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    Please submit the FAQ in a form as close as possible to how it
    appears when you post it normally.  This means that you should
    include a complete header, with at the very least the Subject line
    you normally use.  I very much prefer you actually posting the
    message to news.answers as you would post it normally, including
    the cross-posted newsgroups, but omitting the moderation approval
    header line that would cause the article to actually be posted
    rather than mailed to me; this way, I will get to see exactly how
    the article will look when it is actually posted in news.answers.
    Also, if your FAQ does not say somewhere near the top how often it
    is posted, then please let me know the frequency in separate
    E-mail.

    Note that if you do not indicate moderator approval in the header
    of your posting, it will NOT be posted to any newsgroup, even if
    you list other newsgroups on the Newsgroups line besides
    news.answers.  Therefore, you CAN and SHOULD place all Newsgroups
    to which you intend to post in the Newsgroups line, in the order
    you intend them to be in when you post.

    I will respond, either by agreeing that the FAQ belongs in
    news.answers as-is, by asking you to make minor modifications to
    it in order to make it acceptable, or by rejecting it as
    inappropriate for news.answers.  If you are asked to make
    modifications, please do so and resubmit the posting to me just as
    you did the first time.

    Once an FAQ has been approved for news.answers, you will post it
    directly to the group yourself, by indicating in the header of the
    message that it was approved by the news.answers moderator, as
    described above.

    If possible, try to avoid posting your FAQ at a "predictable"
    time.  For example, if you have decided to post it monthly, don't
    automatically decide to post it on the first of every month.  This
    causes a flood of FAQs in news.answers (and on the net in general)
    at certain times of months, and this flood is big enough to
    overwhelm some smaller sites and many readers of news.answers.
    Therefore, rather than picking the "obvious" time to post, pick
    some other, random time during the month to do your posting.

III. If you've submitted before

     If you've submitted FAQs to news.answers before, you still have
     to submit any new FAQs to me using the procedure described above,
     i.e., you cannot just post them directly to news.answers.  This
     is also true if you add new parts to a multi-part posting, or if
     you convert a single posting into a multi-part posting.

IV. Making changes to approved postings

    You should try to let me know if you change the Newsgroups or
    Subject line of a posting that you are cross-posting to
    news.answers, although this isn't very important and I probably
    won't have a heart attack if you forget or don't have time.

    You should definitely let me know if someone else takes over the
    maintenance of a posting that you've submitted.

V. This posting

   Comments about, suggestions about or corrections to this posting
   are welcomed.  If you would like to ask me to change this posting
   in some way, the method I appreciate most is for you to actually
   make the desired modifications to a copy of the posting, and then
   to send me the modified posting, or a context diff between my
   posted version and your modified version (if you do the latter,
   make sure to include in your mail the "Version:" line from my
   posted version).  Submitting changes in this way makes dealing with
   them easier for me and helps to avoid misunderstandings about what
   you are suggesting.

   The following people provided feedback and helped to make this
   posting more readable and useful:

     Stan Brown <[e-mail]>
     Aydin Edguer <[e-mail]>
     [e-mail]
     Cindy Tittle Moore <[e-mail]>
     Steven D. Ourada <[e-mail]>
     Ken Shirriff <[e-mail]>
     Dan Tilque <[e-mail]>
     Bill Wohler <[e-mail]>


V. Getting the "List of Periodic Informational Postings"

   There are three "List of Periodic Informational Postings"
   postings:

    Subject: List of Periodic Informational Postings, Part 1/4
    Subject: List of Periodic Informational Postings, Part 2/4
    Subject: List of Periodic Informational Postings, Part 3/4
    Subject: List of Periodic Informational Postings, Part 4/4
    Newsgroups: news.lists,news.announce.newusers,news.answers

   They are available in the indicated USENET newsgroups, or via
   anonymous ftp from pit-manager.mit.edu (18.172.1.27) in the files:

    /pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/part1
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/part2
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/part3
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/part4

   They are also available from [e-mail] by
   sending a mail message containing any or all of:

    send usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/part1
    send usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/part2
    send usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/part3
    send usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/part4

   If you want to find out more about the mail server, send a message
   to it containing "help".

--
Jonathan Kamens                                         [e-mail]
Aktis, Inc.                                 Moderator, news.answers
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From: [e-mail] (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Introduction to the news.answers newsgroup
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Version: $Id: Introduction,v 1.35 1992/11/05 15:48:12 jik Exp $



                 Introduction

  This is the monthly introductory article for the moderated newsgroup
news.answers.  It explains the purpose of the newsgroup, what kinds of
articles should be submitted, how to submit, how to participate in the
mailing list for periodic posting maintainers, and where to find
archives of news.answers postings.

