nyuuzyou/wikis huggingface dataset:
'Make money fast' schemes

Many people on the Internet will try to get rich quick, and will try to get you to send them money with attempts to get you some quick cash.
Don't do it. If you get in at the bottom of a pyramid scheme, you will not make any money. They are also illegal in many countries. As an example, pyramid schemes are considered mail fraud when conducted through US mail.
"Get rich quick" schemes often tell you to crosspost their advertisements to between 10 and 200 newsgroups. Don't do this!
== Consequences of inappropriate behaviour ==
* People who read news will report you to your news admininstrator, postmaster and/or abuse desk.
* Many schools and ISPs (Internet service providers) will cancel your account if you send unwelcome advertisements using newsgroups or email.
* While you wait for your account to be terminated, you will receive indignant email messages as well as "flaming" newsgroup replies from people who are angered by your actions.
* You will gain a very bad reputation that may haunt you for decades through publicly available newsgroup archives.
* People may also report your endeavours to your local tax authority, so that any unreported income can be investigated.
So be safe - just say no to fast-money schemes.
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This article is based on material authored by members of the Moderation Board and nnq-workers mailing list, particularly by Dennis D. Calhoun (until 2005) and Thor Kottelin (since 2007).
Category:news.newusers.questions
AMA-May2021

== ANNOUNCEMENT: AMA on May 28, 2021 with the Usenet Big-8 Management Board ==
The Usenet Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announce that it will be holding an AMA on Reddit this coming Friday!
We (Jason Evans, Rayner Lucas, and Tristan Miller) administer the original, mainstream discussion hierarchies on Usenet, an online network that was established in 1980, a decade before the World Wide Web.
We recently reconstituted the Board after a three-year dormancy, and have been busy restoring and modernizing its infrastructure, as well as stepping up public outreach efforts to promote Usenet. Drop by to ask us about the past and future of Usenet and the Big 8, about the technical and social challenges currently facing the network, and about why people still converse on Usenet today (and why you should too)!
The AMA thread will be posted in r/IAmA on Friday, May 28 2021 starting at 19:00 UTC. You can check the starting time in your own time zone.
Administrative statement for news.newusers.questions

== Introduction ==
The newsgroup news.newusers.questions is a moderated group. Moderation is a brief review process intended to ensure that the group contains only on-topic messages having no harmful technical issues.
When you send a message to the group, your message will not appear in the group immediately. However, unless there is something wrong with the message, a moderator will soon approve it, placing it in the group for everyone to read. Currently, moderation is performed primarily by human moderators (rather than automatically, by software).
Please expect a delay of several hours between the time you send your message and the time your message appears on your news server.
The charter for news.newusers.questions defines what is on topic for this group. It also specifies the powers of the Moderation Board.
== Rejections and appeals ==
When a moderator rejects a message, he or she tries to email a rejection notice to the sender. This notice would include the reason for the rejection. You can appeal such a rejection by sending an emailed reply to the rejection notice or by writing to nnq-request@nan.users.panix.com.
If you think a moderator may have rejected your message, but you have not received a rejection notice, please make sure you have configured your newsreader with your correct email address.
== Moderator contacts ==
Please send any mail related to the moderation of the group to nnq-request@nan.users.panix.com.
== Moderation Board ==
The moderation of this group is currently handled by the Big-8 Management Board (as of December 2023).
== Past moderators ==
=== Head Moderator, Emeritus ===
* Jon Bell (jbell at presby.edu), from June 1997 to September 2007
=== Moderators Emeriti ===
* Dennis Calhoun (dcalhoun at BLomand.Net), from June 1997 to September 2007
* Denis McKeon (dmckeon at swcp.com), from June 1997 to September 2007
* Barbara Pattist (pattist at earthlink.net), from June 1997 to September 2007
* Kivi Shapiro (kivi at pobox.com), from June 1997 to September 2007
* Dave Howard, from June 1997 to May 2000
* Don Sillaway, from June 1997 to November 1999
* Ethan Bradford, from June 1997 to March 1998
* Stella Nemeth, from June 1997 to December 1997
* Kate Weizel, from June 1997 to September 1997
* Kathy Cole (kathy at scconsult.com), from October 1997 to September 2007
* Julius Kusuma, from March 1998 to May 2001
* Michael Buchenrieder, from May 2000 to September 2007
* Heinrich Schramm (heinrich at schramm.com), from May 2000 to September 2007
* Thor Kottelin, from June 1997 to some time in 2016
* Kathy Morgan, from October 1997 to May 2000, and from November 2009 to December 2023
Category:news.newusers.questions
Advertising and selling

