From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: Posting Guidelines: rec.games.frp.announce
Followup-To: sender
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:04:39 GMT

Before I get to the Guidelines for posting to rec.games.frp.announce, a
look at the actual charter of this group is recommended:

NAME:      rec.games.frp.announce (Moderated)
MODERATOR: Coyt Watters <rg-frp-announce@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
           backup by Joshua Levy <joshua@veritas.com>
CHARTER:   This group is intended for all announcements relating to
           roleplaying games. This may include, but is not limited to,
           game release announcements, pbem announcements, convention
           announcements, and any other events. Discussion of material
           in this newsgroup should be done in the appropriate
           roleplaying discussion group. Please direct followup lines as
           appropriate.

Ok, simple enough, almost any kind of announcement is welcome here.

Typically, your post to this group will be processed by 16:30 Eastern (US) 
of the next business day.  When I am going to be gone for an extended time
(vacation YAY!), my mailer automatically forwards all mail addressed
properly (to rg-frp-announce, NOT CWATTERS) to Josh, who has volunteered
to serve as my backup.

Guidelines for announcements:

These guidelines will expedite the processing of your post, please follow
them.

1)	Make sure you have returns on every 70-79 letters.  While the document
	may look ok to you, most newsreaders HATE word processing style 
	paragraphs.  By convention (i.e. I don't have time to format the
	message) any posting which does not have proper EOL will be rejected.

2)	The following list the minimum information I need to approve a post

Play by Email (PBEM)
	All that is needed is:
	What gaming system is going to be used.
	How many players you need.
	The mailing address to join the game.
	If the game requires a fee, the fee must be stated.

Convention Listings:
	Location of the CON (Country, City, State)
	Dates/Times
	Sponsoring Organization
	Contact address of the sponsor (email or snailmail)
	
Product Announcements:
	Item Name
	Publisher/Company
	Availability (i.e. Mail order only, gaming stores everywhere, etc)
	Suggested (or approximate) cost
	Release date

Press Releases:
	I am pretty liberal on these, just about anything which is not too
	(subjective to the moderator of course) much advertising or is 
	flamebait material is usually approved.  I may contact you asking
	for a little more info.

Approval/Rejection/Crosspost/Redirected:

	If your message is approved, it is posted to the .announce group
	and you shoiuld see it as soon as netnews gets it to your site.
	
	If your post is rejected, I will email you an explanation for the
	rejection.  You can either make some changes and resubmit, or send
	it to one of the unmoderated groups.

	Crossposting is, by convention, removed from messages posted to 
	rgf.announce.  Only in cases where the information is very 
	important (i.e. I get an announcement with errata on a just 
	released product) will I crosspost.

	Redirection is not done often, but if you post something like a
	description of weapons in ADND terms, I will sometimes redirect
	your message and post it to a more appropriate group.

That's pretty much all there is to it.
-Coyt