  Comments about, suggestions about or corrections to this posting are
welcomed.  If you would like to ask me to change this posting in some
way, the method I appreciate most is for you to actually make the
desired modifications to a copy of the posting, and then to send me
the modified posting, or a context diff between my posted version and
your modified version (if you do the latter, make sure to include in
your mail the "Version:" line from my posted version).  Submitting
changes in this way makes dealing with them easier for me and helps to
avoid misunderstandings about what you are suggesting.


            What is news.answers?

  The news.answers newsgroup serves as a repository in which periodic
informational postings (a.k.a "Frequently Asked Questions" postings,
or "FAQs") from other newsgroups are posted.

  Although it's difficult to say exactly what qualifies as an FAQ that
belongs in news.answers, the basic description is, "any posting which
answers common questions and is meant to be read by humans beings."
Furthermore, FAQs cross-posted in news.answers should have meaningful
subject lines.  For example, an FAQ for rec.chess should have a
subject line saying something like "chess Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ)," rather than just "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)."

  For example, the comp.unix.questions "Frequently Asked Questions
about Unix - with Answers [Monthly posting]" and the
news.announce.newusers "Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on
Netiquette" belong in news.answers, as does the README file from
comp.mail.maps.  However, the comp.mail.maps map postings and the
readership statistics from news.lists do not.

  FAQ postings from any hierarchy that travels using "USENET
mechanisms" can be cross-posted to news.answers (i.e. news.answers is
not limited to postings from the comp, sci, misc, soc, talk, news and
rec hierarchies).  If an FAQ maintainer feels that his (and I mean
that "his" in a completely politically correct, gender-neutral way, so
don't bother complaining about it) posting is of interest only to
people in its home hierarchy, then he can (try to) restrict the
distribution of the FAQ using the Distribution mechanism; if he feels
that it is of more general interest, he can avoid any Distribution
restrictions, in which case the FAQ might receive a wider distribution
that most postings in the hierarchy.  This is a pretty reasonable
thing, considering that FAQs are often considered the "distilled
wisdom" of a newsgroup or group of newsgroups, so a single FAQ from a
hierarchy might be of wider interest than the hierarchy as a whole.

  Where there is an ambiguity, I will decide whether or not a posting
belongs in the newsgroup.

  There are several reasons why this newsgroup exists.  They include:

* It is easier for site administrators to keep FAQs around for a long
  time if they are all cross-posted to one newsgroup....
  Administrators can make the maximum expire time for news.answers
  very long, instead of making every newsgroup with FAQs in it have a
  long maximum expire time.

* It is easier for sites that archive FAQs to generate their archives,
  since they will need to watch just one newsgroup rather than
  scanning the entire news spool.

* It provides a "quick reference" for users, in several different
  respects.  Users who want to browse through the various FAQs that
  the USENET has to offer can do so in just one newsgroup.  Users who
  want to find an FAQ from a particular newsgroup but don't know its
  subject can search for that newsgroup in the headers of the articles
  in news.answers.

* Software for retrieving FAQs can also be simplified to use
  news.answers as the basis for FAQ searches.



              How does it work?

  An FAQ maintainer who wants his FAQ to appear in news.answers
submits it to the moderator, following the guidelines in the
"news.answers submission guidelines" posting for proper submission and
format of the FAQ.

  The moderator either accepts the posting as-is, asks the submitter
to make modifications, or rejects it completely.  If modifications are
requested, the submitter makes the modifications and resubmits the
posting to news.answers.

  FAQs that are approved will be assigned a unique (to news.answers)
archive name, which the FAQ maintainer should put in an
"Archive-name:" line at the top of the FAQ.  For example, the
comp.unix.questions FAQ might be given the archive name "unix-faq", in
which case "Archive-name: unix-faq" would be added to the top of the
FAQ.  Multi-part postings will be so labeled in the "Archive-name:"
line, for example, "Archive-name: X-faq/part1".  FAQ submitters should
put the "Archive-name:" line in their postings, with a suggested
archive name in it.  For more information about choosing archive name,
see the "news.answers submission guidelines" posting.

  Once an FAQ has been approved for news.answers, its maintainer can
post it directly to the group himself, by indicating in the header of
the message that it was approved by the news.answers moderator.  FAQ
maintainers who don't know how to do that can contact the news.answers
moderator to find out.

