This newsgroup will be open to technical aspects of the year 2000 conversion including: * Technical discussions - year 2000 problems and solutions on various computer systems and networks. "What we're doing in our project"; suggestions on test setups for specific systems. Programming solutions. * Project-management issues - suggested phases in year 2000 projects; how to get projects budgeted; cost estimating; test strategies; contingency plans; checklists; expected staffing demands. * Software tools - for inventory and/or conversion of affected code. Rating of/experiences with specific tools. Pitfalls to watch out for. Pointers to relevant products and vendor documentation. Moderation policies: Language shall not be restricted to English. All posts shall be directly related to the subject of year 2000 compliance. Topics of a political, philosophical or religious nature SHALL NOT be posted in comp.software.year-2000.tech. No job postings. No binary/HTML posts. Single, short announcements of Y2k products (either new or significant upgrades) are acceptable, but should refer to Web pages for details. We hope to keep the moderation light, and allow most non-spam posts. END CHARTER.
Moderator's annotations: The charter is almost identical to the original charter for comp.software.year-2000. The main difference is, this group is moderated. "THIS TIME WE MEAN IT." Based on the discussion in news.groups: * Please remember that the UNMODERATED group comp.software.year-2000 remains open. We're not the only forum available to you! * All approved posts will be PGP-signed by the modbot using PGPMoose. * The moderator does not edit posts. They are either accepted as-is or returned to the sender with an explanation. To get a reply your email address must be valid; the modbot will not try to remove any "NOSPAM" strings (except the literal "nospam.") before replying. * If you think your post was rejected in error, your appeal will be reviewed by a third party (the newsgroup proponent). This is automatic if you use the "Reply-to" address given in the modbot's rejection notice. * If you feel that someone else's post should not have been approved, please address your complaint to the moderator rather than posting a followup to the group. * To avoid flames over netiquette issues, the moderator may ask you to correct a technical problem with your post. To make this as objective as possible, there is a written list at http://www.nic.com/~csy2kt/errs.htm that will explain the sort of problems we want to avoid. * We explicitly accept ON TOPIC commercial ads and press releases. We will accept two per calendar quarter for the same product or service. Attempts to re-post anything that was accepted less than 45 days ago will be treated as a duplicate (i.e. an accident, to be rejected without prejudice).
If the fact that this group is moderated bothers you, you should realize that there are more than 32,000 other newsgroups which I don't moderate.
Even if something is off-topic here, it may still be
important.
I accept that. I'm not here to belittle your beliefs or concerns.
Even though something is important, it can still be off-topic
here.
We asked for one group out of 30,000+ where we can talk about Y2k code
issues on a professional, technical level. I'm here to keep it running,
not to argue about it or apologize for it.
Let's crank code.