The AltBinariesNospamTeenfem FAQ:
Posting, Requests, Spam, and Spam-fighting
(by ectoplasm, including contributions from the now defunct ABNT Message Board)
The full FAQ below is posted weekly
and a "mini-FAQ" is posted daily.
Questions about the group can be sent to
[email protected]
Cancels in the retro-moderated group are posted weekly at:
http://abnt-retro.home.ml.org
A. Posting
Appropriate Posts
Nuisance Posts
B. Requesting Reposts or Help
Nuisance Requests
C. Spam
D. Spam-Fighting
Condensed Spam-fighting Instructions for Beginners
Advanced Spam-fighting
Converted to HTML by eVolVed
ABNT is a newsgroup for individual collectors of full series of
high-quality images of nude women, as defined in more detail below. It was created to
avoid the "spam" floods and crossposts of commercial web/sex sites, which have
cluttered many of the Usenet binary newsgroups. If your posts are free scans/images that
do not contain the URL of your commercial image enterprise, then you are welcome here.
Posts with such URLs in either the image or the NNTP headers are almost always cancelled,
as are other off-topic posts as defined below.
ABNT and the companion discussion group ABNT.D are retro-moderated, meaning that
inappropriate posts are cancelled using a standard NNTP format by a group of devoted
regulars (the "RMs"). "Inappropriate posts" are defined in more detail
below.
The parent newsgroup ABNT is for binary image files only:
no multimedia files (avi, mpg, etc.), no text posts, and no requests.
The sub-group ABNT.D is for discussion and requests only:
no binary image files. Requests, complaints and comments belong in ABNT.D. Small programs
(utilities) useful in downloading, viewing and cataloging image files also may be posted
in ABNT.D.
What types of posts are most frequently cancelled by the RMs in abnt?
Spamvertisements (commercial posts with URLs in the image or headers designed to lure
viewers to a
commercial image pay site).
Crossposts (posts to more than one newsgroup).
Floods of more than 100 files at a time (in a 24 hr. period).
Posts of apparently underage subjects (kiddie porn).
Phone sex/Porno Web site/e-mail trade/MMF advertisements.
Any non-binary posts (comments, questions, flames).
Nuisance image posts ("Who is this girl?", "Cute teen!") with no
filenames or index in the subject header.
Complaints about cancelled posts can be made to the RMs at abnt @ usa . net, or in abnt.d.
But if your post violated the FAQ, don't expect any sympathy.
If your ISP does not get the discussion newsgroup abnt.d, then ask them to add it, or
switch to an ISP with better service."
The only thing I have found on the Internet that I could
honestly say I hate is
Usenet SPAM!!
(My definition may be little different than what yours may be.)
Commercial advertisers have taken over the public domain we call "Usenet"
I, and others who make up the newsgroup, feel that enough is enough.
Anyone remember when there wasn't SPAM?
If you can answer "yes" to that, then you understand this:
"Usenet was here long before SPAM and no one liked the
invasion."
Ignoring SPAM leads to the decay of Usenet and eventually it's
demise.
I had the idea for this group after seeing tons of others go to Hell.
Fortunately, others felt the same and boosted the creation process.
We've tried it the civilized way, we attempted to reach their
"inner child"
and reason with them and nothing you could suggest has worked.
"0-Tolerance" is the only way to even put a dent in SPAM and
will be practiced here to the fullest.
In short, no one will win the war if we don't band together.
They will force us from group to new group until Usenet is a
wasteland of empty groups.
(Except for SPAM of course, the cockroach of Usenet.)
- eVolVed