The newsgroup is not for the buying and selling of any items.
For general sales, you may want the newsgroup , or a group that ends in .forsale or .marketplace.
If you want to find a place to advertise or sell items that are more specific, you should not post them to any and every newsgroup available to you. Many newsgroup hierarchies have separate groups for buying, selling and advertising. Newsgroups may have special restrictions as to what types of ads can be posted to the group, and how often they can be posted there.
Your best bet is to ask the members of the newsgroup whether advertisements are permitted in their group, and where ads or sales posts could be posted instead. If you are polite, the readers will be more than happy to help you!
For more information, please read Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It by Joel K. Furr.
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This article is based on material authored by members of the Moderation Board and nnq-workers mailing list, particularly by Dennis D. Calhoun (until 2005) and Thor Kottelin (since 2007).
Category:news.newusers.questions
Announcements

* 2025-02-02: 2nd RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
* 2025-01-18: RESULT: rec.radio.broadcasting will be removed
* 2025-01-18: RESULT: rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info will be removed
* 2025-01-03: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
* 2025-01-03: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info - LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS
* 2025-01-03: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.radio.broadcasting - LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS (REDUX)
* 2025-01-03: MODERATOR FOUND: comp.os.plan9
* 2024-12-06: 2nd RFD: Remove rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info
* 2024-11-17: RFD: Remove rec.arts.comics.reviews and rec.arts.comics.info
* 2024-10-28: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.os.plan9
* 2024-09-27: MODERATOR FOUND: news.announce.newusers
* 2024-09-27: MODERATOR FOUND: news.newusers.questions
* 2024-09-13: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.lang.asm.x86
* 2024-04-10: MODERATOR FOUND: news.admin.technical
* 2024-03-28: MODERATOR FOUND: comp.programming.literate
* 2024-02-27: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: news.admin.technical
* 2024-02-12: MODERATOR FOUND: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
Announcing your web page

== In newsgroups ==
 is not the place to advertise or announce web pages. The proper place to advertise your web page on Netnews would be a newsgroup that deals directly with the material on your page.
Posting an advertisement or announcement to an inappropriate newsgroup, or worse, to multiple newsgroups (crossposting or multiposting), will usually yield very negative results, from angry replies to account termination. Please see our pyramid-scheme warning page for details of what could await you!
== The signature file ==
The easiest way to advertise your web page is to stick it in your signature file and participate in newsgroups by posting helpful, on-topic messages. Every time someone reads an article you have written, he or she will also see your "sig". As long as you keep your signature to four lines or less, you can put almost any information you want in it!
== Additional reading ==
For more information, please read Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It, by Joel K. Furr.
== On the Web itself ==
The most effective way to advertise your web page is to use a search engine optimization (SEO) provider. They usually charge for their services.
Alternatively, you can submit your page directly to web directories, such as to the Open Directory Project. Search engines usually accept submissions as well, but they might nevertheless list your page only after other listed pages have linked to it.
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This article is based on material authored by members of the Moderation Board and nnq-workers mailing list, particularly by Dennis D. Calhoun (until 2005) and Thor Kottelin (since 2007).
Category:news.newusers.questions
Avoiding HTML when posting news

