From ion@falcon.cc.ukans.edu Mon May 22 12:06:14 EDT 1995 Article: 2 of comp.robotics.research Newsgroups: comp.robotics.research Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!news.mathworks.com!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!news From: ion@falcon.cc.ukans.edu (Iain Shigeoka) Subject: [ADMIN] The comp.robotics.research Charter Message-ID: Summary: Rev. 1.0 (Please read) Keywords: guidelines Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: tera.cs.umn.edu Reply-To: ion@falcon.cc.ukans.edu (Iain Shigeoka) Organization: Univ. of Kansas Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 01:47:16 GMT Approved: hougen@cs.umn.edu, crr@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca Expires: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:00:00 GMT Lines: 233 Charter for comp.robotics.research (Revision 1.0 May 13, 1995) TABLE OF CONTENTS 0.0 Introduction 1.0 Charter 2.0 Moderator Information 3.0 Moderation Policy 3.1 Keywords 3.2 Submission guidelines: 3.3 Crossposting articles 3.4 Excessive "noise" policy 3.5 Moderator comments 3.6 Followup-to: header 3.7 Anonymous posting 3.8 Moderator conflict resolution 3.9 Moderator replacement 4.0 Other information resources and archives. 0.0 INTRODUCTION Welcome to comp.robotics.research. Throughout the rest of this document comp.robotics.research will be referred to as CRR. This is a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of ongoing and proposed university, government, and industrial research in the field of robotics. Please refer to the moderation policy before making any submissions to CRR. This charter will be posted to the newsgroup monthly. Submissions: crr@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca Meta-discussions: crr-request@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca 1.0 CHARTER Comp.robotics.research is a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of ongoing, and proposed university, government, and industrial research in the field of robotics. Appropriate material includes short presentations and discussions of significant research results, requests for collaboration on research projects, descriptions of ongoing research projects, and new or unique equipment, Requests for Proposals, Calls for Papers, Conference and short course announcements, announcements of position vacancies, and announcements of the availability of materials at Gopher, WWW, and FTP sites. 2.0 MODERATOR INFORMATION This newsgroup is currently co-moderated by: Martin Boyer Iain Shigeoka Backup moderators for CRR are: Wesley Scott Dean Hougen To reach the moderators, send email to the meta-discussion address (crr-request@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca). 3.0 MODERATION POLICY The moderation policy for CRR has been developed to facilitate an effective forum for professionals to discuss robotics research issues. These guidelines are open to improvements. Suggestions and comments are welcome. 3.1 Keywords CRR uses several keywords in the Subject: heading, enclosed in brackets, to denote special articles. These keywords should be prepended to articles by the author where appropriate. The moderators will also prepend a keyword to articles when they feel it is necessary. Normal "discussion" articles do NOT use a keyword. This is the default. The following keywords are currently used in CRR: [ADMIN] - Used exclusively by the moderators to inform the readership of important news regarding CRR. [FAQ] - Denotes FAQ's and other informational digests. [Q] - Questions that lend themselves to a single answer as opposed to a discussion. This also makes them good candidates for inclusion in the CRR FAQ. [CFP] - Call for Papers [CONF] - Conference and short course announcements [ANNOUNCE] - To announce position openings, new info sites (WWW, FTP, Etc.), and to alert readers to other "happenings". 3.2 Submission guidelines: Authors that wish to post to CRR should email their articles to the submission address (crr@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca). The moderators of CRR expect to act as "filters" not censors. Their job is to keep out irrelevant articles and cut down on excessive "noise" in the newsgroup. Articles submitted to CRR will be: 1) accepted, as is 2) accepted, with revisions 3) declined, but encouraged to be resubmitted 4) declined Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection through email. Declined articles will be returned to the author along with a short note detailing why the article was rejected. Articles will be declined for the following reasons: 1) The article does not fall within the CRR charter. 2) There are copyright or reprint permission problems. 3) The question has previously been answered. The poster will be referred to the FAQ. 4) The article contains excessive "noise". See section 3.4 below for more information. 5) The message targets one person and should be emailed. 6) The article is a chainletter, flame, etc... 7) The article contains blatant commercialism. This will be handled on a case by case basis. In general we are looking for "Information, not promotion". 3.3 Crossposting articles Due to technical difficulties, crossposting will not be honored for articles submitted to CRR at the present time. Accepted articles will be posted to CRR but will NOT be crossposted to other newsgroups. We hope to support crossposting in the near future. Authors who attempt to crosspost to CRR will be notified. 