Charte de soc.genealogy.computing

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soc.genealogy.computing is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for
creation by 480:94 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 3 Nov 1994.

For your newsgroups file:
soc.genealogy.computing	Genealogical computing & net resources.

The charter, culled from the call for votes:

Discussion of computer-based genealogical tools/resources of any type.

Software:
    popular programs, tafel generators, chart utilities, GEDCOM format,
    OCR software.

Hardware:
    computers, printers, scanners, and laptop/software combinations,

On-line resources:
    related gophers, webs, ftp sites, lists.
    library catalogs.
    geographic or history servers.
    data archives (eg. tafel repositories)

Other computer related resources:
    CD based data.
    Other electronic forums; BBS's, Fidonet, etc.

Meta-discussions concerning the entire soc.genealogy.* hierarchy.
    periodic posting of key FAQs and charters.
    how to access the archives of sister groups.
    problems with or suggestions for any sister group.

Since computing includes on-line resources, and this certainly includes
Usenet, discussion about the soc.genealogy.* groups themselves is
considered appropriate.

Announcements of recent availability of and discussion of shareware or
commercial software and services are acceptable, but advertisements from
vendors, including "for-sale" posts from individuals are not.

In general, if the poster expects to gain a financial profit from a
post, the post should go elsewhere - probably to misc.forsale or biz.*

This restriction is intended to comply with the acceptable use policies
of many non-commercial sites, and with the policies of the mailing list
listserver site at gitvm1.gatech.edu.