HTML-formatted postings are not welcome in newsgroups. While your software may interpret HTML correctly, many news-reading clients have only minimal ability to display HTML correctly. In addition, HTML postings often include your message twice: a plain text version is followed immediately by a version including HTML tags. This extra version of your message more than doubles the total length of the posting, and adds unnecessary download time for other newsgroup readers. Between other users' software's inability to interpret your posting correctly, and the longer postings costing additional money to download (much of the world uses dial-up connections, but does not have free local calling), you're likely to receive complaints if you post in HTML. These complaints can range from polite to thermonuclear.
If you are using Netscape Navigator/Communicator or Microsoft Internet News/Outlook Express to read and post news articles, you are affected. What may seem to you like a plain text message could actually be posted in HTML without you realizing it. This is because of the way those software packages are designed.
== vCards ==
If you are using Netscape Collabra 4.x or Microsoft Outlook Express and you post with vCards, you will likely also get requests to stop doing so. For those using other newsreaders, vCards just look like a long signature, which newsgroup readers commonly find annoying.
== How to turn off HTML posting ==
=== Netscape products ===
==== Netscape 3.x or earlier ====
# From the top menu bar, select Options → Mail and News Preferences → Composition
# Make sure that Allow 8-bit is selected (not MIME compliant)
# If there is a Use HTML Composition Window selection available, be sure it is not selected
==== Netscape Communicator 4.0x (Collabra discussion groups) ====
# From the top menu bar, select Edit → Preferences → Mail & Groups → Messages
# Make sure the box next to By default, send HTML messages is empty
# To disable vCards, go to Mail & Groups → Identity and make sure the box next to Always attach Address Book Card to messages is empty.
==== Netscape Communicator 4.5 (Newsgroups) ====
# From the top menu bar, select Edit → Preferences → Mail & Newsgroups → Formatting
# In the Message formatting box, select Use the plain text editor to compose messages
# To disable vCards, go to Mail & Newsgroups → Identity, and make sure the box next to Attach my personal card to messages (as a vCard) is empty.
=== Microsoft products ===
==== Microsoft Internet News ====
# Select menu News
# Select Options → Send
# Check the Plain Text box
==== Microsoft Outlook Express ====
# From the main menu, select Tools → Options → Send → Mail or News
# Check the Plain Text box, preferably for both mail and news (many mail clients can't handle HTML either, so it's best not to send it unless you're sure your recipient can read it)
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This article is based on material authored by members of the Moderation Board and nnq-workers mailing list, particularly by Kathy Cole (until 2005) and Thor Kottelin (since 2007).
Category:news.newusers.questions
Big-8 covered in The Register, TechSpot

The Big-8 hierarchy and the Big-8 Management Board have been covered in two recent articles in the tech press:
* "USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix" by Liam Proven (The Register, 2023-08-30)
* "Usenet is still alive, and the Big-8 Board is managing things again" by Alfonso Maruccia (TechSpot, 2023-08-31)
Board Membership Policy

== Preamble ==
1. This Policy lays down the procedures and protocols for appointing
and removing Members of the Big-8 Management Board (hereinafter
referred to as "the Board").
== The Handover Date ==
1.	The dates on which terms of office begin and end shall hereinafter
be referred to as "the Handover Dates". The Handover Dates shall be
April 1st and October 1st in each year.
== Term of Office ==
1.	The term of office for a Member of the Board shall ordinarily be
eighteen months. There shall be no limit on the number of terms that a
Member of the Board may serve.
2.	The Board Shall Be Appointed by Thirds
3.	The Secretary of the Board shall be responsible for maintaining a
list of Members of the Board and the expiration dates of their terms
of office, and for informing the Board at least one calendar month
before each Handover Date which Members' terms of office will expire
on the forthcoming Handover Date. In the absence of a Secretary, the
Chair shall be responsible.
4.	If, following appointment and/or removal of members, the number of
members due to retire on any one Handover Date is greater than
one-third, rounded up, of the full membership of the Board, the Chair
shall arrange, by consent if possible, or by a random process, to
adjust sufficient Members' term of office expiration date such that
approximately one-third of the membership of the Board retires on each
upcoming Handover Date.
== Resignation of Existing Members ==
1.	A Member may resign from the Board at any time by notifying all
other Members.
2.	Upon resignation, the outgoing Member may nominate a replacement to
become a Member.
a.	Such nominee shall replace the outgoing Member unless rejected by a
two-thirds majority of active Members.
b.	If the replacement is approved, he shall be appointed to the Board
with the same term of office expiration date as the Member he
replaces.
== Reappointment of Existing Members ==
1. At the expiration of a Member of the Board's term of office, if he
wishes, he may be re-appointed to a new term at the discretion of the
Board. The Board shall vote on the re-appointment by secret ballot;
the vote-taker (the Chair) shall publish the results of the vote to the
Board, but not the individual ballots.
2. If the Chair is himself up for re-appointment, the vote shall be
taken by the Vice-Chair.
3. The member whose reappointment is at issue may cast a ballot in this 
vote as usual.
4. The vote tallies shall not be published to the public, though the
re-appointment itself shall be announced.
== Appointment of New Members ==
1. The Board shall at all times consist of at least three Members.
a. If the number of Members falls to two, then the two Members shall
appoint a third Member.
b. If the number of Members falls to one, that Member shall appoint a
second Member; the two Members will then appoint a third Member.
2. There shall be no upper limit to the number of Members that may
comprise the Board.
3. Except in cases covered by IV(2) or VI(1), appointment of new
Members shall be by two-thirds majority of active Members.
4. How new members are added to the board.
Approved by the the Board, 2006-05-03.
Membership
Board members

