rec.photo.equipment.35mm

Charter

Updated 2004.11.30 - Condensed version specific to rec.photo.equipment.35mm

General "Rules" for the rec.photo newsgroups

NEVER post a binary file (image file)
NEVER post a commercial advertisment
NEVER post a personal ad to any group except rec.photo.marketplace
NEVER post the same item seperately to more than one group
READ the charters
TRY to read the general guidelines found in the news.announce.newusers newsgroup

rec.photo.equipment.35mm - 35mm cameras and lenses

This group is for the discussion of all aspects of 35mm camera equipment. This includes 35mm SLR camera bodies and lenses, 35mm point-and-shoot cameras, 35mm rangefinder cameras, 35mm scale focus cameras and 35mm half-frame cameras.

All postings made to this group should conform to existing Usenet guidelines (see news.announce.newusers for guideline documents).

This group explicitly prohibits the posting of commercial advertisments or other promotional material, whether or not it is in any way related to photography. Binary postings (i.e. non text postings) are prohibited.

Marketplace

For Sale/For Auction, etc. shall be plaved in the rec.photo.marketplace.35mm newsgroups only,

NEVER place 'for sale/for auction' posts in the rec.photo.equipment.35mm newsgroups.

news:rec.photo.marketplace.35mm will contain all "for sale" and "wanted" postings. These posting will be restricted to the private sale of personally owned and used equipment. These newsgroups specifically do *not* permit commercial advertising, postings by dealers selling or soliciting equipment, postings from internet auction sites, or postings by amateurs regularly dealing in used equipment principally or incidentally for purposes of financial gain. They are intended as forums in which photographers can sell, trade or request equipment in connection with their individual photographic interests.

Postings which receive no replies should *NOT* be reposted for at least one week after the initial posting and should not be repeatedly reposted without material change. Replies (other than factual corrections) should
be sent *only* by email and *never* posted in rec.photo.marketplace.* Advertisers should include a telephone number if possible in case there are problems with email connections (and email problems are not unusal!).

Posters should indicate their geographical location.

For the benefit of all parties, posters are strongly encouraged to make subject lines as descriptive as possible (e.g. "WTB Nikkor 10mm OP-Fisheye lens", "300mm for Pentax 6x7 FS", etc). Use of brand names is encouraged,
as well as abbreviations such as "WTB" (Want To Buy) and "FS" (For Sale).

Postings for auctions which are hosted on web-servers such as eBay, *must* include the keyword [Auction] at the start of the Subject line (e.g. "[Auction] Szabad half-plate camera for sale").

Postings must _not_ be crossposted to any of the rec.photo.* discussion groups. Crossposting within the rec.photo.marketplace.* groups is normally not permitted, with the exception of informational postings.

Binary postings are not acceptable in any of the rec.photo.marketplace.* groups.

If and when new groups are added to the rec.photo.marketplace.* hierarchy, the "all groups" section of this charter may be changed to accomodate any changed circumstances caused by the addition of the new group(s). Such a change of the general "rec.photo.marketplace.*" charter must be included as a part of a newsgroup proposal, and must be explicity mentioned in the proposal.

Original Charter (from whence the condensed version above is taken).

Comments and broken links reports gratefully received at

e-meil: alan dot browne at videotron dot ca