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Guidelines for posting to the Waterways Mailing List

The Waterways mailing-list is a forum where everything and anything of waterways interest is up for debate. Please contribute your knowledge and or post your observations or queries. There are no daft questions (really!).

Email and a web-based forum are no different from other forms of communication, save that your words are likely to be read by a lot more people. Those readers include the subscribers to the list, many of whom you won't know, anyone to whom a subscriber may choose to forward some item of information and any visitor to our forum or archive. The laws of libel and defamation apply here just as much as to other forms of communication, so please avoid all defamatory remarks.

Additionally, please conduct all dialogues in a courteous manner - there are many users of our waterways with many differing perspectives on life and waterways issues. Haranguing others and tit-for-tat sniping is discouraged.

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The purpose of this list is to provide a forum for the discussion of matters generally relating to inland waterways and in particular (though not exclusively), the inland waterways of Ireland.

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1. You will not use the list to propagate any material that might be considered vulgar, illegal, fraudulent, defamatory, threatening or abusive.
2. You will conduct email exchanges in a civil and courteous manner.
3. You will not use the list for any commercial purposes with the exception of an occasional short announcement of the availability of a significant new product or service or as a direct response to a query from another subscriber.
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7. You will identify yourself as the source of any submissions you make and not attempt to hide your identity or to impersonate another.
8. IWAI is not responsible for the accuracy of information submitted to this list. Information submitted to this list is the opinion of the subscribers themselves and may not represent the official position of the association. Technical information may or may not be accurate.

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1. This list is provided as a service and a resource to its subscribers by IWAI and the association makes no guarantees as to the availability, reliability or continued operation of the service.
2. Breach of any of the above rules will result in you being removed from the list.
3. Interpretation of these rules is at the discretion of the list moderator(s) and the list moderator's decision is final.
4. Censorship: Please note that since the contents of emails and posts will be indexed by search engines (although we could also exclude them…), we may take a more proactive role in monitoring the content of posts.  i.e. we may decide that potentially defamatory, rude, incivil, untrue, unkind etc.remarks have been made or indeed that a discussion is descending into some morass of incivility and we may as a result delete “offending” posts or threads.   We ask for your forbearance if we appear to be too trigger-happy or heavy handed.  We have the best interests of the IWAI in mind (even if our actions as moderators appear to you to be wrong!).
   
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