NZNOG People, It is not always obvious, but this list does have an acceptable use policy. Here it is: ---------- NZNOG Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among New Zealand network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1. Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 4. Postings to multiple mailing lists are discouraged. 5. Postings that include foul language, character assassination, and lack of respect for other participants are unacceptable. 6. Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 7. Postings of a political, philosophical or legal nature are discouraged. 8. Postings to the list should be in ASCII or MIME encoded as text/plain. Attachments should not be sent to the list. To present a document, a suitable URL may be referred to. For documents of general interest, the use of proprietary file formats is discouraged. 9. Breaches of list etiquette should be dealt with privately with the offending list user, and should not result in complaints being sent to the list. ---------- This has served us well enough for a number of years. I now propose the following addition: 10. A person repeatedly breaching list etiquette shall receive warnings from the list administrator. A further breach after the second such warning within thirty days shall result in the offender being unsubscribed from the list. Other action may also be taken to block postings to the list by the offender. Any such unsubscription is to be immediately announced to the list. Votes on this change to me (not the list!) by midday, Friday 10 August, please. In the interim, I intend to proceed as I outlined previously. I shall issue formal warnings for irrelevant or abusive postings, and shall act to block postings as soon as a third warning within thirty days is issued to any individual. To avoid any appearance of retrospective action, I shall start counting warnings only from the appearance of this posting to the list. NB: This wiping of the slate excludes persons who have during the last week threatened me with legal action or have threatened to approach my employers to get them to influence my issuing of warnings for inappropriate posting. I consider that those involved have received far more warning than most people already. If a majority of votes cast support the change, this will become permanent practice, and the list will switch in the near future to accepting postings only from addresses supplied in advance. If the majority oppose it, we shall return to relying on people's goodwill. Unless someone else has a better idea? Donald --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog