Submitting Newsgroup complaints to FrontierNet Security
FrontierNet does not make, nor is known to be required to enforce,
individual newsgroup posting policies.
Newsgroups (unlike Email) do have their own facilities
to rid themselves of unwanted postings. FrontierNet considers itself
to be only an enforcing assistant of Newsgroup policies when all existing
authority and enforcement options have been exhausted AND a person in
authority is willing to submit a complaint that the unresolved situation
is disrupting the Newsgroup.
Newsgroup articles can be cancelled. You are encouraged
to contact the Newsgroup's enforcement authority and request that they
cancel the offending post and notify the poster that this has taken
place. This will remove the incentive to post articles that you feel
are offensive.
Should the enforcing authority have a continued problem despite cancelling,
the enforcing authority may submit a complaint in accordance with the
requirements below. Incomplete complaints cannot be processed. All
Newsgroup complaints must be submitted with the following information
To submit a complaint, you must be a managing authority of the
Newsgroup and have already used those enforcement options available
to you. Automated complaints cannot be accepted. Complaints
from those not in authority or if not already enforced by the Newsgroup
cannot be processed (contact your enforcing authority for resolution).
The required information is:
- full Newsgroup name, posting regulations, and a statement establishing
the regularity that the posting regulations are posted to the news
group (or other manner in which users are informed of the regulations)
- complaintant's name, position of authority, email address, physical
address, and phone number
- a specific (non-automated) complaint, including the actions you
have taken to resolve the problem, associated Emails, etc.
- if the post violates a local regulation/ordinance/law, please
provide the full specification and the text of the paragraph violated
- satisfaction sought (must be attainable and reasonable, for instance
an AUP violation)
- all supporting postings with complete headers
Contact us
with all newsgroup related complaints. Please specify in the comments
field Authorized Newsgroup disruption complaint.