  This should be emphasized: I will not actually post copies of FAQs
in the newsgroup.  Instead, my job is to approve FAQs, which are then
cross-posted by their maintainers to the newsgroup, and to watch the
newsgroup to make sure unauthorized postings do not appear in it.
However, I am willing to assist FAQ maintainers who would like me to
post their FAQs for them, and/or who would like help in figuring out
how to properly go about posting a periodic FAQ.



             What about the mailing list?

  If you are interested in discussion about the maintenance of USENET
periodic postings and related topics (e.g. automatic archival of such
postings), you may wish to join the "faq-maintainers" mailing list.
FAQ maintainers who post FAQs in news.answers are encouraged to join
the mailing list.

  If you are not interested in discussion, but you would still like to
receive announcements directed to FAQ maintainers, then you may wish
to join the "faq-maintainers-announce" list instead.  Note that
subscribers to faq-maintainers will automatically receive messages
sent to faq-maintainers-announce.

  To subscribe to or unsubscribe from one of these lists, send mail
with your request to [e-mail].  To send a
message to "faq-maintainers," write to [e-mail].  To
send a message to "faq-maintainers-announce", write to
[e-mail], with a blank carbon copy ("bcc") to
[e-mail] (if you don't know how to do this,
ask for help from someone at your site or contact me), so that replies
to your message will go to the faq-maintainers list rather than the
faq-maintainers-announce list (which should not be used for
discussion).



           Where is news.answers archived?

  News.answers is archived in the periodic posting archive on
pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27].  Postings are located in the
anonymous ftp directory /pub/usenet/news.answers, and are archived by
"Archive-name".  Other subdirectories of /pub/usenet contain periodic
postings that may not appear in news.answers.

  If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archives
by mail server as well.  Send an E-mail message to
[e-mail] with "help" and "index" in the body on
separate lines for more information.

  Other news.answers/FAQ archives (which carry some or all of the FAQs
in the pit-manager archive) are:

    ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] in the anonymous ftp
        directory /pub/NEWS.ANSWERS (also accessible via mail
        server requests to [e-mail])
    cnam.cnam.fr [192.33.159.6] in the anonymous ftp directory /pub/FAQ
    ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9 or 192.48.96.9] in the anonymous ftp
        directory /usenet
    ftp.win.tue.nl [131.155.70.100] in the anonymous ftp directory
        /pub/usenet/news.answers
    grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr [134.214.100.25] in the anonymous ftp
        directory /pub/faq (also accessible via mail server
        requests to [e-mail], and via
        gopher on port 70)
    nctuccca.edu.tw [140.111.3.21] in the anonymous ftp directory
        /USENET/FAQ
    nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] in the anonymous ftp directory
        /info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings, with FAQs in
        the "faqs" subdirectory and an index in the "00index"
        file (also accessible by telnet'ing to nic.switch.ch
        and logging in as "info", or by mail to
        [e-mail], or by anonymous UUCP to
        host chx400 in the directory
        ~/ftp/info_service/Usenet/periodic-postings)

Furthermore, the gopher server on port 70 of jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
[131.202.3.10] has a news.answers archive.

  If you decide to archive news.answers and make it available to
people for anonymous ftp, mail archive server or something else,
please let me know so I can mention your archive in this posting.

  Note that the periodic posting archives on pit-manager.mit.edu are
also accessible via Prospero and WAIS (the database name is "usenet"
on port 210).  If you don't know what Prospero or WAIS are, don't
worry about it.  And don't write to me and ask, please; I unfortuately
already have too many things to deal with without having to answer
questions about other people's software.


                   Credits

  Thanks to Martin Berli <[e-mail]> for running the SWITCH FAQ
archive, Frederic Chauveau <[e-mail]> for running the
cnam.cnam.fr FAQ archive, James R. Revell, Jr. <[e-mail]>
for running the ftp.uu.net archive, Hank P. Penning <[e-mail]>
for running the archive.cs.ruu.nl archive, and
<[e-mail]> for running the
grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr server.  Thanks to J. Anthony Fitzgerald
<[e-mail]> for making news.answers postings available via gopher on
the unba.ca gopher server.

