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     rec.radio.amateur.* discussion newsgroups for crossposting, but not   
     both.   
      
   - Any FAQ or informational posting approved by the   
     rec.answers/news.answers moderation team that is also crossposted to   
     any rec.radio.* newsgroup (besides just rec.radio.info) is also   
     automatically pre-approved for rec.radio.info.  See below for more   
     information.   
      
   If you post to another moderated group, it may be better to make special   
   arrangements with both moderators before posting by contacting us at our   
   administrivia addresses.   
      
   In addition, cross-posts do not take up extra space; modern newsreaders   
   can be configured to show you cross-posted articles only once anyway;   
   not everybody reads rec.radio.info; and rec.radio.info was never meant   
   to reduce the volume of the regular discussion newsgroups. But keep in   
   mind that some of the mail gateways may filter out the informational   
   postings (at request of the subscribers) to keep the load down.   
      
   You decide.   
      
    -- I have a regular posting with timely information, can I make   
       arrangements to help speed up delivery by posting directly from my   
       site?   
      
   Yes, there is! It may take a bit of chatter with the moderator, but we   
   are willing to take responsible people and provide them the means of   
   posting the articles directly from their site. We will try everything we   
   can as we fully realize that DX (distant signal) and astronomical data   
   can be somewhat transitory. We are also willing to allow regular posters   
   of information the same courtesy, even if the information is not as   
   timely.   
      
   We refer to this as self-moderation, which is partly based on the model   
   for rec.answers/news.answers. This requires cooperation and good will to   
   be beneficial to the community in the rec.radio.* hierarchy.   
      
   If you are currently maintaining (or plan to maintain) a radio-related   
   periodic information posting, you may wish to consider crossposting it   
   to rec.answers/news.answers.  Postings that are approved by the   
   rec.answers/news.answers moderators for this treatment are automatically   
   pre-approved for crossposting to rec.radio.info (as the news.answers   
   requirements are far more rigorous than the requirements this newsgroup   
   ever plans to use).  For more information about this option, consult the   
   appropriate information articles and posting guidelines in   
   rec.answers/news.answers.   
      
   Realize also, that even if your post is not approved for   
   rec.answers/news.answers, it can still be approved for rec.radio.info.   
   The intention is not so much to get every last bit of radio-related   
   information on rec.answers/news.answers, but rather to provide an   
   alternative avenue of approval (as well as grandfather existing   
   maintainers of radio-related information and spare them additional   
   bureaucratic hurdles).  Again, crossposting to either rec.radio.info or   
   rec.answers/news.answers, both, or neither, is at the discretion of the   
   poster (subject to the approval of the moderators).  You decide what is   
   most appropriate for your article.   
      
   Please remember that as an information maintainer, you are not alone.   
   There are many others on the net who maintain and post periodic   
   information postings, using various intermediate-to-advanced features of   
   Usenet (usually via automated tools).  Various degrees of technical   
   support and general hand-holding are available from many Usenet   
   veterans.  Send us some E-mail describing your needs to our   
   administrative address below, and we'll try to help, or at least refer   
   you to the right knowledgeable individual(s).   
      
    -- And Follow-ups?   
      
   If the only newsgroup you have specified is rec.radio.info, then the   
   Followup-To: field will always be set to poster. If you do not want   
   this, you must supply a Followup-To line of your own, and we will honor   
   that one, as long as it is a subset of the original Newsgroups line.   
      
   If you specify newsgroups to cross-post to, then the Followup-To field   
   will be set to include all the cross-posted groups, excepting   
   rec.radio.info itself.  Again, if you do not wish this behavior, supply   
   your own Followup-To line.   
      
   We maintain other standards on the various RFC-1036 (news transport)   
   header lines. For example, if the article is appropriate for passing   
   into the Packet Radio Information Network, we encapsulate the Packet   
   Bulletin Identifier (BID) in the Message-ID: news header line indicating   
   the machine of origin as the ampr.org domain:   
      
    Message-ID: <$opa.55.1994@ampr.org>   
      
   where the Packet Radio BID, in this example, is `$OPA.55', and it was   
   posted in the year 1994, because some of the Bid numbers are cycled   
   yearly. Hopefully, this can be used as a key to re-introduce the   
   articles for the Packet Radio network. Also, if the article is a repost   
   of an already existing information article in the rec.radio heirarchy,   
   we ensure that the References: header line is linked to that previously   
   posted article. This also helps to tag articles, and may be used for   
   additional filtering if needed.   
      
   Since the articles are archived, please use the Summary and Keywords   
   header lines to help one search for your article.   
      
    -- Why have I received no reply from you?   
      
   We never reject anything in silence, and we make a point of it to answer   
   all our mail. However, E-mail, like a brain cell, can and does get lost,   
   every now and again.   
      
   So, if you send us something, and you don't see it appear it   
   rec.radio.info, and you still have not heard from us in reply after say,   
   five days, you can be pretty sure that either your mail never reached   
   us, or that our answer has never reached you. In that case, please try   
   again (We will filter out duplicates).   
      
   Please direct any comments, questions, or criticisms about this article   
   to rec-radio-info-request@panix.com.   
      
   (Adapted, with permission, from the original article written by Mark   
   Salyzyn, AG4YD, ex-VE6MGS.)   
      
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