Posting Guidelines

Here are the list posting guidelines. Please read them in their entirety at least once!

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
By sending messages to this list you explicitly agree to the following conditions regarding original content written by you for distribution to the Euro2002 Discussion List:

1. The Tenagra Corporation reserves the right to accept or reject any submission, in whole or in part, to the List at its sole discretion. The Tenagra Corporation may from time to time edit submissions for the purpose of length or clarity in a manner including but not limited to removing excessive signatures, providing appropriate subject lines, removing excessive quotes from previously posted articles, and editing spelling and/or grammar.

2. The act of your submitting a post implicitly implies your certification to us that you own or have release of rights for all material submitted in the post.

3. You agree to hold harmless and unconditionally indemnify The Tenagra Corporation and the list moderator against and from all liability, costs, expenses, claims and damages which The Tenagra Corporation may suffer or become liable from as a result of posting your submission to the list. This includes but is not limited to claims of copyright infringement or actionable defamation.

4. submission of material to the list constitutes permission for non-exclusive, perpetual rights for electronic distribution of your material only in the form of archives, where your material is part of the archive.

5. Tenagra, The Tenagra Corporation and the list moderators disclaim all responsibility for the accuracy or ownership of material submitted to the Euro2002 Discussion List.

SUBJECTS APPROPRIATE FOR THIS LIST
If you have heard some news about the Euro/EMU conversion or European eCommerce that you think others would be interested in, please pass it along. If you've seen an interesting article online about the Euro or European eCommerce, send in the URL (not the article!) so others can look it up on the web. If you have a question about the Euro from either a political or technical standpoint, please feel free to submit it to the list.

Your messages should be succinct and to the point.

REJECTED POSTS
If the moderator rejects a post, he can't always take the time to explain why on a case-by-case basis. Usually posts are rejected because of the following:

1.) it has nothing to do with Euro/EMU issues, or European eCommerce,

2.) it is too self-serving; completely lacking any substantive advice,

3.) it is taken directly from copyrighted sources (we can get into legal trouble for this; best to give the name of the source and URL),

4.) others have already made a similar point,

5.) it is something too basic for discussion on this list (i.e. what is the Euro?),

6.) we have already discussed it in great depth before,

7.) the post does not have a proper subject line, or repeats too much of a previous posting. Posts sent in with subjects like:

Subject: Re: euro2002-discuss digest: August 12, 1999

will not be forwarded to the list no matter how cogent they may be. Signatures should be no more than 8 lines in length or the moderator may indiscriminately crop them. Messages should not have blank subject lines.

8.) the post is a reply that is really only of value to the person being replied to. In such cases, please e-mail the person directly rather than trying to post your response to the whole list,

9.) the post makes statements that create the potential of involving Tenagra in a lawsuit,

10.) the English is so poor that the moderator can't understand the message,

11.) it is a survey or request from a market researcher asking for feedback on a company's product or service (unless something is offered to the list members for participating).

If you have a business connection to a product or service mentioned in your post, this should be clear to anyone reading the message.

If you quote material, quote it accurately, name the source when possible and be sure to note where you have omitted material.

Please do not quote the entirety of the original message in your reply. Usually, most people really have been paying attention and may need only a pertinent sentence to bring them into context with your comments.

Please limit the size of your signatures. Extraneous text is usually not regarded favorably. Please limit your signature file to 8 lines or less.

No vitriol or ad hominem attacks -- This is a professional resource and we all realize that e-mail is a medium in which it is easy to over-react; it does not support the visual cues we need to comprehend communication to any level of depth. This is where "flaming" arises and we would ask that you attempt to err on the side of moderation in your replies. We need to "get along" before we can maximize the value of this resource.

Limit rehashing -- there is a wealth of information on the variety of topics related to the Euro and European eCommerce. While the moderator will strive to direct the conversation along appropriate paths, there is a tendency to restate issues and topics that have been "done to death" before, both on this list (as it grows) and elsewhere online. The moderator will attempt to point respondents to the source of information most appropriate to their needs rather than burden the entire list with a restatement of known issues.

Please put an appropriate subject on your message. Messages should not have blank subject lines and replies should not read Re: euro2002-discuss digest: ... Instead, please title your response to be Re: followed by the subject of the actual message to which you are responding.

Please do not send unsolicited email advertisements to people that post on this list. Posting in this forum is _not_ an invitation to be sent spam, and those that engage in such practices will likely do themselves more harm than good. Many of the list participants refuse to patronize businesses that send unsolicited advertisements via email.

Please also note that this is a public forum. All posts are publicly accessible from the list's web site, and are or soon will be indexed by the major search engines.

This list is now closed.