The ch.market.* Newsgroups ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Notes concerning clarity of articles in the newsgroup: - Please place for sale and wanted ads for computer equipment only in ch.market.comp and not in ch.market or the ch.comp.* newsgroups. - No crossposting[1] within ch.market.*. - No MIME and no binary files (programs, image files) - No HTML in the newsgroups, not even as an alternative. - Please do not use your "vcard" in messages. Acceptable are signatures[2] of up to a maximum of 4 lines. - Only quote as much as is really needed. - Do not quote entire postings and threads and do not quote or attach the original poster's text after your own. Just quote the most important sentences or comments. - Mark the text you are quoting by typing the special quote mark (>) before each quoted sentence. Do not use tabs or initials. - Your lines shouldn't exceed approximately 70 characters across. - Leave an empty line between the quoted text and your own comments. [1] Crossposting: Sending the identical newsgroup article to a number of Newsgroups, e.g. "Newsgroups: ch.group1,ch.group2". The article is only transmitted once from news system to news system. Crossposting should rarely be used. Under no circumstances should you post identical newsgroup articles singly to various newsgroups. [2]Signature: A short addition of maximum 4 lines, which is separated from the body of the text by the character " " containing short information about the author, homepage, profession, favourite quotation etc. ===================================================================== Please use the correct newsgroup when posting (and use only one for that particular posting!). In Usenet, and especially in the ch.market.* newsgroups the repeated posting of the same article is frowned upon. In general use "V:" to denote that you are selling something (means "Verkaufe") and "S:" to denote that you are looking for something (means "Suche"). For sale and wanted ads from countries other than Switzerland have no place here, unless they directly pertain to Switzerland, or they are posted from a directly neighbouring region. Here is a description of the currently existing newsgroups in the ch.market.hierarchy: ch.market.comp Sell/Buy computers, expansions and peripherals ch.market.jobs Offer/Want work ch.market Sell/Buy various ch.market.comp For selling and buying computer, peripherals, software, hardware, computer literature, training courses and anything else directly pertaining to computers and which is only of interest to computer users. The item for sale or wanted should be clearly visible in the subject line. If several different items are offered, then the subject line should at least show the computer system. ch.market.jobs Offers and want ads for work and jobs belong in this newsgroup. ch.market - For small ads to sell or swap various items which are not covered by special newsgroups. Possible subjects are - sale / wanted of various items - House, car etc. to rent - Commercial notices. Please note the word "notices" in the last item. Numerous pages and several kilobytes of hype about goods does not belong in this newsgroup. Do not post the following in ch.market : -Sale and want ads for computers, software, hardware, computer literature... etc. -> ch.market.comp -Jobs and other offers of work and jobs wanted -> ch.market.jobs ====================================================================== General information concerning the ch.* hierarchy and general rules for the publication of articles to Usenet newsgroups can be found in the monthly posting to ch.* newsgroups and FAQ by Felix Rauch as well as at the URLs given below. http://www.use-net.ch/Usenet/ http://www.faqs.org/usenet/ ====================================================================== Last Edit: Tuesday. 8. September 1998 The original charters for the newer ch.* newsgroups as well as various texts by Boris Piwinger (3.14@detebe.org) and Felix Rauch (felix@nice.ch) were used for this "Mini-FAQ". The author of this text is Benjamin Weidmann (b.weidmann@pobox.com). Translation from german to english by Dane Kurth. Corrections, additions and translations of this article are welcome. [Followup-To: ch.admin] | |
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