CHARTER: rec.aviation.piloting

The "founder" of this rec.aviation.piloting usenet newsgroup, Jeoff
Peck, seems to have discontinued periodically posting its charter. In
the hope that knowledge of the charter will improve the newsgroup's
ever declining signal-to-noise ratio, I post it he


From: Geoff Peck )
Subject: CHARTER: rec.aviation.piloting
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting
Date: 2002-01-13 00:45:07 PST

The charter of rec.aviation.piloting is:


************************************************** *****************
* Information pertinent to pilots of general aviation aircraft
* which would not fall into one of the other non-misc
* rec.aviation groups. Topics include, but are not limited to
* flying skills, interesting sights, destinations, flight
* characteristics of aircraft, unusual situations, handling
* emergencies, working with air traffic control, international
* flights, customs and immigration, experiences with
* ground support facilities, etc.

************************************************** *****************


If members of the readership of rec.aviation.piloting feel that the
constraints of this duly enacted charter prevent them from posting
articles that might be classified as 'hangar flying' topics (as
opposed to 'piloting' topics) just say the word, and we can start the
process to have rec.aviation.hangar-flying chartered, or they can post
articles on those topics to rec.aviation.misc.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/crea...sgroups/part1/

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
...

The "founder" of this rec.aviation.piloting usenet newsgroup, Jeoff
Peck, seems to have discontinued periodically posting its charter. In
the hope that knowledge of the charter will improve the newsgroup's
ever declining signal-to-noise ratio, I post it he



snip

Personally, I see very few off topic posts. This NG has, by far, the least
amount of OT posts and spam, than any of the others that I have been a part
of.

What I see is 1 person trying to "police" the NG now...

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:16:55 GMT, Chuck wrote:

What I see is 1 person trying to "police" the NG now...

you don't have the slightest idea of usenet (and its creation and
surviving), do you?

#m
--
harsh regulations in North Korea (read below link after reading the story):
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/04/open-mikulan.php
oooops ... sorry ... it happened in the USA, ya know: the land of the free.

"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:16:55 GMT, Chuck wrote:

What I see is 1 person trying to "police" the NG now...

you don't have the slightest idea of usenet (and its creation and
surviving), do you?


Go ahead and give me the complete history...

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:16:55 GMT, "Chuck" wrote
in Message-Id: t:


"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
.. .

The "founder" of this rec.aviation.piloting usenet newsgroup, Jeoff
Peck, seems to have discontinued periodically posting its charter. In
the hope that knowledge of the charter will improve the newsgroup's
ever declining signal-to-noise ratio, I post it he


snip

Personally, I see very few off topic posts. This NG has, by far, the least
amount of OT posts and spam, than any of the others that I have been a part
of.

Until a rec.aviation.reader has had an opportunity to read and
understand the intent of a newsgroup's charter, s/he cannot know if
articles are on-topic or not. This was obviously recognized by the
newsgroup's original founder, Geoff Peck, as he posted the charters to
the rec.aviation.* hierarchy regularly until ceasing recently.


What I see is 1 person trying to "police" the NG now...


There is no means for policing usenet (with the possible exceptions of
spam canclebots and, of course, individual choice (self-policing or
responsible adherence to the RFCs that govern the network)). By
posting the charter, I merely seek to provide INFORMATION to those who
wish to responsibly participate in this forum.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
In
the hope that knowledge of the charter will improve the newsgroup's
ever declining signal-to-noise ratio, I post it he

Larry, Larry, Larry,

Thanks, but no thanks. This place would be a whole lot less interesting
without the occasional divers thread . . . and with more people like you.

--
Jim Fisher

If members of the readership of rec.aviation.piloting feel that the
constraints of this duly enacted charter prevent them from posting
articles that might be classified as 'hangar flying' topics (as
opposed to 'piloting' topics) just say the word, and we can start the
process to have rec.aviation.hangar-flying chartered, or they can post
articles on those topics to rec.aviation.misc.

I'm a native English speaker, and I still can't figure out what the
difference between piloting topics and hangar flying is.

I'm a native English speaker, and I still can't figure out what the
difference between piloting topics and hangar flying is.

Piloting topics have a basis of truth

--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Almost Instrument
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article nospam-94457D.20280830122003@shawnews, tony roberts
wrote:

I'm a native English speaker, and I still can't figure out what the
difference between piloting topics and hangar flying is.

Piloting topics have a basis of truth

Ohhhhh!!!! Now I get it! If a posting starts out, "There I was...",
it's hangar flying. If a posting begins with anything else, it's the
truth.
Thanks Tony!

That's true for us damyankees. If you are from Dixie, the hangar flying starts
of with "Now this ain't no ****...".

Jim


EDR
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Ohhhhh!!!! Now I get it! If a posting starts out, "There I was...",
-it's hangar flying. If a posting begins with anything else, it's the
-truth.


Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com