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Also known as: charter
The statement of a group's topic and rules, written during the proposal that created it and distributed in the body of the newgroup control message. A charter defines what counts as on-topic, whether the group is moderated, and sometimes whether encoded files are permitted. It carries no technical enforcement whatsoever, so it matters only as far as readers and moderators choose to hold posters to it.
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