--
Jonathan Kamens                                         [e-mail]
MIT Information Systems/Athena              Moderator, news.answers
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From: [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.answers
Subject: Changes to Introduction to news.announce
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Archive-name: news-announce-intro/diff1
Last-change: 23 Sept 1992 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)


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--- ./src/intro.n    Wed Sep 23 10:57:57 1992
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*** 5,7 ****
  Original-author: [e-mail] (Mark Horton)
! Last-change: 30 Nov 91 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)

--- 5,7 ----
  Original-author: [e-mail] (Mark Horton)
! Last-change: 23 Sept 1992 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)

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*** 42,44 ****
  all hierarchies should be posted to news.announce.newgroups.
! Submissions should be directed to [e-mail] (or to
  your nearest major site).  Followups will be redirected to
--- 42,44 ----
  all hierarchies should be posted to news.announce.newgroups.
! Submissions should be directed to [e-mail] (or to
  your nearest major site).  Followups will be redirected to
***************
*** 71,72 ****
       news.announce.newgroups moderator   news.announce.conferences
!      [e-mail]                        [e-mail]
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       news.announce.newgroups moderator   news.announce.conferences
!      [e-mail]                   [e-mail]
--
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences
Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
Internet:  [e-mail]    phone:  [phone]
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From: [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers
Subject: Introduction to news.announce
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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Archive-name: news-announce-intro/part1
Original-author: [e-mail] (Mark Horton)
Last-change: 23 Sept 1992 by [e-mail] (Gene Spafford)

The news.announce hierarchy contains the four moderated newsgroups
news.announce.important, news.announce.newgroups,
news.announce.newusers, and news.announce.conferences.

"news.announce.important" is a newsgroup for just what it says it is --
important announcements.  It is intended to be read by everyone on
Usenet, although nobody is forced to subscribe.  To post to
news.announce.important, send mail to the moderator at
"[e-mail]".  Some netnews implementations will
automatically mail to the moderator anything posted instead of
attempting to post it directly.  If the message is appropriate, it will
be posted by the moderator; if not, the moderator will suggest a more
appropriate place to post it or a better way to go about the same
goal.

Discussions in news.announce.important are explicitly forbidden, and
the volume of traffic will be kept low enough to keep people from
feeling a need to unsubscribe.  Usenet administrators for each site
should make a point of reading news.announce.important.

The current policy is that news.announce.important submissions must be:

(a) short - preferably they should fit on one crt screen, including headers.
(b) important enough to at least have their header shown to everyone on the
    net.  The posting should be more of benefit to the net than to the poster.
(c) not posted to any other newsgroup - news.announce.important by itself is
    supposed to be sufficient to reach everybody, and nobody should have to
    read an announcement more than once.
(d) signed - the author should be clearly evident.
(e) not commercial, political, or religious in nature.

news.announce.newgroups exists for announcements of either the
creation or the consideration of a new newsgroup.  All calls for
votes, calls for discussions, vote results, and creation notices of
all hierarchies should be posted to news.announce.newgroups.
Submissions should be directed to [e-mail] (or to
your nearest major site).  Followups will be redirected to
news.groups.

Some messages will be repeated every month, in order to reach all
newcomers.  These messages will be placed in news.announce.newusers,
which is also moderated.  This makes it safe for experienced users who
have already read these messages to unsubscribe to
news.announce.newusers without missing anything new in
news.announce.important.  If you aren't familiar with the netnews
guidelines in news.announce.newusers, please read them carefully.
Your understanding of these rules will assure that you don't annoy the
more than 1 million members of the net community (estimated) by
unintentionally abusing the net, and will help you get more value from
the net.

news.announce.conference is for announcements of conference programs,
calls for papers, and things of that kind.  Submissions should be
directed to [e-mail].  Please keep Subject lines
informative; if space permits, mention the topic and location there,
and avoid acronyms unless very widely known.


    Mark Horton                         Gene Spafford
    news.announce.important moderator   news.announce.newusers moderator
    [e-mail]                   [e-mail]

     David Lawrence                      Dennis Page
     news.announce.newgroups moderator   news.announce.conferences
     [e-mail]                   [e-mail]
--
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences
Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398
Internet:  [e-mail]    phone:  [phone]
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From: [e-mail] (Steve Pierce)
Newsgroups: rec.nude,news.answers
Subject: REC.NUDE Frequently Asked Questions, Part I of II
Summary: Questions (and their answers) frequently asked on REC.NUDE.
         Posted monthly on the 1st of each month.
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Archive-name: nude-faq/part1
Version: 2.3
Last-modified: 1992/11/30

Additions marked by + in column 1.  Modifications marked by | in column 1.

