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"karel" wrote:

As I pointed out before, I never saw a charter for
this place news://rec.aviation.homebuilt
strange though I found that.

It's not unusual for the charter for a usenet group to be
lost, but to be formed in the first place required a charter
and a vote. The charter for r.a.h came from the original
charter for rec.aviation before it split.

Much stranger is it to find people like Todd Pattist
(who has appeared well-educated and polite)
referring to "rules" unsubstantiated

The rules of all usenet forums include a requirement that
people stay on-topic and not post commercial messages
unless the charter specifically permits such.

Most forums I follow have a charter, posted weekly,
ut I never saw such a thing round here

That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, nor does it mean you can
post commercial messages, nor post off-topic. I agree we
can dispute what on-topic means in the absence of research
to find the lost charter, but Gore's claims or non-claims
relative to the Internet are not going to be on-topic. under
rec.aviation's old charter or r.a.h's split off charter.

And do not believe providers can impose rules.

They can't. They can only be required to restrict their own
customers and they can only be cut off from access to usenet
if they fail to do so.

Bull****. Mine will alllow m to post anything I want here, including
binaries and "the Cabal" won't touch them for it.


Bertie