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- oPOL0: Opus Policy, version zero (pronounced "oh-pahl'-oh")
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- This is the official policy statement of WOC: The Worldwide Opus Consortium
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- DRESS CODE
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- WOC sysops must wear mirror shades.
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- ATTITUDE
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- There is a difference between "serious" and "solemn".
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- Any WOC sysop caught being solemn will be referred to the Enforcement
- Squad of the Opus ByLaws and Covert Action Committee for a solemnectomy.
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- Any WOC sysop caught being sirius will be sent to Bob Klahn for
- technical support.
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- BACKBITING, SNIDE REMARKS, AND ON AND ON
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- Any WOC sysop who backbites, or makes a snide remark to another WOC
- sysop, or who on-and-on's will be forced to memorize the entire set of
- GBS/BBS embedded commands.
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- Note that the "snide remark" clause only refers to other WOC sysops.
- It's okay to snip at non-WOC sysops.
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- MATRIX
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- If you run net-mail, you gotta run National Mail Hour.
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- TRANSIENTS
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- If you're accept "In Transit" messages, you can't delete or change the
- content unless it would be illegal for you to transmit the messages.
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- If you do detete or change messages, your title is "editor" instead of
- "host." Because WOC doesn't have a title anything like "editor", deleting
- or changing a message is the same thing as resigning as host.
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- The change clause does not apply to software which adds "Via" or "SeenBy"
- or other automated festooning for reasonable technical purposes.
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- RULES IN A NUTSHELL
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- Rule #1: Don't take yourself so seriously.
- Rule #2: Run National Mail Hour.
- Rule #3: Don't delete or change "in transit" messages.
- Rule #4: Send code.
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- ENFORCEMENT
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- Except where noted, this is a codification of Natural Law. It is not
- necessary to account for enforcement of such things as the National Mail
- Hour in the same way as it isn't necessary to enforce the Laws of Gravity.
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- It is like there is no need to make a law that says "All bachelors must
- remain unmarried." That would be silly. When a bachelor gets married,
- he's simply not a bachelor any more. When a system doesn't run National
- Mail Hour, it isn't running net-mail. It's very simple and straight-forward.
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- Enforcement of the Unnatural Laws, such as wearing mirror shades, is
- absolute. It is now a standard that any WOC software incorporate
- enforcement procedures. For example, when entering chatmode, WOC
- software will produce a brilliant flash on the monitor that could result
- in eye damage to anybody not wearing mirror shades.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- Membership in WOC doesn't preclude membership in any other association.
- WOC is neither for or against anything or anybody, and never takes a
- stand on any issue (except mirror shades).
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- MERIT BADGES
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- The following merit badges are available to WOC members:
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- * Continuous Mail...
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- WOC AROUND THE CLOCK logon certificate
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- * 386-based mail system...
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- WOC DON'T RUN gbs file
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- * WOC system carrying more than 50 echomail areas...
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- WOC ON THE WILD SIDE ribbon
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- * New WOC sysop...
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- OUT OF THE SKILLET INTO THE WOC badge
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- Penalties for improperly displaying a WOC badge or honor gbs file are
- too severe to even mention.
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