Rules for Online Conduct
By participating in any of McCoyPottery Online's Mailing Lists, you agree to follow our Rules for Online Conduct. We ask all of our users to work with us to make this a useful and positive place for everyone.

1. The List Administrator has the final say
   The List Administrator is responsible for maintaining the level of content quality and interaction within the list. Each List Administrator welcomes your opinions and comments, and reserves the right to edit, delete, or remove users from the list who are not adhering to our Rules for Online Conduct.

   The List Administrator is responsible for monitoring the list. When appropriate they will close out a discussion or declare a topic inappropriate for the list.

   If you have a problem with something going on, contact the List Administrator. List users can make suggestions to the List Administrator, but only the Administrator can set policy, and the List Administrator has final say.

2. Stay on topic
   The purpose of the mailing list is to share information related to a particular topic. When contributing, please keep all contributions related to the topic of the list.
3. Use appropriate language.
   We ask users to be sensitive to others and keep their language under control. These are public forums and we ask that the language used on our lists be appropriate for public usage.

   The purpose of this list is to constructively communicate and discuss issues of common interest. We do not tolerate bullying, harassment, abusive or insulting posts, or any attempt to intimidate others or prevent them from expressing their views.

   Please allow others the ability to to express their views as they allow you to express yours.

   Private e-mail is held to the same standards as list postings: If we get complaints about a user sending private e-mail that is abusive or harassing, the user sending the abusive e-mail may be removed from the list.

   If a List Administrator asks you to tone down your language, please cooperate.

4. Do not post copyrighted material
   It's illegal to post material from newspapers, magazines, online services or wire services to mailing list. Unless you have explicit permission to redistribute the information, do not post it to any mailing lists. We suggest users post the URL to the article and a short summary of the article to the list and allow users to go look up the original source themselves.

   For more information on copyrighted material, and what you can and cannot legally do, we recommend you visit the Nolo Press page on copyrights at http://www.nolo.com/nn197.html, or http://www.clari.net/brad/copymyths.html. You can also get information on copyrights and fair use at Stanford's Copyright and Fair Use site at http://fairuse.stanford.edu/.

   Repeat offenders will be removed from the list.

5. Do not post virus warnings!
   Most of the virus warnings distributed around the net are hoaxes.

   Do not post it yourself under any circumstances. These warnings should be sent to the List Administrator for evaluation.

   Any user who posts a virus warning will be removed from the lists. (please take a hint that we're serious about stamping this garbage out).

   For more information on viruses and Internet hoaxes, please see:

   • CIAC's Internet Hoaxes page
   • The Computer Virus Myth page
6. Do not post chain letters
   Chain letters are not permitted on any of our mailing lists. If you post a chain letter of any type, you will be kicked off the list. This includes forwarding any kind of mass mailing, any message encouraging users to contact a user or group or any message that encourages others to re-send the letter to other people or lists.

   Hint: Craig Shergold is not a kid, not sick, and whatever hospital the latest version of this hoax is attached to is sick and tired of getting the postcards.

7. Use of e-mail addresses of our list subscribers.
   We explicitly deny permission for any person or organization to use the e-mail addresses of our subscribers for any purpose other than communicating with them about messages posted to the mailing list. Our users have subscribed to the mailing lists because they are interested in the topic of the list. Their e-mail addresses may be used for no other purpose.

   They may not be placed in any database, or used in any way that is independent of our mailing lists. Our mailing lists are private, proprietary data, and we will do everything in our power to protect them from misuse, abuse, or spamming.

   Anyone found violating this policy, or found sending commercial mail to addresses taken from our lists, will be banned from our lists as a spammer and reported to their site admins.