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Bulletin Board Rules & Policies


This board while open to the public for reading is *NOT* open to the public for posting.  
You may post to this board ONLY if you agree to abide by the guidelines below. 
If your message has been removed it is because you have broken this agreement,
by breaking one or more of the guidelines. 

Guidelines for Participation:
 
• No offensive language.
• No offensive user names.
• No personal attacks (or harassment of other posters).
• No messages that are unkind or in poor taste.
• No advertising or promotion of any kind of commercial services.
• No religious advertising or promotion of any kind.

These are general guidelines for Bulletin Board participation. 
The webmaster or acting webmaster reserves the right to delete, 
at his or her discretion, posts and threads that do not abide by the Guidelines.
Their judgment is final and will not be a subject for discussion on the BBS.
Any questions regarding deletions or BBS policy should be addressed directly via email to 
the webmaster . Attempts to argue policy on the BBS may result in the blocking of said poster.
 
We  reserve the right to block any participant who consistently ignores our guidelines.

It is the policy of this bbs not to allow posts which vent anger or cast allegations against another person or private organization whether justified or not. The purpose of this board is to allow discussions of issues; it can not be used to discuss personal disputes with local businesses or individuals. Example: You can safely write angry words about Enron, or elected officials, but not specifically about your husband, doctor,  or local delicatessen! 

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The small print:

On an anonymous board such as this, flames will arise, tempers may flare, and words may be written that are of an offensive nature. In all cases, any messages that contain offensive personal allegations toward any poster on this board will be removed as soon as possible at the discretion of the webmaster and will not be discussed on the BBS. Due to the nature of this BBS and the way the software has been written, all responses to the offensive message will also be removed; so if you encounter a personally offensive message please do not respond to it, as your response will most likely also be removed.

The current legal issues regarding defamation and libel resulting from exposure on an Internet BBS state that if a libelous message is  removed in a 'reasonable' amount of time, there are no grounds for defamation. A 'reasonable' amount of time has been loosely defined as two days. These legal archives are readily available on the Internet. Considering the real-time anonymous nature of this bulletin board (BBS), it is impossible for us to review messages other than on a periodic basis, but anything that even hints at defamation will be removed as soon as it comes to our attention.

Please understand that every time you post on this board anonymously or otherwise, you leave a log file which indicates when and where the post was made from. In the event of a libel or defamation of character suit you can be held responsible for what you write. So please be careful: when you identify another person and say something bad about him/her, that is defamation of character. You don't have to name that person, as long as people would know whom you are talking about. For example you wouldn't have to name John Jones if instead you referred to him as the owner of Jones's Department Store.

Posted messages express the views of the author , not  the views of this BBS or any entity associated with this BBS. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a ' reasonable' time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that we may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.

This is not a public BBS. It is owned and operated by BandonbytheSea.com for the sole purpose of discussion of issues. BandonbytheSea.com reserves the right to remove any message it deems unfit for general publication, either because of content or implication. We are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message.

You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this BBS to post any material which is knowingly defamatory, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually explicit, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this BBS or credit is given to the rightful creator. You further agree that you will not use this board for any proselytizing or preaching of any religious teaching or doctrine, as there are many thousands of those to be found on the Internet. Finally, you agree that anything you post on this BBS becomes part of the Public Domain upon publication. Commercial advertising is not permitted. If exchange of money or property is involved or implied please use the BandonbytheSea.com Classified BBS. Your use of the board implies your agreement to abide by all rules posted on this page.

 

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