Rob Morley wrote:
>
> The charters of uk.comp.home-networking and uk.comp.homebuilt forbid
> advertising.
>
> http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.comp.home-networking.html
> http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.comp.homebuilt.html
Profuse apologies!
I had only checked the charter for uk.comp.training which, as posted to
the group by
(E-Mail Removed) on 23/01/2005 00:58 states:-
> Advertising
> Short advertisement for trainers or or items of interest to
> trainers are welcome provided that they are aimed at UK trainers
> and UK training.
>
> Advertisements must be less than 15 lines of text (including the
> .sig block) and must not be posted more than once every month.
> Ads must also be identified by the characters 'AD' appearing at
> the start of the subject line. Other appropriate, and short, ads
> are also welcome but these should be short and infrequently
> posted.
>
> Should more information need to be conveyed in any ad posted in
> uk.comp.training, the ad should contain URLs to this nformation.
>
> ALL long or frequently posted adverts are unwelcome in this
> newsgroup.
[proposed by Thomas Lee on 22/02/96 to uk.net.news.config,
uk.net.news.announce, uk.comp.training]
while the webpage
http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.comp.training.html
modified 20 October 2000 11:23:00 states:-
> Advertising
> No.
So, I wonder where the Demon bot keeps its version.
http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.comp.os.linux.html states:-
> Advertising
> Short (<20 lines) announcements of events and advertising from manufacturers and resellers of Linux-related products (e.g. distributions) in the UK are permitted. Advertising aimed at a non-UK-specific audience is not permitted.
The charters of uk.comp.homebuilt and uk.comp.home-networking were last
posted on 19/08/04 (as per the webpages) and I should have done that
search this morning - Sorry!
Hope this will help to clear up the situation for others.
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Mike
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