| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2.1 | General rules | MOIRA::FAIMAN | A goblet, a goblet, yea, even a hoop | Tue May 31 1988 20:43 | 54 |
| The following are the general noting rules for the NATURISM conference.
These rules are subject to revision from time to time. (Changes from
the previous version of these rules have been marked with bars in the
left margin.)
(1) This conference and all of its contents are for
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION INTERNAL USE ONLY.
(2) No note entered in this conference may be reproduced elsewhere,
in whole or in part, including by any form of electronic
redistribution, without the explicit permission of its author.
(3) The subject matter of this conference revolves around issues of
social nudity. If this is offensive to you, then you would be
well advised to spare your sensibilities and refrain from
reading the conference.
| (4) Rules (1) and (2) notwithstanding, you should not make any
| assumptions about who will read the notes you write here. Do
| not write anything in this file that you might be embarrassed
| to have someone else (anyone else!) read.
(5) All entries in this conference must be associated with an
identifiable individual. Submissions from a "generic" account
(SYSTEM, OPERATOR, etc.) should include the author's name
(either as a NOTES personal name or as a signature at the
end of the note).
(6) Anonymous notes may be MAILED to a moderator, who will enter
them in the conference at his discretion. You can get a list
of moderators with the SHOW MODERATOR command.
(7) Discussion is welcome. Flaming (and particularly personal
attacks) are not.
(8) If you are offended by a note, please contact the author first,
and then contact the conference moderator if you are unable to
obtain satisfaction.
(9) Notes by a moderator represent personal opinion, not conference
policy, unless they explicitly indicate otherwise (often with
the annotation "(moderator)" after the author's signature).
| 10)Please enter notes in mixed (upper and lower) case. Notes
| entered entirely in capital letters are hard on the eyes (and
| offensive to the moderator).
|
| (11)Notes, and particularly topic notes (written with WRITE rather
| than REPLY), ought to have useful or relevant titles. Think
| about someone looking at a directory of this conference two
| years from now -- will they be able to find the notes they are
| interested in?
|
| 2.2 | Site report guidelines | MOIRA::FAIMAN | A goblet, a goblet, yea, even a hoop | Tue May 31 1988 21:39 | 41 |
| 2.3 | Superseded by new policy in note 2.5 | MOIRA::FAIMAN | light upon the figured leaf | Tue Jun 20 1989 17:47 | 36 |
| The following policy on anonymous notes is an elaboration of rules (5)
and (6) of the basic conference policies in note 2.1.
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1. Authors are responsible for the notes that they write in the
NATURISM conference. Each note in the conference must be written
by an identifiable individual.
If you must enter a note from an anonymous or group account
(SYSTEM, FIELD, OPER, GUEST, etc.), please sign your name at the
end of the note, or otherwise make your identity clear.
2. We (the moderators) will occasionally post a note anonymously for
someone if it contains personal information which could cause
embarassment or other problems for the author (or for someone else
who would be identifiable if people knew who the author was). The
moderator who posts the note must still know who wrote it.
It is important to realize that such anonymity is not absolute. We
aren't lawyers or priests. If corporate management ordered us to
reveal who wrote a note, we would.
3. We *won't* post a note anonymously just because it expresses an
unpopular or controversial opinion. Authors are expected to be
willing to stand behind their opinions.
4. The fact that you are a naturist or have an interest in naturism is
not the sort of personal information that will lead us to post a
note anonymously. We understand and regret that some readers will
feel unable to participate in the conference if they have to
publicly reveal their naturist interests; but it is a principle of
the conference that naturism is not a shameful secret to be
concealed. (As a special exception, we may post an anonymous note
whose sole purpose is to provide information of general interest to
the readers of the conference.)
|
| 2.4 | Commentary on corporate notes policy | MOIRA::FAIMAN | light upon the figured leaf | Thu Jan 30 1992 14:23 | 111 |
| From: Ron Glover, Corporate Personnel Policy Manager
Subj: A Message to Employee Interest Notes File Users
I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date: 29-Jan-1992 11:49am EST
From: RON GLOVER
GLOVER.RON
Dept: Corporate Employee Relations
Tel No: 508-493-9569
TO: Conference Moderators
Subject: A Message to Employee Interest Notes File Users
By way of introduction, I am the Corporate Personnel Policy Manager.
Part of my responsibility includes providing interpretation of Digital's
Personnel Policy, including the Personnel Policy 6.54. I would greatly
appreciate your assistance in posting the attached memo from John Sims in
the Notes files you moderate, and as many other Employee Interest Notes
Files as possible. Please give me a call if you have any questions.
I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date: 30-Jan-1992
From: John Sims
SIMS.JOHN AT A1 at CORA @ CORE
Dept: Strategic Resources
Tel No: 223-7243
TO: Employee Interest Notes File Participants
Subject: A message to employee interest notes file users
A MESSAGE TO EMPLOYEE INTEREST NOTES FILE USERS
Over the last few months I have received a number of complaints
from employees, and individuals outside of the company about
material communicated in electronic mail systems and posted in
various employee interest notes files. After reading some of this
material it is clear that a reminder about appropriate comment and
behavior in these systems is necessary.
First, and most critically; the electronic mail systems and notes
files are company facilities subject to normal workplace rules of
conduct. As such, the same rules that govern conduct and comment
in any other Digital workplace apply with equal weight in these
systems. Stated simply, if you wouldn't say something in a
Digital business meeting, you shouldn't say it in electronic mail
or notes. PERIOD.
