Rules : hamster.fr.* is the french-speaking sub-hierarchy of hamster.* (and not for the French only !). 1- Administration - rules hamster.fr.admin is the newsgroup where the evolution of hamster.fr.* is discussed about. Available actions are : - - to create a newsgroup. - - to remove a newsgroup. - - to change a newsgroup's name, its status (moderated / not moderated) and/or another point of its charter. - - to replace several newsgroups by a single group (fusion) or a newsgroup by several groups (scission). - - to change the administration process. If somebody makes a proposal, the discussion must be during, at least, two weeks in hamster.fr.admin (and only in this group). The proposal must have in the subject, the double-flag [AAD/RfD] for french-expression "Appel À Discussion" / english-expression "Request for Discussion" and its purpose. It must be cross-posted in hamster.fr.annonces and hamster.fr.admin with a follow-up to hamster.fr.admin. There must have at least two months between the same (or nearly) proposal. If there are no serious protests against the proposal, the "sub-maintainer" of hamster.fr.* will report the result of this discussion to the hierarchy maintainer who will then yield out the necessary control-messages. In the case of serious troubles during the discussions, a special vote-process could be organized (see below). a - Creation and scission : To respect the individual common use of the audience, it won't be possible to create a group (single creation or several in a scission) with a theme which doesn't have a traffic of, at least, 20 articles a day in another group of hamster.fr.* This limit of 20 articles a day is regarding, at least, one month. The proposal must contain the charter(s) of the proposed group(s) with its : - - name - - description - - status - - object - - reason(s) (here, at least, it must specify the traffic of the proposed theme). b - Removal The proposal must contain the name of the concerned group(s) and serious reasons to remove or fusion it (for example : empty, scarcely a few articles, only containing spams or cross-posted articles). c - Fusion A fusion is like several removals and a single creation. So, it must respect both the creation and removal process. A fusion is possible, for example, when several groups have too small traffics (but with added traffics respecting the limit of 20 articles per day) or if there are too many cross-posts between them. d - Changing one or several points of a charter The proposal must contain the old charter of the interested group, the change(s) with their reason(s). For a change of status from "not moderated" to "moderated" : it must contain the name of the moderator(s). e - Changing administration process The proposal must contain the change(s) and some serious reasons with details. To avoid troubles and ill-meaning proposals, the special vote-process with qualified majority will always apply. The special vote-process consists in a vote by email. Simple majority determine the result to newsgroup's actions and qualified majority (1/3-2/3) to modify rules of hamster.fr.* Only persons who regularly participate to hamster.fr.* could be voting. This means that the only votes from people who wrote at least 5 articles in theme, on hamster.fr.* (except hamster.fr.admin) during the last three months will be retained. 2 - General-rules When general rules of this subhierarchy depends on rules of Hamster.ALL, it will always change without discussing in the subhierarchy (only announcements) to be always agree with general hierarchy-rules. a - Language Hamster.fr.* is the french-speaking sub-hierarchy in hamster.*. It's possible for non french-speaking people to write in any other language which doesn't have its own sub-hierarchy or for the general announces about hamster.* by cross-posting with hamster.general. It's better to choose english in such a case. b - Format Every article must be written using the ISO-8859-1 charset in 8bits encoding (7bits us-ascii is allowed too). ISO-8859-15 may be used without using characters which are not in ISO-8859-15. HTML-Postings, Base64 and attachments (include Vcard) are strictly forbidden and can be cancelled by anyone. Quoted-Printable is also prohibited but not cancellable. The headers must be written in us-ascii/7bits. c - Crosspost and multipost Multi-posting (it means posting the same article separately in several groups) is strictly forbidden and can be cancelled by anyone. Cross-posting inside hamster.fr.*, with hamster.general or with a french-speaking newsgroup is allowed only with a follow-up to a single group or to Poster. Without it, a cancel is possible by anyone. The number of groups is limited to 8 even with a follow-up to. Cross-posting across another sub-hierarchy of hamster.* isn't possible even with a follow-up to, except announces about hamster.general or documents about hamster but only if the article is in-theme for all concerned groups *and* in all the languages of groups concerned by the crosspost - or - in english. People must be carefully with the group in Followup-To: the answers must write in languages used in this group. In any another case, cross-posts are not allowed and can be cancelled by anyone. d - Announces, spam, MMF and others These articles are forbidden and can be cancelled by anyone : - - Announces (commercial or not) except announces about Hamster.ALL and Web-Sites about Hamster (near or far). - - MMF, Spew, dung anonymous and any advertises. e - Miscellaneous - - Signature must begin with the standard separator "-- " and mustn't exceed 4 lines with 72 characters. - - Answer must be after the quoted text which must be reduced to minimum for understand the answer and its context. - Full name is not required but exotic nicknames like "Darth Vader" or "Bugs Bunny" are not really recommended. Display names should be constant (no morphing or nym-shifting). - If Email address in From can be invalid in rules of Hamster.ALL, the From address of an article is invalid then the domain part of that address must end in ".invalid" (e.g. "address@from.invalid") and there must be a Reply-To header with a valid address. - - Newsgroups are not IRC channel, so abbreviations must be limited.