Charter of rec.gardens.bamboo
 

CHARTER: rec.gardens.bamboo

This news group will provide a forum for discussing bamboo. Bamboo is a remarkable plant that grows in all areas of the world and enjoys world-wide interest. This would be an unmoderated newsgroup, with no official standing or connection to any company or product.

Advertising Policy:

Following standard Usenet guidelines, the newsgroup is not intended to be used for commercial advertising, solicitation, or marketing of products or services. However; a brief description, with no marketing hype, of a bamboo related business with a link is acceptable.

Acceptable Topics:

The following is a partial list of what is on-topic and is intended only to give the potential voter the flavor of what kinds of topics would be appropriate:

Association and Chapter News and Events
Bamboo Arts and Crafts
Bamboo Shoots as Vegetables
Beginner Questions
Building with Bamboo
Books and Articles on Bamboo
Commercial Uses of Bamboo
Cropping and Trimming Groves
Fertilizing
Flowering Reports
Growing Temperate and Tropical Species
Harvest
Links to Bamboo Sites
Maintaining Groves
Marketing
Pests and Diseases
Propagating Bamboo
Research on Bamboo
Reviews of Grove Visits
Reviews of Sources
Short descriptions of your bamboo business with link
Sources of Bamboo (Links to Commercial growers)
Yields

Inappropriate Topics:

Advertising (Links to sources is ok)
Attachments and Binaries
Illegal or Immoral Topics
Personal Attacks
Pornography
Profanity
Racial, Religious, Ethnic, or Gender attacks
Spam

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