3.4 Excessive "noise" policy In order to maintain an efficient forum, the moderators of CRR feel it is necessary to reduce the amount of non-essential "noise" often present in Usenet articles. This noise generally consists of unnecessarily long signatures and excessive quoting of previous posts. We request that author signatures be kept to a minimum. Four lines should be more than enough space. In addition, authors should only quote information directly relevant to their own article. Articles containing excessive noise will be declined. The author will be encouraged to resubmit the article if the noise is removed. For a general guideline, authors should investigate the informational posts in news.announce.newusers. In particular, the following postings may be useful: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Hints on writing style for Usenet 3.5 Moderator comments Moderators will occasionally inject short comments into articles. These comments will generally be placed at the end of the article so as not to interrupt the flow of an author's thoughts. This will generally be done to facilitate the discussion. For example, if the author makes a vague reference to an FTP site, the moderator may inject a comment giving the site address and download directory. Moderators will use brackets to denote their comments. Each comment will end with the moderator's initials. [This is an example of a moderator comment. -IS] 3.6 Followup-to: header The Followup-to: header will be pointed back to the submission address and not to the poster. Authors should configure the Reply-to: and From: headers for personal email response. 3.7 Anonymous posting The moderators will not anonymously post articles to CRR or any other newsgroup. Articles submitted anonymously to CRR will, in almost all cases, be declined. 3.8 Moderator conflict resolution Any conflicts arising between moderators or between the moderators and the readership shall be resolved by a neutral third party. At the present time, no set procedure has been established for doing this. Until this is done, the temporary moderators will have the responsibility and authority to arbitrate and decide the proper course of action. 3.9 Moderator replacement If a moderator can no longer moderate CRR or retires, the remaining co-moderator will act as sole moderator until a replacement can be found. If both moderators leave, a temporary moderator will act as sole moderator until a replacement can be found. 4.0 Other information resources and archives. At the present time no archive exists for CRR. One will be created as soon as possible. In addition, CRR is looking for volunteers to compile FAQ's for inclusion in the archives. Any ideas or works in progress should be reported to crr-request@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca so that your efforts can be coordinated with others. This will hopefully prevent you from duplicating someone else's work. The comp.robotics archive is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.brown.edu. A wais searchable index of the archive is also available (wais://ftp.cs.brown.edu:8001/comp.robotics). Kevin Dowling currently maintains the excellent comp.robotics FAQ. It is available online through the URL's: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~nivek/faq/TOC.html ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/ (Get parts 1-5) or through a mailserver: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu. ---------------------------------------------------- Charter for comp.robotics.research, (c) Copyright Iain Shigeoka 1995 All rights reserved. *************************************************** * Iain Shigeoka: ion@falcon.cc.ukans.edu * * http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~ion * *************************************************** Article 1 of comp.robotics.research: Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!news From: ion@falcon.cc.ukans.edu (Iain Shigeoka) Newsgroups: comp.robotics.research Subject: [ADMIN] The Charter for comp.robotics.research Followup-To: comp.robotics.research Date: 16 May 1995 02:26:05 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Lines: 233 Approved: wscott@tam2000.tamu.edu, crr@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca Message-ID: <3p92ft$e0p@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tam2000.tamu.edu Charter for comp.robotics.research (Revision 1.0 May 13, 1995) TABLE OF CONTENTS 0.0 Introduction 1.0 Charter 2.0 Moderator Information 3.0 Moderation Policy 3.1 Keywords 3.2 Submission guidelines: 3.3 Crossposting articles 3.4 Excessive "noise" policy 3.5 Moderator comments 3.6 Followup-to: header 3.7 Anonymous posting 3.8 Moderator conflict resolution 3.9 Moderator replacement 4.0 Other information resources and archives. 0.0 INTRODUCTION Welcome to comp.robotics.research. Throughout the rest of this document comp.robotics.research will be referred to as CRR. This is a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of ongoing and proposed university, government, and industrial research in the field of robotics. Please refer to the moderation policy before making any submissions to CRR. This charter will be posted to the newsgroup monthly. Submissions: crr@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca Meta-discussions: crr-request@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca 1.0 CHARTER Comp.robotics.research is a moderated newsgroup for the discussion of ongoing, and proposed university, government, and industrial research in the field of robotics. Appropriate material includes short presentations and discussions of significant research results, requests for collaboration on research projects, descriptions of ongoing research projects, and new or unique equipment, Requests for Proposals, Calls for Papers, Conference and short course announcements, announcements of position vacancies, and announcements of the availability of materials at Gopher, WWW, and FTP sites. 2.0 MODERATOR INFORMATION This newsgroup is currently co-moderated by: Martin Boyer Iain Shigeoka Backup moderators for CRR are: Wesley Scott Dean Hougen To reach the moderators, send email to the meta-discussion address (crr-request@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca). 3.0 MODERATION POLICY The moderation policy for CRR has been developed to facilitate an effective forum for professionals to discuss robotics research issues. These guidelines are open to improvements. Suggestions and comments are welcome. 3.1 Keywords CRR uses several keywords in the Subject: heading, enclosed in brackets, to denote special articles. These keywords should be prepended to articles by the author where appropriate. The moderators will also prepend a keyword to articles when they feel it is necessary. Normal "discussion" articles do NOT use a keyword. This is the default. The following keywords are currently used in CRR: [ADMIN] - Used exclusively by the moderators to inform the readership of important news regarding CRR. [FAQ] - Denotes FAQ's and other informational digests. [Q] - Questions that lend themselves to a single answer as opposed to a discussion. This also makes them good candidates for inclusion in the CRR FAQ. [CFP] - Call for Papers [CONF] - Conference and short course announcements [ANNOUNCE] - To announce position openings, new info sites (WWW, FTP, Etc.), and to alert readers to other "happenings". 3.2 Submission guidelines: Authors that wish to post to CRR should email their articles to the submission address (crr@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca). The moderators of CRR expect to act as "filters" not censors. Their job is to keep out irrelevant articles and cut down on excessive "noise" in the newsgroup. Articles submitted to CRR will be: 1) accepted, as is 2) accepted, with revisions 3) declined, but encouraged to be resubmitted 4) declined Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection through email. Declined articles will be returned to the author along with a short note detailing why the article was rejected. Articles will be declined for the following reasons: 1) The article does not fall within the CRR charter. 2) There are copyright or reprint permission problems. 3) The question has previously been answered. The poster will be referred to the FAQ. 4) The article contains excessive "noise". See section 3.4 below for more information. 5) The message targets one person and should be emailed. 6) The article is a chainletter, flame, etc... 7) The article contains blatant commercialism. This will be handled on a case by case basis. In general we are looking for "Information, not promotion". 3.3 Crossposting articles Due to technical difficulties, crossposting will not be honored for articles submitted to CRR at the present time. Accepted articles will be posted to CRR but will NOT be crossposted to other newsgroups. We hope to support crossposting in the near future. Authors who attempt to crosspost to CRR will be notified. 3.4 Excessive "noise" policy In order to maintain an efficient forum, the moderators of CRR feel it is necessary to reduce the amount of non-essential "noise" often present in Usenet articles. This noise generally consists of unnecessarily long signatures and excessive quoting of previous posts. We request that author signatures be kept to a minimum. Four lines should be more than enough space. In addition, authors should only quote information directly relevant to their own article. Articles containing excessive noise will be declined. The author will be encouraged to resubmit the article if the noise is removed. For a general guideline, authors should investigate the informational posts in news.announce.newusers. In particular, the following postings may be useful: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Hints on writing style for Usenet 3.5 Moderator comments Moderators will occasionally inject short comments into articles. These comments will generally be placed at the end of the article so as not to interrupt the flow of an author's thoughts. This will generally be done to facilitate the discussion. For example, if the author makes a vague reference to an FTP site, the moderator may inject a comment giving the site address and download directory. Moderators will use brackets to denote their comments. Each comment will end with the moderator's initials. [This is an example of a moderator comment. -IS] 3.6 Followup-to: header The Followup-to: header will be pointed back to the submission address and not to the poster. Authors should configure the Reply-to: and From: headers for personal email response. 3.7 Anonymous posting The moderators will not anonymously post articles to CRR or any other newsgroup. Articles submitted anonymously to CRR will, in almost all cases, be declined. 3.8 Moderator conflict resolution Any conflicts arising between moderators or between the moderators and the readership shall be resolved by a neutral third party. At the present time, no set procedure has been established for doing this. Until this is done, the temporary moderators will have the responsibility and authority to arbitrate and decide the proper course of action. 3.9 Moderator replacement If a moderator can no longer moderate CRR or retires, the remaining co-moderator will act as sole moderator until a replacement can be found. If both moderators leave, a temporary moderator will act as sole moderator until a replacement can be found. 4.0 Other information resources and archives. At the present time no archive exists for CRR. One will be created as soon as possible. In addition, CRR is looking for volunteers to compile FAQ's for inclusion in the archives. Any ideas or works in progress should be reported to crr-request@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca so that your efforts can be coordinated with others. This will hopefully prevent you from duplicating someone else's work. The comp.robotics archive is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.brown.edu. A wais searchable index of the archive is also available (wais://ftp.cs.brown.edu:8001/comp.robotics). Kevin Dowling currently maintains the excellent comp.robotics FAQ. It is available online through the URL's: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~nivek/faq/TOC.html ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/ (Get parts 1-5) or through a mailserver: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu. ---------------------------------------------------- Charter for comp.robotics.research, (c) Copyright Iain Shigeoka 1995 All rights reserved. *************************************************** * Iain Shigeoka: ion@falcon.cc.ukans.edu * * http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~ion * ***************************************************