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ICGAL Policies
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UPDATED 05/21/97
First off, ICGAL, Issues Concerning Gays and Lesbian, is a conference for
the discussion of anything NOT Sexually Explicit that affects the gay and
lesbian community. It is intended for EVERYONE, be they homo-, hetero-, or
bi-sexual.
This echo is open to all ages.
The rules for ICGAL are as follows:
[General Section]
a) All messages in this conference must pertain to the subject matter
established above.
b) As stated in Echo Mail Policies, No messages containing illegal
information or activities are allowed. For those who don't know, this
includes long distance phone codes, credit cards, etc..
c) All are welcome, but, those who tend to be 'gay-bashers' are not. All
participants in this echo are expected to act as adults. No direct
insults to anyone will be tolerated. Simply put, be friendly, be
mature, have an intelligent discussion, but don't beat the hell out of
someone to prove your point. (Whether it proves your point or not.)
If someone doesn't belong, leave it to me to take care of it, don't
bitch back, that only makes things worse. If you feel I haven't taken
care of a situation, leave me NetMail. My address appears on the
origin line below.
d) Private messages are not allowed here. This is mainly due to the fact
that the board is made for PUBLIC discussion. Private messages belong
in Net-Mail.
e) None of the messages contained in ICGAL may be moved to any other
conference area, EXCEPT area GayNews. Nor shall any message that is in
another Echo be transported over to ICGAL EXCEPT area GayNews without
permission from the Moderator. The primary purpose of this is minimize
message duplication from other Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/
Transsexual echoes available on the FidoNet Backbone. If a message is
teleported from the Internet to GAYNEWS, please remove all Internet
addressing/routing from the message. A list of Moderator approved
cross posters will be contained within these rules.
f) NAMBLA - any Pro-NAMBLA discussion is OFF lIMITS. However, how NAMBLA
affects the Gay/Lesbian Community is an on topic discussion, if I find
that any abuse to this rule I will go back to the former rule of
declaring all discussion of NAMBLA OFF LIMITS. For those of you who
don't know who or what NAMBLA stands for, NAMBLA stands for: North
American Man Boy Love Association. NAMBLA is a group of men who
promote sex with children.
g) In the past there has been some messages about putting animals into ones
colon. This is a myth and is also sexually explicit so there for is off
topic.
h) The official language of FidoNet is English so therefore official
language of this echo is English, however, if you feel that you must
post a message in another language, a English translation of this
message must, also be posted at the same time. It is preferred that
the English translation appear within the same message.
i) Spelling: Please refrain from correcting some ones spelling or grammar
as not everybody has perfect spelling and sometimes news articles are
scanned into the computer via a scanner or some one types in manually
articles. While most people have spell checkers, quite a few don't
have a grammar checker.
j) Since Gay-bashing messages are off topic, responding to them is also
off topic. The Moderator and Co-Moderator, if any, of this echo takes
care of this.
k) Please leave the moderation of the echo to the Moderator and Co-
Moderator. All decisions of the Moderator is final. If there is a
question about the moderation of the echo please take it to NetMail.
[Co-Moderators Section]
a) Co-Moderator's purpose - to act upon the Moderator behalf.
b) No user may be removed from the echo except for gay-bashing by the Co-
moderator without the Moderators approval. If user is disrupting the
echo, Co-Moderator may use his or her best judgement if the Co-
Moderator hasn't heard from the Moderator within 2 weeks.
c) No Node may be removed from the echo without the Moderator's approval.
d) The right to appeal: Sysops and users have the right to appeal the Co-
Moderator's decision. The Moderator will make a final decision
within 4 weeks.
e) Most of the moderation should take place via netmail with carbon copies
sent to the Moderator. However, to show that the moderators are active
in the echo, enter a few moderator messages.
g) Copyrighted Material may be posted in its entirety with the original
source of the article, date appeared in the original appeared, and
original bi-lines... i.e. say the Houston Post had an article that
appeared 6/5/94 by Jim Jones, the first line of the message should
state: Article by Jim Jones as appeared in the Houston Post on 6/5/94.
As long as there isn't any financial gain by the message poster there
isn't a copyright violation (at least in the USA).
[Cross Posters Section]
I cannot remember who I have given permission to cross post... If you name
doesn't appear here please feel free to contact me either here on the echo
or via NetMail.
[NetMail Addresses]
If anyone has any problems, or questions about this, you can address mail to
George Worley at 1:106/31.0 / gworley@brokersys.com or to Janet Sullivan
1:15/23.0
George Worley (1:106/31.0) - Moderator
(gworley@brokersys.com)
Janet Sullivan (1:15/23.0) - Co-Moderator