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Re: LUGNET Posting Policy Update
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lugnet.admin.terms
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Date:
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Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:47:31 GMT
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Admins -
Thanks for posting this outside of .admin so that everyone sees it. The Terms of
Use need to be updated to reflect this new policy as well as some other changes.
For example, both your post and my reply are against the TOU:
8. (do not) Post non-plain-text content such as HTML, multi-part MIME
messages, or so-called “binaries” including but not limited to: images, sounds,
multimedia files, computer programs, and blocks of text created using
binary-to-text conversion utilities such as BinHex, uuencode, btoa, and PGP
message encryptions (short PGP signatures, however, are permitted by the
server).
People need to know the rules that they are supposed to be following. Here are
my favorite parts of the new policy:
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First, the group of folks that can suggest timeouts is not itself immune to
being subject to getting timeouts.
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- Repeated abusive language or personal attacks, i.e. bringing more heat than light to a discussion... also known as attacking the person, not the position;
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Personally, this is great news, especially after being called
“egg-headed”,
“stupid”, “pig-headed”, and
“ignorant” here on LUGNET. I trust the new rules will be enforced impartially.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: LUGNET Posting Policy Update
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| (...) Agreed. There are a number of relatively small things that need clarification, revision, expansion or elaboration. But I think these are all at the margins, the main thrust is clear. (...) I scratched my head about this for a bit, as I wasn't (...) (19 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.terms, FTX)
| | | Re: LUGNET Posting Policy Update
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| (...) Hey Marc, I see that you have been reading my posts. Any particular reason why you refuse to acknowledge the facts and you refuse to stop insulting both myself, and the admins of CSF and CC? And to put those quotes in context: "I respond to (...) (19 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.terms, FTX)
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