ÚÄÄÄÄ¿ ßßßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛßßß ßßßÛÛ ÛÛßßß ÀÄÄÄÄÙ Intelec International E-Mail Network General Rules and Policies Release v1.4 dated 04/01/93 Copyright (c) 1993 Intelec Business Network, Inc ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ General Rules ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Illegal activities will not be tolerated in the Intelec Network. Any such activities constitute a grievous reason for removal from the Net- work and may necessitate further legal action against the violator for any legal liabilities such activities may cause. BBS ads are allowed in the BBS_ADS or ANSI conf once per BBS per week. Obvious "aliases" may not be used anywhere within Intelec conferences. Anyone found to be abusive in nature, such as but not limited to, name calling, insults, slanderous statements, arrogant or instigative posts or any other rude, lewd or otherwise obnoxious behavior or comments, will be dealt with as defined in these guidelines. The use of any word group of words, expression, comment, suggestion, or proposal which is profane, filthy, lewd, lascivious, obscene, indecent, or that is de- meaning ethnically or racially is strictly prohibited with the Intelec Network. Topics deemed immoral or unethical by the administration of the network are to cease when asked. Topics deemed to be in poor taste must also case when asked. Failure to do so can and will result in the removal of the offender from the Intelec Network. The Intelec Network, Intelec Business Network, Inc, all member SysOps assume no liability or accountability whatsoever for any violations of this policy by any and all participants of the Intelec Network. ANSI is permitted within the Intelec ANSI or BBS_Ads conferences only. BBS-Software-specific macros are not permitted for use within Intelec. English is the only official network language. No other is supported. Network matters must be discussed in the appropriate Admin conference. These include NetAdmin, Moderators, Regionals, Net-Staff conferences. Signatures may not be more than 3 lines or 80 characters at a MAXimum. `Taglines' may not be more than 1 line and 79 characters at a MAXimum. Political or religious statements must be within the appropriate conf- erence and this includes message headers, text, tags and signatures. Quote size is limited to only what's necessary for "train of thought", and as determined by conference moderators or administrative staff. Elaborate quoting utilities have been banned from use on this Network. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ Receiver Only and Copyrighted Messages ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Pursuant to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, 18 USC 2510 et. seq., all BBS SYSOPs and users participating within Intelec, must be aware that there are no facilities provided by the Network for sending or receiving confidential electronic communications. Although Intelec maintains the capability and capacity to send and receive mail that is flagged as "Receiver-Only" or "Routed Mail.", mail so flagged is not to be considered by any user as actual "private" messages. The purpose of the "R/O" or "Routed Mail" are intended solely to provide means to limit the possible number of nodes and/or users that may have access to the mail for display purposes. All participating Network SysOps must agree, as a condition of network membership and participation, that they will notify anyone reading or exchanging messages within all Intelec conferences on their BBS of all network guidelines and that Intelec has no facilities for exchanging confidential electronic communications. Suitable bulletins and/or news displays should be placed in a prominent place within the users' view- ing capabilities, indicating that no confidential communications capa- bilities are available within the Intelec Network. All messages posted in relayed conferences are deemed to be public. Access policies to the private conferences must be maintained to restrict access to only the private conference members as described in these guidelines. Intelec Network, Intelec Business Network, Inc and all member SysOps assume no accountability or liability whatsoever for any violations of this policy by any and all users of the Intelec Network. Message entered into an Intelec Network conference become the property of the Intelec Network and its membership, unless the author posts an explicit copyright notice in the message so only the author of a copy- righted piece of material may post copyright notices on messages. þ Editor's Note: The above are bits and pieces from the Intelec network guidelines and are NOT meant to represent the entire list of network guidelines. For a complete listing please see NETRULES.IN contained inside the IN-9304.ZIP file which should be available from the same BBS you downloaded this file from.