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Archive-name: usenet/rec-arts-comics-reviews/welcome rec.arts.comics.reviews (RACR) is a newsgroup for posting reviews of HOW TO POST (This section assumes that you already know how to post to Usenet As RACR is a robomoderated forum, all messages must pass through the If you would like to post regular reviews or columns to RACR, please The robot moderator's posting criteria are simple: followups must be set o The message can be crossposted to *at most* five groups, and all rec.arts.comics.* If you would like to crosspost to another group, please contact the o Followups (with the 'Followup-To' header) must be set to *at most* o The poster must be pre-approved by the moderator. ORIGINAL CHARTER The following charter was set down in 1997, when the group was created. The purpose of this newsgroup is to review items, materials, and events - Comic books, strips, political cartoons, and their compilations The following policies will apply: - Advertisements, large binaries, SPAM, general announcements, - Posts to the group should begin with a Subject keyword such - Posts to the group may be crossposted to other discussion groups - Hierarchy-wide pre-approved FAQ posts, such as the rec.arts.comics The full history of the group is available at: ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec/rec.arts.com... CURRENT MODERATION INFORMATION RACR is run by 'The Phantom ModBot', a Verimod moderation bot written by All posts that go through the moderation 'bot are signed with pgpmoose. Tim Skirvin took over moderation duties for RACR from Peter Juul in Moderator: tskir...@killfile.org (Tim Skirvin) Archives are available through groups.google.com. Tim has also written a
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comic books and comic-related materials, including conventions and
software. It can also be used for "comic journalism" and other such
topics that would be of interest in the same way as reviews of individual
books. RACR is a robo-moderated forum, controlled by a moderation 'bot
that automatically approves messages from a set whitelist of posters.
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newsgroups in general.)
moderation bot before they hit the network. Users are generally
"whitelisted" for the group - ie, individual users are given the right to
post by the moderator.
contact Tim Skirvin (tskir...@killfile.org).
to an appropriate newsgroup, and a subject tag must be set accordingly.
Methods of determination:
groups must be on the following list:
rec.toys.transformers.moderated
moderator.
one newsgroup. If followups are not set, then the 'bot will default
to rec.arts.comics.misc.
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It is not any longer fully accurate, but is presented here for historical
reasons.
normally addressed and discussed within the rec.arts.comics.* hierarchy.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Movie/TV/prose adaptations of comic-book characters and stories
- Biographies or histories of characters, pros, and the industry
- rec.arts.comics.creative "issues" or "titles"
- Industry-related publications and magazines
- Subscription companies and services
- Archival/collecting materials
- Cataloguing software
- Comics conventions
and discussion/followup posts are not permitted in this group.
They will be rejected. If a post begins with "Re: " then it is
treated as a followup and will be returned.
as REVIEW:, PREVIEW:, or COLUMN:, which will be chosen by the
moderator. The moderator may add additional keywords as they
become necessary. The moderator may add an appropriate keyword
to the subject line if none is provided.
or to other appropriate *.reviews groups. Followups should be set
to three or fewer appropriate discussion groups.
general FAQ, will be posted if approved by the .info group. Other
FAQ posts (such as the charter of the group, or a guide to review
style) will be approved at moderator's discretion.
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Tim Skirvin back in 2005 and operated on killfile.org.
If a post does not have a cryptographically sound X-Auth header, then the
post was not approved by The Phantom ModBot, and will be shortly cancelled by
another bot.
November 2005. Current contact information:
Contact Address: racr+cont...@killfile.org
Article Submission Address: racr+sub...@killfile.org
public web interface to the group, available at: