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[Last updated on: Tue Feb 3 13:45:00 1998]

Dear New VNForumor,

WELCOME to VNForum. We are happy to have you with us!

This message contains everything you need to know concerning
VNForum and its policies and rules.

VNForum is a discussion network of issues related to
Vietnam and the Vietnamese people. VNForum is owned and
operated by the VAEF (Vietnamese American Education
Foundation) and is run by a group of administrators
who are VAEF members.

VNForum members include academics and professionals from
many establishments around the world: universities,
international institutions, government agencies, non-profit
organizations, NGOs, corporations, international institutions.
In addition, a number of VNForum subscribers are actually
relaying addresses for local networks in cities, universities
or corporations around the world.

We know that you will find this forum to be friendly, serious,
well disciplined, informative, stimulating and intellectually
challenging. We hope that the discussions are beneficial
to you and we look forward to your contribution.

The VNForum administrators are here to help you.
If there is ever anything we can do for you,
please feel free to send us a note at v
nforum-adm@vnforum.org.

Please familiarize yourself with the Forum's policy and
rules to avoid embarrassing discipline problems and to
be more productive in the Forum. The following text
contains four major parts: VNForum General Policy,
VNForum Code of Conduct, Frequently Asked Questions
and their Answers, and Technical Instructions.

VNFORUM GENERAL POLICY

The first goal of the Forum is to be a friendly and
intellectual conference where constructive discussions
on Vietnam-related projects and issues are carried on.

The second goal of the Forum is to promote the flow of
different ideas on the discussed matters in order to enrich
the intellectual life of all Forumors.

VNForum is content-neutral. All opinions are allowed in the
forum, provided they conform with VNForum's Code of Conduct and
policies concerning friendliness and intellectuality mentioned
above.

If you use a free email account (such as Juno, Rocketmail,
Hotmail, iNAME, and the likes), you will not be able to
post your messages to VNForum. You can read VNForum
messages only.

VNFORUM CODE OF CONDUCT

1. Each Forum member shall act in a polite and courteous manner
   toward every other member and administrator.


2. Administrators are, among other functions, rule enforcers and
   judges in the Forum.


3. Only messages concerning issues related, or of significance,
   to Vietnam or overseas Vietnamese communities are allowed in the Forum.


4. The following messages and conduct are prohibited:
   
   
   
   
   1. personal attacks,
   
   
   2. defamatory statements,
   
   
   3. inflammatory statements,
   
   
   4. statements and conduct likely to create disorder,
      damage the integrity or reputation of the Forum,
      or harm the Forum or any Forum member in any way,
   
   
   5. discussions about any or all administrators or Forum
      organizers,
   
   
   6. messages arguing with any or all administrators on an
      administrative ruling.
   
   
   
   
   
5. English and Vietnamese are the official languages in the Forum.
   For the benefit of non-Vietnamese speakers, English is considered the
   primary language. Forum members are encouraged to use English whenever
   possible.


6. Any message posted in the Forum can be forwarded to non-members
   only with the author's consent.


7. Cross-posting between VNForum and other forums is discouraged.


8. Disciplinary measures: Violations of these rules of conduct
   may result in the following disciplinary measures (in a scale increasing
   in weight):
   
   
   
   
   1. private warning
   
   
   2. public warning
   
   
   3. temporary suspension
   
   
   4. permanent suspension
   
   
   
   The above disciplinary measures need not be administered in any
   particular order. The administrator(s) shall determine what measure is
   appropriate for the offense at issue.


9. 
   Appeal
   A disciplined member may appeal a disciplinary ru
   ling by,
   within a week from the issuance of such ruling, sending an appeal note to
   the full panel of administrators at vnforum-adm@vnforum.org, presenting
   clearly (1) the reasons why the ruling should be modified and (2) what
   the member would like the panel to do, i.e., overturning the ruling,
   or modifying the ruling in some respect. The panel shall respond to
   such appeal within a week from the receipt of the appeal note.


10. 
    
    
    
    1. All administrators currently available for active duties
       constitute the full panel of administrators. A vote of the majority of
       the full panel constitutes the vote of the panel.
    
    
    2. If a disciplinary ruling is public, the disciplined member
       may choose to make his appeal public or private. If the ruling is
       private, the appeal must be private.
    
    
    3. The panel may choose to respond to an appeal either
       privately or publicly.
    
    


11. Only the disciplined member, and no other person, has standing
    to appeal or otherwise challenge a disciplinary ruling.


12. These rules of conduct are subject to change from time to
    time as the administrators deem necessary for the fair and beneficial
    administration of the Forum. These rules may be amended only by a
    decision of the full panel of administrators.

1. First, we hope you have already read
   VNForum General Policy and VNForum
   Code of Conduct.


2. It is better to observe the Forum
   for a while to get yourself familiar
   with the Forum and Forumors before
   sending in your first posting.


3. If you have a large (over 30 kbytes) file
   to share with the list, do NOT post it directly
   to the Forum without an administrator's prior
   permission. Some student accounts have a
   limited amount of storage space. The best
   way is to break your long message into a series.


4. To help our/your readers, please place
   
   
   
   
   1. the category code for your subject and
   
   
   2. a subject title on the subject line of your
      postings.
      Example:
      Subject: [POL] Vietnam-U
      S relations.
      Some suggested codes for subject categories:
      [POL]
      = Politics
      [ECON] = Economics
      [PSYCH]= psychology
      [SOC] = Sociology
      [LIT] = literature
      [POE
      T] = poetry
      [MUSIC]= Music
      [ENG] = Engineeringr/>[COMP] = Computer
      [EDU] = Education
      [FIN] = F
      inance
      [NEWS] = News
      
   
   

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