. 
  
 You decide. 
  
  -- I have a regular posting with timely information, can I make 
     arrangements to help speed up delivery by posting directly from my 
     site? 
  
 Yes, there is! It may take a bit of chatter with the moderator, but we 
 are willing to take responsible people and provide them the means of 
 posting the articles directly from their site. We will try everything we 
 can as we fully realize that DX (distant signal) and astronomical data 
 can be somewhat transitory. We are also willing to allow regular posters 
 of information the same courtesy, even if the information is not as 
 timely. 
  
 We refer to this as self-moderation, which is partly based on the model 
 for rec.answers/news.answers. This requires cooperation and good will to 
 be beneficial to the community in the rec.radio.* hierarchy. 
  
 If you are currently maintaining (or plan to maintain) a radio-related 
 periodic information posting, you may wish to consider crossposting it 
 to rec.answers/news.answers.  Postings that are approved by the 
 rec.answers/news.answers moderators for this treatment are automatically 
 pre-approved for crossposting to rec.radio.info (as the news.answers 
 requirements are far more rigorous than the requirements this newsgroup 
 ever plans to use).  For more information about this option, consult the 
 appropriate information articles and posting guidelines in 
 rec.answers/news.answers. 
  
 Realize also, that even if your post is not approved for 
 rec.answers/news.answers, it can still be approved for rec.radio.info. 
 The intention is not so much to get every last bit of radio-related 
 information on rec.answers/news.answers, but rather to provide an 
 alternative avenue of approval (as well as grandfather existing 
 maintainers of radio-related information and spare them additional 
 bureaucratic hurdles).  Again, crossposting to either rec.radio.info or 
 rec.answers/news.answers, both, or neither, is at the discretion of the 
 poster (subject to the approval of the moderators).  You decide what is 
 most appropriate for your article. 
  
 Please remember that as an information maintainer, you are not alone. 
 There are many others on the net who maintain and post periodic 
 information postings, using various intermediate-to-advanced features of 
 Usenet (usually via automated tools).  Various degrees of technical 
 support and general hand-holding are available from many Usenet 
 veterans.  Send us some E-mail describing your needs to our 
 administrative address below, and we'll try to help, or at least refer 
 you to the right knowledgeable individual(s). 
  
  -- And Follow-ups? 
  
 If the only newsgroup you have specified is rec.radio.info, then the 
 Followup-To: field will always be set to poster. If you do not want 
 this, you must supply a Followup-To line of your own, and we will honor 
 that one, as long as it is a subset of the original Newsgroups line. 
  
 If you specify newsgroups to cross-post to, then the Followup-To field 
 will be set to include all the cross-posted groups, excepting 
 rec.radio.info itself.  Again, if you do not wish this behavior, supply 
 your own Followup-To line. 
  
 We maintain other standards on the various RFC-1036 (news transport) 
 header lines. For example, if the article is appropriate for passing 
 into the Packet Radio Information Network, we encapsulate the Packet 
 Bulletin Identifier (BID) in the Message-ID: news header line indicating 
 the machine of origin as the ampr.org domain: 
  
  Message-ID: <$opa.55.1994@ampr.org> 
  
 where the Packet Radio BID, in this example, is `$OPA.55', and it was 
 posted in the year 1994, because some of the Bid numbers are cycled 
 yearly. Hopefully, this can be used as a key to re-introduce the 
 articles for the Packet Radio network. Also, if the article is a repost 
 of an already existing information article in the rec.radio heirarchy, 
 we ensure that the References: header line is linked to that previously 
 posted article. This also helps to tag articles, and may be used for 
 additional filtering if needed. 
  
 Since the articles are archived, please use the Summary and Keywords 
 header lines to help one search for your article. 
  
  -- Why have I received no reply from you? 
  
 We never reject anything in silence, and we make a point of it to answer 
 all our mail. However, E-mail, like a brain cell, can and does get lost, 
 every now and again. 
  
 So, if you send us something, and you don't see it appear it 
 rec.radio.info, and you still have not heard from us in reply after say, 
 five days, you can be pretty sure that either your mail never reached 
 us, or that our answer has never reached you. In that case, please try 
 again (We will filter out duplicates). 
  
 Please direct any comments, questions, or criticisms about this article 
 to rec-radio-info-request@panix.com. 
  
 (Adapted, with permission, from the original article written by Mark 
 Salyzyn, AG4YD, ex-VE6MGS.) 
  
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