From: surekha@nyx.cs.du.edu (Surekha Reddy Gaddam)
Subject: Welcome to misc.news.southasia
Keywords: Guidelines - monthly posting, September, 1992
Organization: Beechwood Data Systems, NJ
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 23:29:05 GMT


Hi:

Welcome to misc.news.southasia, a moderated news group. This posting is
designed to tell you about our news group and some suggested guidelines.

This group has been primarily designed for dissemination of latest
news pertinent to South Asia which consists of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, 
Bhutan, Maldives, India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Please forward your articles to the submission address by mailing them
to:  surekha@nyx.cs.du.edu. 

	1. Guidelines for submission of articles to misc.news.southasia
	   (henceforth referred to as "mns") and other policies for the
	   news group will be posted once in a month by the moderator,
           Surekha Reddy Gaddam. ( henceforth referred to as "the 
	   moderator."). These policies and guidelines are subject to 
	   change by the moderator from time to time.

	2. Here are the salient features of this news group:

	  a) News only relevant to Southasia must be included.

	  b) Articles should be submitted to the moderator only 
	     and should not be posted to the news-group directly.

	  c) Rejected articles may contain reasons for rejection unless
   	     the moderator believes that the article was completely 
	     inappropriate for mns.  (This means that test-messages or 
	     other obvious non-news articles will not be acknowledged.)
	     The contributor is welcome to make any changes and submit
	     the article again.  The rejected article will be returned to
	     the contributor.

          d) The Moderator's decision whether or not to post an article
   	     would be final.

	  e) Suggestions for improvement are welcome and contributions
	     are solicited. Please write to the moderator in a separate
             e-mail.

	  f) Articles must be submitted in the following format :
	     (This makes mine and your life easier.)

	Format of the articles:
	
	i)  Header : Must be brief and informative. It must be in the 
	    following format :

	    Country : Afghanisthan, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan etc.

	    Type of news : Political
			   Economic  
			   Miscellaneous 
			   Sports  
		           etc

	ii) News source : These may be one of the following:

	    News agencies quoting Bangladesh Sangbad Sangsta(Bangladesh),
	    Nepal Rashtriya Samachar (Nepal), Press Trust of India, 
            UNI (India), PPI, FPI (Pakistan) and Lanka Puwath (Sri Lanka) etc.

	    News magazines like Bangladesh Times, Bangladesh Observer, 
            The New Nation (Bangladesh), Times of India, Hindu, Indian 
            Express (India), The Rising Nepal (Nepal), Dawn, Nation
            (Pakistan), The Island and Ceylon Daily News (Sri Lanka ) etc.

	    News broadcasts on Radio and T.V : AIR, BBC, NPR, Radio Pakistan
	    etc.  Articles which fail to mention a clearly identifiable
	    news source will be rejected. 
	    

	iii) Date : The date when the news report was published. 

		If broadcast on air, state time of broadcast.  State whether
               	contributor is providing a news summary or verbatim
               	report.

	iv) Sender's full name and e-mail address.

	v)  Table of contents : List the contents in the same order as
	    they appear in the body of the article.

	vi) Body of the article :
	    The article must be a report of events and not the personal 
	    experiences/views of one or a group of persons unless these
	    are vital to the report. List news items pointwise.
	    Any statement made by a person be it a government official 
	    or correspondent must be enclosed in quotes unless the entire 
	    article is a statement from such a person and is mentioned 
	    clearly in the article. For instance, if the article is
	    from a periodical( e.g Time) any statement made must be 
	    phrased as : ..... correspondent < include name> reports ,"...
	    .....". 

 	    ( * I might have to make an exception in format for the direct 
	     news feeds however. )
	    
Disclaimer :

	The moderator is not responsible for the accuracy of the contents. 
	It is not the duty of the moderator to collect news articles and
	articles posted do not reflect the opinions of the moderator.
	The moderator assumes absolutely no responsibility for copyright
        violations in the articles submitted to mns for posting.


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