10. What about hentai & pornography?

10. Hentai Material [Original Contributors, Keikai, Onakra]

Hentai material should not be posted to either ABMA or ABA. Hentai material is generally considered to be that which contains depictions of sex, whether censored or not. When borderline, or if the poster is unsure about whether the material in a potential post is hentai or not, an "Intent to Post" message should be posted to the group asking if the material is acceptable. A prompt reply from those who are familiar with the material and this subject should be forthcoming.

The proper group for posting hentai anime is alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica.anime (ABMEA). The ABMEA FAQ is maintained by Squared Root and is available at http://squaredroot.virtualave.net/.

Further explanation of this policy:

The charter of ABMA specifically states:

Things that should not be posted in alt.binaries.multimedia.anime:

• pictures: they belong in alt.binaries.pictures.anime
• sounds/music: they belong in alt.binaries.sounds.anime
• general anime discussion: belongs in the rec.arts.anime* newsgroups
• hentai/erotica material
• non-anime material

That means no hentai material in ABMA folks!

Orignally, ABA was an unchartered or rogue, newsgroup. However, even then, most regular posters felt rather strongly that hentai should be kept off of it as well. This is not because of any self-righteous puritanical reason. It is because of the fact that quite a few ISP's newsservers will not carry erotica/porn newsgroups. If some parents find their kids downloading porn from a non-porn newsgroup and complain to their ISP, most likely the ISP will simply stop carrying that newsgroup. This will ruin things for other people on the same ISP who also follow the newsgroup. So please be considerate.

Another very important reason for excluding hentai is that, in newsgroup naming convention, newsgroups with sex-related material are designated with "erotica" or "sex". Since neither of these words are in "alt.binaries.anime", newsservers and ISPs will treat it as non-sex newsgroup by default. If the more strict service providers discover the existance of porn in ABA they will no doubt stop carrying the newsgroup. Just see the disappearance of misspelled/disguised warez newsgroups from the @home servers for a potential fate of ABA, or ask your news service providers what usually happens to "stealth" erotica groups.

If ABMEA is not available on your server, alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.anime (ABPEA2) has been an acceptable substitute. Note there is no 'a' at the end of "erotic". Hentai anime is not appropriate in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime (ABPEA) which is home to hentai manga and pictures. ABPEA2 was a misnamed group and became, for a while, a convenient spot to post hentai anime, something which did not have an official home until ABMEA was chartered by Jiss with the support of several of the ABPEA2 regulars..

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