All articles submitted to the newsgroup k12.ed.math must be submitted in plain text format, also known as ASCII or 7-bit format.

Articles with any other types of encoding, or containing attachments will be rejected. Articles with multipart/alternative formatting, including both text and HTML parts will be rejected.

If your article is rejected due to formatting issues, you may resubmit it in plain text format.

Here are some links that may be helpful in configuring your news reader to compose articles in plain text:

http://member.newsguy.com/~schramm/nhtml.html
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/plaintext.html
http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html
http://www.icomm.ca/~dragon/posting.htm

2003-Jul-11 1:27pm kem-moderator, kem-moderator

It is recommended that a reply to a posted article contain some quoted material in order to give readers sufficient information about the context of the discussion and reply.

However, please trim quoted material to only what is necessary to provide this context for the reader.

Excessive quoting can result in articles being rejected.

Other requirements for submitted articles, as noted in the k12.ed.math newsgroup charter, at
http://thinkspot.net/k12math/charter.html#3.Policy
are listed below

"The moderator determines if each message meets the guidelines (which follow). If it does, the moderator posts it to the newsgroup. If not, it is rejected. No confimation message or receipt will be sent by the moderator to authors of approved posts. Rejected posts may or may not be returned to their author, depending on the reason for rejection. See below.

Messages approved for posting in k12.ed.math would most likely conform to the following guidelines:
a. Be directly pertinent to k-12 mathematics
b. Not contain material inappropriate for k-12 classrooms
c. Have a Subject: field that is descriptive of the message's content
d. Model constructive conversation and debate, rather than inflammatory attacks
e. Follow up articles would not contain excessive quoting. A good guideline is that there should be more reply text than quoted text.
f. Advertisements for products and services would be directly related to k-12 mathematics. Such ads would be brief, possibly indicating where more detailed information is available, and they would be posted infrequently (no more than once a month).
g. Preferably not cross-posted. Cross-posts are approved at the discretion of the moderator. See below for more specifics.

The following will cause a message to be automatically rejected:
a. Clearly off-topic (i.e. spams, adult topics, pyramid schemes)
b. Cross-posted to many newsgroups (more than 5).
c. Cross-posted to other moderated newsgroups.

2003-Oct-16 2:49pm kem-moderator