On 12/03/2012 19:12, Andy Champ wrote:

(2) There are restrictions on advertising.

This is actually incorrect Andy.
You might want to check out the Charter for the group. This is the
original set of theoretical "rules" put forward by the "founder" of a
new usenet group when an application for group creation was made.
In the case of this group there is no charter so anything goes!
http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.d-i-y.html

For comparison the originator of another group ("Brawn"
) (don't worry it's no longer valid) that was once
a thriving community, now lost in time has a slightly more theoretical
set of rules:
http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.rec.bodybuilding.html

Back in the day there was a thing called a "net-nanny" who would attempt
to report charter abuse to the powers that be however action was never
taken as the ISP's couldn't give a stuff about usenet charters as long
as their customer kept spending good money on connecting through them on
a penny/minute connection.

Beside which.... Scraper sites are cool because if you know how to play
them right you can get some superb inbound links that actually have a
bit of weight!
;¬)

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