|                   \ Global Village BBS Policy /
|                    ===========================
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 General
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| Every user who uses Global Village BBS commits himself to observe and 
| follow the policy in all its items.
|
| Among others, the Global Village BBS can be reached via telnet
| (globalonline.org).  The  use  of  Global Village BBS  is free of charge.
| Eventually arising  costs  for establishing or maintaining the connection
| to Global Village BBS have to be beared by the user himself; the staff of
| Global Village BBS cannot be charged with these costs.
|
| It is prohibited to reach, change or delete files of Global Village BBS,
| its program files or userdata-files by the use of illegal means, e.g.
| hacking. 
| The use of Global Village  BBS takes place on the user's own risk. In no 
| case  the staff of  Global Village BBS  can  be  held  responsible or be 
| subject to  indemnification.  For all  activities that  originate in the 
| user's account the user takes the full responsibility.
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 Userdata
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| At the first login to Global Village BBS, the system requires the input of
| some data from the user.  All information given to the system by the user,
| has to  be  entered  correctly.  For the correctness of this data the user
| takes responsibility.
|
| In the configuration  menu  of  Global Village BBS and at the first logon,
| there is the possibility to  hide  the  data, so that it cannot be seen by 
| other  users. Sysops  or Supervisors,  however,  can read this data at any 
| time.
|
| If a staff  member  of  Global Village BBS  (Sysop or SuperVisor) for some
| reason  gets  knowledge  that  the  data  entered by the user is wrong, he 
| reserves  the  right  to  raise  objections  against  the  user,  refuse
| admittance to Global Village BBS or delete his account.
| 
| Sysops  and  SuperVisors  have the obligation to keep secret all data. If
| however, through hacking or theft of the hard disk drive,  the  userdata-
| gets to a third party, the staff of Global Village BBS can in no case take
| responsibility for it.
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 Communication in Global Village BBS
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| Among  others, in  Global Village BBS there is the possibilty to talk with
| another user or write texts publicly available in a  room (post). If these
| texts seem to be inclined in a racist way, are  offensive for other users,
| don't meet the  subject in  the  room, or are simply publicly not welcome,
| then a Roomaide, Sysop  and  SuperVisor  reserve the right to move, censor
| or delete the text(s).
|
| Basic  precondition  for  the use of Global Village BBS is furthermore the
| observance of the general laws of the Republic of Austria.
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 Violations
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| If a user of Global Village BBS violates these guidelines, he will be either
|
|  -  warned per e-mail, post in the mail-room or post in the particular room,
|  -  locked out of the room for a certain time,
|  -  banished from the BBS for a certain time,
|  -  or deleted.
|
| If a user believes that he has been punished wrongfully, he can lodge
| anappeal within 7 days by Yell or e-mail.
|