Can we have some clarification re posts about Newsgroups?

FrenchTart · 25 Jan 2009 at 13:57

Another one has vanished from this forum and all it seemed to contain was legal advice that didn't touch on anything "dodgy".

Fair enough if OcUK want us to stop discussing it here - but could we please have some kind of guidelines? Some posts still seem to exist so it'd be nice to know what makes them acceptable and others not.

Daegan · 25 Jan 2009 at 14:24

I think a good guideline would be no discussion or mention of sites that index usenet.

snakeater · 25 Jan 2009 at 14:45

Yeah, lets be honest here, nobody is using usenet for linux iso's.

FrenchTart · 25 Jan 2009 at 15:40

Seems fair enough.

The thing that is confusing is that we also had mods/dons posting in the thread...so...y'know..

tolien · 25 Jan 2009 at 17:28

The one's I've removed have either fallen foul of:

Daegan said:
I think a good guideline would be no discussion or mention of sites that index usenet.

or are basically "so yeah, I want to download Linux ISOs *nudge* *nudge*

", and they're the only ones I can see that have been removed lately.
I've posted warnings about the former before, and the latter's covered by the FAQ (and should also be common sense).

FrenchTart · 25 Jan 2009 at 17:45

Obviously, anything where people are blatently talking about downloading illegal content or "linux ISOs" should be removed. No arguments there.

The last removed thread didn't seem to be going into those groups and was simply help in setting up newsgroup clients/plugins...but I can see what you mean /re talking about indexing sites.

I just wanted an authorative answer as to what was okay and what wasn't. Now I know, thanks

Daegan · 25 Jan 2009 at 18:20

Aekeron said:
The last removed thread didn't seem to be going into those groups and was simply help in setting up newsgroup clients/plugins...but I can see what you mean /re talking about indexing sites.

We were discussing how said plugin works with indexing sites though, so again we'd strayed onto dodgy ground.

FrenchTart · 25 Jan 2009 at 18:34

Daegan said:
We were discussing how said plugin works with indexing sites though, so again we'd strayed onto dodgy ground.

Yes, my wording was bad - I meant to say that "we weren't discussing downloading illegal stuff, but we were discussing indexing sites".