Newsgroups: alt.config,control Control: newgroup alt.assassination.jfk moderated Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.assassination.jfk Approved: jmcadams@shell.core.com Expires: Sender: BOOSTER alt.assassination.jfk has been in existence since December 1997, and has recently averaged about 100 posts per day. alt.assassination.jfk is a moderated newsgroup. Group submission address: jmcadams@shell.core.com Moderator contact address: jmcadams@shell.core.com For your newsgroups file: alt.assassination.jfk JFK Assassination Discussion. (Moderated) History Alt.assassination.jfk is the successor to alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated, which was highly successful for a year and a half, and then succumbed to disagreement among the moderators. The "noise level" was extremely low, due to the fact that this was a moderated group, and the chronic flames that afflict alt.conspiracy.jfk didn't make it to alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated. Alt.assassination.jfk continues this tradition. The Moderators Peter Fokes has worn many hats during his 49 years, including business journalist, communications media specialist, freelance writer and stock trader. He attended Carleton University in Ottawa and the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies before joining a Canadian media firm in the early 1970s. He brings a Canadian perspective to the JFK assassination debate, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. He maintains a website directory of Toronto links at http://www.toronto.hm, and is a volunteer editor with The Open Directory Project at http://www.dmoz.org. Since watching Oswald gunned down in the Dallas Police Department basement, he has had an ongoing fascination with the controversies surrounding the assassination of JFK. He has a conspiracy orientation but believes the truth has remained a mystery for so long because there were "few" in the know but many helping to shut the door to a proper investigation. John McAdams is Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Among the courses he teaches at Marquette is one on the assassination. He runs The Kennedy Assassination Home Page (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm). McAdams believes that Oswald alone was responsible for killing Kennedy. McAdams' web page has recently attracted over 6,000 visitors per day. His page offers a direct link to the group. CHARTER AND MODERATION POLICY This group will be for the purpose of providing an area for serious discussion and research of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The group will be moderated to prevent the noise and chronic personal attacks which have plagued alt.conspiracy.jfk and made it nearly useless as a vehicle for intelligent research. Questions surrounding JFK's death have made this one of the most talked-about and controversial issues of our generation. This will be the one usenet group which deals seriously with this important topic. The co-moderators will implement the following policy: 1. The group should always be co-moderated by at least two people representing opposite sides of the conspiracy question. In the event of conflict among moderators, the majority of moderators shall prevail on any issue -- including firing a moderator and/or changing the charter. Should there be an even number of moderators, and a "tie vote," and the conflict prove intractable, the group will be dissolved. 2. However, all moderators must agree to reject a post to the group. 3. No posts will ever be rejected on the basis of a poster's opinion on the case. 4. Moderators have no responsibility whatsoever for the factual accuracy of what is posted. Readers of the group will have to decide for themselves that is "accurate" and "inaccurate." 5. Posters may not levy personal attacks against other posters. Ideas may be vigorously discussed, but attacks on ideas should be phrased to make it clear that the poster is not being attacked. Any post whose predominant subject or theme is another poster rather than the assassination is likely to be rejected. (Positive, supportive, or solicitous messages, however, may be accepted at the moderators' discretion.) 6. Any suggestions or requests for illegal activities will be disallowed. 7. Posts that are offensive on the basis of gratuitous vulgarity, racism, or sexism or other offensive forms of expression will be disallowed. No substantive argument about the assassination will ever be deemed "offensive," but the means of expressing it might. 8. Messages which are off topic or devoid of case-related information will be disallowed. 9. SPAM's will be disallowed. 10. Although aliases are generally allowed on the newsgroup, the moderators may reject posts impersonating an identifiable person when the impersonation risks misleading readers about the person. 11. It may often seem appropriate to post binaries to the group: images of photographic evidence or waveform audio of sound recordings, for example. Moderators will cross-post all such submissions to alt.binaries.pictures or some other appropriate binaries group. Posters are urged to avoid excessively large binary posts. Particularly, they should post only moderate sized graphic images, use JPEG compression effectively, and use RealMedia or similar compression for audio and video clips.