Voici the export news report:
(from Jessica Cohen for the Export-News Taskforce)


1). The export-news taskforce recommends that the following site agreement
    be implemented:

 Site Agreement Draft
 ===================

 To receive a feed of the ncf.* newsgroups, please mail this agreement back
 to [exportnews@freenet.carleton.ca] indicating that you will abide by it.

 By accepting the feed of the National Capital FreeNet's internal
 newsgroups, _________________ indicates that:

 a) this site has a presence in the National Capital Region;

 b) ncf.* newsgroups will not be propagated to other sites without prior
  confirmation from NCF that the secondary site has agreed to abide by this
  agreement;

 c) this site has a clearly defined and enforced acceptable use policy;

 d) this site will respond to, and when appropriate, address complaints about
  users at this site;

 e) upon request from the NCF, a feed to any secondary will be revoked.

 This agreement works on the honour system. NCF has no obligation to
 continue to provide any site with a newsfeed. Feeds will be revoked from
 any site failing to deal with gross abuse of the network by its users.

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end draft


2) The export-news task force recommends that we also make available guidelines
giving a description what constitutes abuse of the network, and giving pointers
to examples of acceptable AUP's.

Guidelines 
--------------

Q. What is meant by abuse?

A. Abuse of network includes, but is not limited to:
   - using the network for carrying on illegal activities,
     such as repeated harassment, threats, fraud etc.
   - mailbombing, unsolicited email advertising (eg: using addresses
     culled from news).
   - newsbombing (ie: spam).
   - overloading parts of the network in spite of requests
     to reduce traffic.


Q. What do you mean by an AUP?

A. An acceptable use policy, such as NCF's AUP
(http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freenet/rootdir/menus/freenet/board/policy/aup.pol)
or the OCUNIX AUP (http://insert.a.url.in.this.space)



3)  The Export-news task force recommends that the following newsgroups
   not be exported at all:
  
     ncf.announce
     ncf.francais & ncf.general
     ncf.admin.volunteer.playground
     ncf.sigs.irc 
     Sigs such as the 'Kid's Sig' which are geared specifically to young
          children
     ncf.sigs.comnet.*   (these are about NCF comnetting rather than ncr
          comnetting) 
     and all 'archived' newsgroups (such as the 94 & 95 AGM groups)

4) The export-news task force recommends that the following actions be 
   implemented to deal with the remaining groups:

-For information provider groups: 
   
    mail to contact IP's and ask if they want their group
    exported. If they reply yes we export, if they reply no we don't.
    If they don't reply at all we don't export; and we refer them to the 
    IMTF for followup.

-For the SIGS:

a) moderated SIGS: treat as IP's
  
    For all moderated newsgroups we will make available the option of
    exporting newsgroups such that anyone can read them, but only posts
    originating from an ncf address will reach the moderator's mailbox.
    Posting attempts from outside NCF will receive an automatic reply 
    explaining they must be posting from within NCF to post to the newsgroup.


b) all other SIGS with the exception of those previously mentioned above:

   our recommendation is that they all can be exported, with a mechanism setup
   for sigs to 'opt-out'


- NCF Administrative Groups:

  With the exceptions noted above , all administrative groups should be
  exported. Moderated groups (such as ncf.board-discussion-moderated) would
  be setup to ignore postings from outside NCF. In the case of board-mod,
  the auto-reply would suggest that people direct their posts at 
  board-unmoderated instead.