Frequently Asked Questions on REC.NUDE, part I of II
    1. What is REC.NUDE?
    2. What does CO, thong, etc. mean?
    3. Why nude recreation?
    3A. But isn't it illegal?
    3b. Isn't nudity sinful?
    4. Won't I offend someone?
    5. What is the difference between a naturist and a nudist?
    6. What if I (a male) get an erection?
    7. But doesn't nudity equate with sexuality?
    8. Does one go naked all the time?
    9. I just had surgery and have a scar.  What will people think?
   10. Where can I find a CO beach/resort near me?
   11. What should I take with me when I visit a nude beach or resort?
   12. I would like to participate in REC.NUDE, but am afraid to post.
       Is there is an anonymous posting service?
==============================================================================
  1. What is REC.NUDE?
     From the REC.NUDE charter:
       "REC.NUDE serves as a medium for exchange of views, news, philosophies,
        and ideologies relating to the nudist and naturist lifestyles.

        Here you will find discussions of locations to enjoy nature naturally,
        notifications of legal proceedings affecting nudists/naturists, notices
        of gatherings and trips, and spirited discourse on issues relating
        (most times) to nudism."

     REC.NUDE is NOT a place to pick up someone.  Harassing/threatening mail or
     posts are NOT desired or condoned.  See question 7 (and its answer).
     Flames may be directed to ALT.DEV.NULL.

     General cross-posting of messages in NOT encouraged, especially not with
     the various alt.sex newsgroups.  Threads get confused and the discussion
     quickly gets "off track".

  2. What does CO, thong, etc. mean?
     ASA - American Sunbathing Association.
     Bulletin, The - ASA's publication.
     Canuding - canoeing in the nude.
     CCBN - Central Council for British Naturism.
     CO - Clothing-Optional.
+    ESA - Eastern Sunbathing Association, ASA eastern region
+    FANR - Florida Association for Nude Recreation, ASA Florida Region
     FCN - Federation of Canadian Naturists.
     IMO/IMHO - In My (Humble/Honest) Opinion
     INF - International Federation of Naturists.
     N - Nude & Natural magazine, published by The Naturist Society.
     NAC - Naturist Action Committee.
|    Naturist - not to be confused with NATURALIST.  see question 5.
     NIFOC - Nude In Front Of Computer.
     Ob[xxx] (e.g. ObNude, ObBeer) - Introduces an on-topic statement following
                                     an off-topic statement.  "Ob" comes from
                                     the word "Obligatory".
     Thong - in this newsgroup refers to G-String style swimwear.
     TNS - The Naturist Society.
     Top-free - naturist preferred term for what is commonly referred to as
                topless (topless has gained undesirable connotations from
                association with strip bars).
+    WSA - Western Sunbathing Association, ASA western region
+
+    NOTE: nudists do no live in COLONIES -- that is an antiquated term that
+    should not be used.

  3. Why nude recreation?
     Some would retort, "Why not nude recreation?"  A more informative answer
     would point out that most naturists wear dress only when appropriate.

     If it's 20 degrees and a blizzard outside, wearing clothes makes quite
     a bit of sense!  Conversely, it makes little sense to go to the beach
     to "take the sun" and then cover some of the body with itty-bitty little
     strips of synthetic (or even natural) cloth.

     The feeling of the sun, wind, and water on your body brings you closer
     to the surroundings around you.  Not having to worry about sand and salt
     in clothing adds to your recreation (of course, wise use of sunscreens
     still applies here, as much as on a clothed beach).

     When you add to this the growing body of knowledge from researchers and
     sportswear industry leaders that dysfunctional dress - too tight or skimpy
     swimwear - is damaging to health, it becomes clear that nude recreation
     is the logical choice in many situations...

  3A. But isn't it illegal?
     ...even with all this evidence, it boggles the mind as to why many laws
     exist on the books to this day which mandate the use of bathing costumes;
     even laws which do not apply to nude recreation are being mis-applied
     to innocent skinny dipping or sunbathing.

     Although there are no U.S. Federal laws prohibiting nude recreation on
     Federal lands except at Cape Cod, concurrent jurisdiction became the catch
     phrase in the early 1980s, allowing state and local laws to be enforced by
     park rangers, Bureau of Land Management officers, and the like.  This
     insidious encroachment onto Federal turf raises Constitutional questions
     and allows state and local jurisdictions to limit or eliminate altogether
     many traditional sites suitable for clothing-optional recreation.