Statements that attribute improper, illegal or immoral motives or
actions to others; statements that cast aspersions on the
character or integrity of others or that amount to libel or
slander are not permitted. PERIOD. In this regard, it does not
matter whether the individuals subject to the comment are elected
public officials or directors of organizations disfavored by the
author. There is no "Public Figure" exception in these systems.
Comments of a sexual nature are not acceptable whether they are
about the author or directed at others. Similarly, comments that
degrade, devalue or discriminate against others are also
prohibited.
Neither the notes conferences nor electronic mail should be used
to solicit other employees. This prohibition covers efforts to
solicit employees for personal or political gain, to sell or
market goods or services (except authorized marketplace or
discount conferences) and efforts to solicit employees to take
action, sign petitions or support particular causes or candidates.
Finally, employees should remember that it is never appropriate to
spend working time in employee interest notes for non-work
purposes. Personal or entertainment activities in these notes
files should be limited to assigned break times, lunch time and
before or after business hours.
Employee interest notes files and conferences provide an
electronic forum to share ideas and opinions about matters of
common interest. In supporting these conferences, the company
understood that there would be occasions where employees would
disagree on issues being discussed, but we believed and continue
to believe it is possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
Personnel Policy 6.54, Proper Use of Digital Computers, Systems
and Networks provides further information about appropriate
conduct and comment in these systems. Employees who fail to meet
these expectations, or who use company computer systems in ways
that are contrary to the letter or spirit of that policy are
subject to Corrective Action and Discipline up to and including
the termination of their employment.
The moderators of these conferences, along with your system
managers, personnel representatives and the Personnel Policy
Manager are all available to answer any question you might have
about appropriate use of these systems.
Please feel free to forward this memo to other Digital notes
files and conferences.
Distribution: Selected conference moderators
[Original list deleted]
|
| 2.5 | Anonymous notes | MOIRA::FAIMAN | light upon the figured leaf | Mon Jun 01 1992 16:32 | 56 |
| As an experiment in making this conference more accessible and useful
to its participants, we are going to try relaxing the strict rules
about anonymous notes from 2.3.
If you wish to contribute to the conference, but are unwilling to be
personally identified, you may mail your contribution to any of the
conference moderators (do SHOW MODERATORS for a list of them), asking
that it be posted anonymously. Please specify whether you would like
it posted as a new topic or as a reply to a particular existing topic.
Suggest a title, if you have one in mind.
Please note that the first point from 2.3 remains in effect:
Authors are responsible for the notes that they write in the
NATURISM conference. Each note in the conference must be written
by an identifiable individual.
If you must enter a note from an anonymous or group account
(SYSTEM, FIELD, OPER, GUEST, etc.), please sign your name at the
end of the note, or otherwise make your identity clear.
Some additional points in connection with anonymous posting:
This is a service offered by the moderators. We make no promises.
If we are uncomfortable about a note, we will feel perfectly free
to refuse to post it.
The anonymity of a moderator-posted note is not absolute. The
principle of being responsible for what you write is unchanged.
We will keep a record of the original authors of notes we post
anonymously; if, for some reason, we were ordered by corporate
management to reveal the author of a note, we would do so.
(But we don't expect that we would post a note in the first place,
if we anticipated that such a concern could ever arise about it.)
Mail communication with anonymous authors:
If you wish to send mail to the author of an anonymous note, you
may send it to the moderator who posted the note, and the moderator
will forward the mail to the original author.
You may ask that your mail be forwarded anonymously (without your
original mail header) to the note author. However, that is the
limit of how far we will be involved in anonymous mailing. We
aren't going to get into the anonymous post office business.
Final point: We encourage naturists to participate openly here. One
of the main points of this conference is to demonstrate to our non-
naturist readers that naturists are real people, and that naturism
isn't something to be ashamed of. However, we realize that there are
naturist readers of the conference whose personal situations do not
allow that degree of openness (and non-naturists who don't even want to
admit that they read the conference), so we are making this change to
try opening the conference up to a wider level of participation.
-Neil Faiman, for the NATURISM moderators
|
| 2.6 | Reminder | GENRAL::KILGORE | Me, Fire Woman! | Wed Dec 23 1992 14:28 | 29 |
| From LIVE WIRE December 22, 1992.
Worldwide News
Digital cracks down on misuse of computers, systems, and networks
Digital's systems and network utilities are powerful business tools, which
encourage creativity and the exchange of ideas needed to maintain a
competitive edge. They are intended to support the company's business
activities, to enhance the cost effectiveness and efficient running of the
business, and to help employees be more effective in doing their jobs.
Comment and content in Digital's systems must meet established workplace
standards of behavior, and Digital intends to audit its systems to ensure
that these standards are met. Violations of the company's policies can
result in corrective action and discipline up to and including termination
of employment.
Recently, employees involved in the transmission of pornographic material
through Digital's computer systems and networks were immediately terminated.
The investigation of that case continues, and others found to be involved
will also be terminated.
The worldwide policy on "Proper Use of Digital's Computers, Systems and
Networks" is published in the U.S. in the "Orange Book" of Personnel
Policies and Procedures (6.54) and can be accessed through the Corporate
Videotex Library. Employees are encouraged to read and understand this
policy and to discuss any questions with their manager or Personnel
consultant.
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