==Current membership (May 8, 2020)==
* Jason Evans
* Rayner Lucas
* Tristan Miller
* Marco Moock
==Membership history==
The original "preliminary board" had eleven members (November 21, 2005): 
* Brian Edmonds, Chair
* Yves Bellefeuille
* Joe Bernstein
* James Farrar
* ru igarashi
* Jonathan Kamens
* Thomas Lee
* Martin Moleski
* Barb Pattist
* Dave Sill
* Tim Skirvin
The original members of the B8MB on March 13, 2006:
* Tim Skirvin, Chair
* Yves Bellefeuille
* Joe Bernstein
* Brian Edmonds
* James Farrar
* Jonathan Kamens
* Thomas Lee
* Martin Moleski
* Dave Sill
Elected November 7, 2006:
* Doug McLaren
* Kathy Morgan
* Jeremy Nixon
Elected October 24, 2007:
* Mark Kramer
* Helge Nareid
Elected September 30, 2009:
* Alexander Bartolich
* David E. Ross
* Paul Schleck
Elected October 7, 2011:
*Robert Bonomi
*Rebecca Brown
*Bill Horne
*Howard S Shubs
Elected April 3, 2012:
* Bob Rudd
Elected December, 2012 for terms ending April 1, 2014
* Jeremy Nixon
* David E. Ross
* Paul Schleck
Elected April 1, 2013:
* Rebecca Brown
* Bill Horne
* Thomas Lee 
Elected October 1, 2013:
* Kathy Morgan
* Bob Rudd
* Howard Shubs 
Elected April 1, 2014:
* Jeremy Nixon
* David E. Ross
* Paul Schleck
Elected October 1, 2014:
* Bill Horne
* Thomas Lee
Elected April 1, 2015:
* Jeremy Nixon
* Bob Rudd
Elected October 1, 2015:
* Kathy Morgan
Elected April 25, 2020:
* Jason Evans
* Tristan Miller
Elected May 8, 2020:
* Rayner Lucas 
Elected August 2, 2024:
* Marco Moock
Category:Big-8 Management
Charter for news.admin.announce

News.admin.announce is a forum for important announcements for news administrators. It is a moderated forum, watched over by a team of moderators for added speed. Possible topics for messages include announcements regarding news transport or browsing software, Frequently Asked Questions lists, announcements of new EMP cancellers, announcements of new cancellation criteria, reports that directly relate to the future of Usenet, reports on legal issues that directly affect news administrators such as the Communications Decency Act, and so forth.
News.admin.announce is moderated by a team of moderators. The moderators will approve any message that they feel fits the following criteria:
# The message is an announcement that the moderators feel is important for most or all news administrators.
# The message is formatted for 78 or fewer characters per line, and is easily human readable.
# The message is not a binary, nor will it break standard Usenet readers.
# Followups for the message are set appropriately.
Unapproved posts will be cancelled. At any time, moderators can be added or removed by a majority vote of the then-current moderators.
The news.admin.net-abuse.* hierarchy is for discussion of abuse of Usenet and/or the Internet; it is not for discussion of abuse of groups or individuals on such networks, such as flames, personal attacks, or off- topic messages.
Binaries are specifically prohibited from all groups in the news.admin.* hierarchy, except as examples of other abuse. All messages removed by unauthorized cancels in the hierarchy will be automatically reposted by Dave the Resurrector or a similar program, at the discretion of the group moderator or, for the unmoderated groups, the operator of the resurrector program. Spams, gateway spews, and other attacks on the system itself will be removed as appropriate, following standard Usenet guidelines.
Category:news.admin.announce
Charter for news.groups.proposals

The newsgroup news.groups.proposals is for the announcement, discussion,
and development of proposals for changes to the Big 8 hierarchies, as
documented at:
http://www.big-8.org/
All official discussion of proposals as described in the creation documents
and elsewhere takes place in news.groups.proposals. Proponents with
active RFDs must conduct their discussions in news.groups.proposals.
Discussions in news.groups.proposals generally pertain to specific proposals
based on a recent RFD published in news.announce.newgroups, although a formal RFD is not a prerequisite. Recently
completed proposals may be discussed if, in the judgment of the
moderators, further discussion seems useful, interesting, or informative.
Discussion about the newsgroup creation policies for the Big-8 newsgroup
hierarchies, the Big-8 Management Board, and the history and culture of
the Big-8 and Usenet in general should be posted to news.groups or
elsewhere, unless there is a clear connection to a specific proposal
being discussed in news.groups.proposals.
Crossposting to unmoderated newsgroups relevant to a particular proposal
may be permitted, at the discretion of the moderators. With some
exceptions (such as RFD announcements and FAQs), crossposting to other
moderated groups is not permitted. Content that is not conducive to the
development of a proposal is disallowed, including personal attacks,
derogatory nicknames, repetitive arguments, and flames.
news.groups.proposals is hand-moderated. In addition to the above
restrictions, the following are not allowed:
* Off topic articles, as described above and specifically including:
** Discussion of proposals relating to other hierarchies, such as alt.* or regional hierarchies.
** Articles about "the news" or other world events.
** General discussions not relating to a specific newsgroup proposal.
* Articles with unacceptable content, such as:
** HTML
** Copyright violations
** Excessive quoting
** Threats and/or advocating violence
** Binaries, except PGP signatures, X-Face headers, and other ancillary meta-data
** Personal and/or commercial advertisements, including chain letters, money-making schemes, and EMP spam.
* Attempts to subvert the system, such as:
** Forgery or imitation of a valid e-mail address
** Unauthorized approval headers
** Excessive morphing/nym-shifting
Category:news.groups.proposals
Chat services and pen pals

== How to find a pen pal ==
The newsgroup is not the proper place to hold general conversations. However, there are many other ways and places to find pen pals and chat!
* If you want to test your posting ability, and have real people from the world respond, try the newsgroup .
* If you are looking for friends overseas to correspond, learn about cultures and practice languages with, you may find new friends in . There are posters there from around the world!
* If you're looking for a specific age group, you might try one of these groups:
** 
** 
** 
** 
== Real-time chat ==
There are tons of chat services out there. One good place to start looking is the chat section of the Google directory.
=== Internet Relay Chat ===
IRC offers a worldwide multi-user chat network where people meet to talk in groups or privately. Lots of people can participate in the real time discussions, and the number of topics covered on IRC is endless.
One of the best IRC clients for Windows is called mIRC. If you have a Macintosh, try the Ircle program.
A more detailed guide to IRC is also available.
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This article is based on material authored by members of the Moderation Board and nnq-workers mailing list, particularly by Dennis D. Calhoun (until 2005) and Thor Kottelin (since 2007).
Category:news.newusers.questions
Checkgroups

Checkgroups is the canonical list of Big-8 Newsgroups.
A post is made monthly to news.announce.newgroups listing all of the newsgroups in the Big-8 hierarchies.
Those news administrators who wish to do so can use this list to carry the canonical Big-8 groups (those formally endorsed by the news.announce.newgroups moderators in the past or the Big-8 Management Board at present).
The ISC maintains an ftp index--scroll to the bottom of the directory to find the latest list. 
How to Use Checkgroups and Control Messages.
Comp.infosystems.gemini RFD

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the
unmoderated newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gemini
NEWSGROUPS LINE:
comp.infosystems.gemini, Discussion about new gemini internet protocol
RATIONALE:
The Gemini community largely exists in the form of a mailing list. A newsgroup would be a natural compliment to the existing mailing list as well as a mirror for newsgroup messages. 
This topic has already been proposed to the mailing list community with positive results. 
See: https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/007227.html
CHARTER:
comp.infosystems.gemini is a forum for announcements and conversation within the Gemini communitity. It is an unmoderated forum. Users are encouraged to self-moderate via filters and kill files in their newsreader software.
MODERATION POLICY: unmoderated