Re: [ga] Formalizing the rules......

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 08:22:58AM +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> tangential to the present discussion:
> 
> would there be general agreement that if there are rules for refusing 
> people the right to post to the GA list, they should ideally be:
> 
> - Publicly available
> - Explicit
> - Consistently applied?
> 
> I see the current listadmin action as someone doing what he thinks is 
> required in the absence of guidelines; a similar situation on the IETF list 
> was helped greatly by the development of guidelines.
> 
>                         Harald A

Here are some proposed rules.  They are slightly modified versions of
the rules used by ISOC.  ISOC may have intellectual property rights in
these rules -- if so I believe they would allow our use of them:

         Proposed ICANN/DNSO Email List Usage Agreement

By subscribing and/or posting to any ICANN or DNSO mailing list you
agree to the following:

  You are solely responsible for any and all materials you post.  While
  you retain the rights to your postings, ICANN/DNSO retains the right
  to maintain a database of the compilation of all postings, to use that
  compilation however it deems appropriate, including publishing it, on the 
  web or anywhere else.

  There is no right to privacy, anonymity, or confidentiality of mailing
  list contributions.  ICANN/DNSO does not monitor postings by mailing list
  users, and is not responsible for the nature or content of anything
  posted to the mailing list(s).  

  ICANN/DNSO reserves the right to remove, at any time, any or all of
  your mailing list privileges if ICANN/DNSO determines, at ICANN/DNSO's
  sole discretion, that you have violated our standards of behavior.  No
  unlawful materials may be posted to ICANN/DNSO mailing lists. 
  Repeatedly posting off-topic or insulting messages, spamming mailing
  lists by posting the same message to multiple lists, sending large
  messages or attachments, or in anyway deliberately disrupting any
  mailing list are unacceptable behaviors and will result in termination
  of your privileges and access to the mailing lists.  ICANN/DNSO
  mailing lists may not be used by you for commercial purposes. 
  ICANN/DNSO may create new mailing lists or remove or alter existing
  ones. 

  These terms may be changed by ICANN/DNSO by posting a notice to the
  lists involved.


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Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain