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                      Intelec International E-Mail Network
                           General Rules and Policies
                          Release v1.4  dated 04/01/93
                Copyright (c) 1993 Intelec Business Network, Inc

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      General Rules 
     
     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.


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      Receiver Only and Copyrighted Messages 
     
     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.

      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.
