Maintained by: Clyde Meli < cweb@cwebdesign.com >
Introduction - about soc.culture.europe Newsgroup, FAQ, Charter
Welcome to soc.culture.europe. This FAQ is regularly posted to the
soc.culture.europe, the soc.answers and news.answers newsgroups approximately
once a month, and the most
up-to-date version is also available at the soc.culture.europe web site
(http://cwebdesign.com/sce/). The FAQ is an attempt to answer
common questions that are (or may be) asked on soc.culture.europe.
This and other faqs are available at http://www.faqs.org.
The newsgroup soc.culture.europe was set up for the discussion of
anything related to Europe including European countries. It may be used by
web page creators as a springboard for URL announcements of European related
websites.
Created on 6th May 1991, soc.culture.europe is an unmoderated newsgroup
which passed its BIG 8 vote for creation by 425:44 as reported in
news.announce.newgroups on 1st May 1991.
The description for the 'newsgroups file' is 'Discussing all aspects of all-European society'.
The soc.culture.europe web page can be found at the URL
http://cwebdesign.com/sce/.
- What is the point of the group?
The point of a newsgroup is given by its name. 'Soc' is a series of groups
all about social subjects, 'culture' means that the newsgroup discusses
things pertaining to particular cultures, 'europe' means that this is a newsgroup
for discussion of anything connected to Europe and Europeans. For more details
on what one can post about, check the Charter or read on below.
- I cannot connect to soc.culture.europe. HELP!
The list of newsgroups carried by your service provider (ISP) is
generally the responsibility of the news administrator. Since this
group is relatively quite new, not all news administrators will
have added it to their lists. If the newsgroup is still
unavailable at your site, please contact your news administrator
(e.g. by sending an email message) and request that it be carried.
Alternatively try using a web site which
allows access to the newsgroup. For instance:
include Deja (http://www.deja.com) and
Newsguy (http://www.newsguy.com). Note that Newsguy does not archive
old postings, Deja only stores fairly recent posts and does not archive
the early years of this newsgroup.
- How many people will see my post?
It is not known for sure how many people view USENET or any individual
group. But trust me, many people will see it so please try to be
professional.
- Is the newsgroup archived?
No. Dejanews does not have a full archive, it includes posts from the past
year or two only.
- Any hints on group behaviour we should know about?
Well, one should make factual statements without adding colour to inflame
anyone. If one adds a few pejorative adjectives to a factual statement
then it becomes caustic and serves no purpose other than to inflame. The
outcome is people will lose respect for one's writings and ignore them.
Which one would think would not be what the writer wishes.
So a good critical article on a subject will be read and discussed.
- What is the soc.culture.europe charter?
The charter of soc.culture.europe describes what the newsgroup is
to be used for. The topic is anything related to Europe and European
countries basically. It may be used for URL announcements of European
websites and for posting European related news.
The charter can be found at http://cwebdesign.com/sce/charter.html.
- What other FAQ's get posted in this newsgroup?
Zoldan Fekete posts, every three weeks, the Hungarian electronic resources FAQ
as well as the Hungarian email pointer (monthly).
The Macedonia FAQ gets posted here also.
- What is the European Union (EU)?
It would take too much to enter this subject. Instead, please refer
to another FAQ titled European Union Basics (8 parts) posted once by
Roland Siebelink every three weeks to talk.politics.european-union,
eunet.politics, alt.politics.ec, alt.answers, talk.answers and
news.answers; archived at
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/european-union/basics/part1
- How did the vision of the modern 'Europe' come to be?
Konrad Adenauer, Alcide De Gasperi and Robert Schuman began the
process of European integration, and set out with a vision of a
united Europe. In this Europe, prosperity could be built on the ashes
of centuries of war. Only six countries signed up to the Treaty of
Paris which established the European Coal and Steel Community
(ECSC) in 1951. In 1957, two other communities were created -
the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Community for
Atomic Energy. The founding countries were Germany, Italy, France,
the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
- I'm looking for images of Europe
Sometimes people post binaries on soc.culture.europe. Some websites archive
these images. For example, http://www.usenet-replayer.com/groups/soc.culture.europe.html.
- Some other newsgroups for European Countries
Albania - soc.culture.albanian
Bosnia-Herzogovina - soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Bulgaria - soc.culture.bulgaria
Croatia - soc.culture.croatia
England - soc.culture.england
Italy - soc.culture.italian
France - soc.culture.french
Greece - soc.culture.greece
Macedonia - alt.news.macedonia
Malta - alt.culture.malta
Netherlands - soc.culture.netherlands
Slovenia - soc.culture.slovenia
Switzerland - soc.culture.swiss
Turkish - soc.culture.turkish
Yugoslavia - soc.culture.yugoslavia
If your country has been omitted, kindly send me the relevant information,
including the name of your country's newsgroup.
- Contributors to the FAQ and other Sources
The following people have made posted or emailed contributions to this FAQ and
soc.culture.europe newsgroup. Special
thanks goes to them. If you
have any corrections, suggestions, additions, subtractions etc,
preferably please email Clyde Meli, cweb@cwebdesign.com.
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accuracy or correctness, and has no official relationship whatsoever
with any European institution mentioned.
Clyde Meli - http://cwebdesign.com
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