This document covers the charter for the use of the moderated New 
Zealand Newsgroup nz.biz.misc. 


Introduction
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The intention of nz.biz.misc is to provide an outlet for New Zealand 
organisations (including sole traders) to post commercial advertisements 
to the New Zealand Internet's USENET news. Commercial advertisements are 
not allowed in nz.general, nz.comp or nz.wanted, please confine them to 
nz.biz.misc.

Submissions should be sent to nz-biz-misc@usenet.net.nz.
The moderators can be contacted via nbm-requests@usenet.net.nz

Guidelines
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1) The moderator will only post messages where the poster is an
   identifiable New Zealand organisation (no individuals unless they
   are operating under the status as a sole trader). 

   The organisation must be selling the product or service inside New 
   Zealand, and that organisation must be contactable via the Internet. No 
   messages will me posted from 'my friend who doesn't have access to the
   Internet'. Postings by individuals will be pointed to nz.wanted.

2) Postings of products or services which do not change (eg
   price lists) will only be posted at most every two weeks. 

3) Advertisements submitted must be for a legal product or service,
   and any advertisements which are suspicious in the moderator's
   opinion will be refused. 

4) Advertisements must be submitted with the subject starting with
   one of the following keywords:

   Keyword.              Meaning.
   ========================================================================
   [G]                   Good. (ie product with physical form, ie computer 
                         hardware, book, car)

   [S]                   Service. (ie consultancy, advertising space)

   [G/S]                 Combination of the above.

   [J]                   Job.

   [WWW]                 Commercial World Wide Web or online resource.


   The moderator is entitled to insert keyword information into the
   subject heading. Extra information may be inserted into the body
   to further clarify the message. This is normally only done in
   consultation with the advertiser.

5) Advertisements should NOT be cross-posted to other areas, and those
   that are, will be rejected. This is an attempt to keep commercial
   advertisements where they belong - in nz.biz.misc.
  
6) At a minimum an advertisement will provide: 

   * An email contact address and the name of a contact person.
   * The name of the company advertising.
   * A date at which the offer expires (if applicable)

7) This advertisement should not contain any characters which are not
   in the ASCII (127 characters) Latin-1 set (eg. graphics characters
   which will not display on most telnet terminals).

   An exception to this would be characters which are intended to
   enhance when reading in a language other than English (such as
   Chinese or Maori).

   Messages containing encoded text, pictures or binaries of any sort
   will be rejected.
 

Rules for the Moderators
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Moderation will be done through the alias nz-biz-misc@usenet.net.nz

  Moderators are expected to process articles within 48 hours of receipt.
Moderators who will be temporarily unavailable for longer than two days
will notify the newsgroup and the other moderators so that their names
may be removed from the list of active moderators for the duration.

  If the number of moderators falls below three, volunteers will be
solicited by the current moderators in consultation with the newsgroup
participants.

  New moderators must have both the majority approval of nz.biz.misc 
participants and unanimous approval of all existing moderators. A 
moderator may be relieved of her/his position by majority approval of the 
newsgroup participants and/or unanimous approval of the other moderators. 
Upon moderator resignation or removal, the newsgroup will be solicited 
for a replacement moderator.
 
The current moderators are:

Jeremy Bowen   
Russell Dwyer   
Vince Ingram   
Simon Lyall   
Richard Vowles