Welcome to my Netiquette Home Page at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) as you tour the Web. I hope this information will be useful for yourself and those you work with. Please see the Preface section for information regarding duplication of this guide.
For more information on how the guide was created see Guidelines and Internet Culture.
For a good Internet tutorial, see Paradesa Media Publications -
The Essential Internet Online Guide
I receive requests for further explanation of some of the standard rules that are in the document, so if you'd like to see those, you are welcome to see my Questions/Answers section.
If you would like more information on the how to access the full guide, through mail, ftp, and gopher, please see Access Information.
I frequently get asked to consult organizations on developing Ethics Policies. Generally I would point them to the Ethics Policies of other universities or network organizations. Recently at FAU we had 5 separate incidences of network abuses that originated from a student run Usenet newsfeed system called Cybernet. Cybernet had the domain address of FAU.EDU and Information Resource Management (IRM) was contacted by the Internet Computer Emergency Response Team, regarding the abuses which were effecting the reputation of FAU on the Internet.
To make a *very* long story short. I worked with Wes Morgan, who had developed a network policy for U of Kentucky that had never been approved by his organization, and developed the Computer Network Policy . This has been approved by IRM and beginning in January, 1995 all students, faculty and staff receiving accounts must sign this prior to getting their accounts. I thought that this might be useful for other organizations as well.
The Network Computing Policy in Postscript version in now available. Organizations can use and copy this in its entirety onto their letterhead stationery. It is "standard" enough to be used by any organization where users access network services.
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