Discussion Forums Code of Conduct

Infoxchange Australia hosts a range of moderated and un-moderated online discussion forums where members have the rights and responsibilities associated with open discussion and public exchange. The following rules and guidelines exist to ensure the success of forums. The goal of the forums is to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to participate in discussion of issues by providing a fair and neutral space that most members will find of value in the information exchange.

While contributors to forums implicitly agree to share their intellectual property through the forums and their respective archives, the writers retain all the copyright privileges of their messages. This is to ensure appropriate credits and promote full public access and awareness of the relevant forum. It is the responsibility of the author of the original contribution to bring violations to the attention of Infoxchange Australia's Site Administrator at :

admin@infoxchange.net.au

Rules

1. All contributions to forums should include the sender's real name as all or part of the author's signature.
2. Private messages should not be forwarded to forums without the permission of the author.
3. No insults, threats, inflamed language or personal argument are permitted.
4. Contributions of a personal or offensive nature will be removed from forums.
5. Quotations of previous posts may not exceed 5 lines, or the additional lines will be stripped off automatically. Note that the web-based caucus system contains all previous posts, so quoting is unnecessary

Guidelines

1. Contributions must be within the scope of the forums purposes. Members should not post excessively on any one day. Excessive postings include more than 75 lines (normal format) or more than 5 posts per day; more than that can strain e-mail subscriber's mailboxes. Please be kind!
2. Where users are posting to un-moderated forums, the responsibility to understand what is within the forum scope lies with the person posting the message.
3. Complaints about a forum member's behaviour should be directed to the Administrator at admin@infoxchange.net.au These complaints should not be posted publicly to forums.

Removal from the Forum

1. A participant may be removed by the Administrator for breaking forum rules.
2. The Administrator is not responsible for monitoring every post and will only review whether a subscriber has broken the rules upon receiving a complaint to: admin@infoxchange.net.au The WWW system contains all the postings and information needed to review whetherthe rules have been broken.