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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2068)	7/22/1998 8:38:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 4231

New Newsgroup comp.txt.xml For any lurkers here who may be unfamiliar with usenet... You probably do not want to rush over just to pronounce your infatuation with SoftQuad, the place for that is here on SI. Certainly a well thought and well placed (subtle) advertisement for SoftQuad would be nice now and then--just in case there are a few people on the NG who are unfamiliar with this company. This is specifically addressed in a paragraph in the release. I am sure we will all learn alot about the potential of XML as details emerge on this NG in the months ahead. At the least, it will be something else to read while we wait...for the Sleeper to Awake! Here is a copy of the announcement. Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.text.xml From: group-admin@isc.org (David C Lawrence) Date: 1998/07/20 Message-ID: <900966601.23353@isc.org> Newsgroups: comp.text.xml comp.text.xml is an unmoderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 365:22 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 15 Jul 1998. For your newsgroups file: comp.text.xml The Extensible Markup Language (XML). The charter, culled from the vote result announcement: Comp.text.xml shall be an unmoderated newsgroup for the general discussion of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its application. This includes, but is not limited to the specifications and syntax, document creation and editing, interchange, software, processing and database integration. This applies not only to XML itself but also the Extensible Linking Language (XLL), the Extensible Style Language (XSL), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as applied to XML documents, and to document types and applications of XML. Policy on Advertising We encourage discussion of the merits and shortcomings of commercial products. A certain amount of advertising (both objective and advocative) is to be expected and this is to be encouraged as long as the products and services relate directly to XML and the announcements are brief. Company representatives are expected to participate in discussions of their product that they themselves did not initiate. Please refer to the widely available Internet literature on the subject of common net abuses (indiscriminate newsgroup spamming, multiple advertisement posting, and chain letters being among the most frequent). eom