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The SBMUG-list is a discussion forum for the Santa Barbara Macintosh Users' Group to share Mac-related information and experiences. This list has become an excellent resource for troubleshooting, exchanging timely information, mingling with like-minded people and getting the best out of your Mac. To subscribe to the list: SBMUG-list Info.

To unsubscribe, change delivery to a digest format, suspend delivery while you're on vacation, or to change or get a reminder of your password: SBMUG-list Options.

Subscribers to the list can also read prior messages in the SBMUG-list Archives.

“Netiquette” on the SBMUG List

As hosts of this gathering, the SBMUG Board holds certain expectations regarding the appropriate tone, style and content of our subscribers' posts. As a Macintosh User Group, we expect posts to this List to fall within the following three general categories:

Help with specific problems using Macintosh computers.
Questions and information on other Macintosh-related topics.
Buying and selling Macintosh-related items.

Please note that although subscribers may offer specific equipment and services to the List, or share an exceptional bargain they have discovered, explicitly commercial postings are prohibited. [Please see the addendum below.] For example, List members may mention the availability of commercial services or products on the List -- but not prices. However, when private individuals offer personal equipment for sale, they may include prices. (Of course, all further correspondence regarding services or products should be conducted privately, not on the List.) It should also be understood that SBMUG makes no claim regarding services or products offered by members of this List.

We expect discussions here to remain focused, but not so tightly that we can't all enjoy the occasional friendly digression. We are an informal community of people helping people, and while Macintosh-related topics are our primary common interest, we have no problem with a little peripheral chatter, as long as everyone stays friendly. However, we maintain that posting to this List is a privilege, not a right, and we reserve the right to exclude any subscribers whose contributions disrupt the harmony we strive to promote.

For more detailed discussions on the points of Netiquette supported here, please refer to Mailing List Manners 101 by Adam C. Engst at TidBITS.

Signed:

Mac Bakewell, President
Ed Togami, Vice President
Robert Winokur, Secretary & Webmaster
Jim Tinsley, Treasurer
Pia Oliver, Program Chair
Anita Donohoe, Newsletter Editor
Ed Morin, Member at Large
Brian Carlin, Member at Large
Paul Cronshaw, List Administrator

February 8, 2001

Addendum: Advertising on the List

We, the SBMUG board, have recently reviewed the issue of advertising on the SBMUG List Server, and have voted in favor of the following resolution:

Reasoning:

Apple is a for-profit corporation, and every Macintosh reseller has the potential to contribute to Apple's success, without which there would be no Macintosh computers and thus no Mac User Groups.
Supporting our local, independent Apple resellers and product vendors should be among our objectives as a Macintosh User Group.

Conclusion:

We should encourage authorized establishments like the MacMechanic and the MacSource to post announcements to this List in the nature and spirit of MacSource's OS 9.1 update CD's, and MacMechanic's Midnight Madness Sale.
This is not a blanket endorsement of all advertising or regular postings of advertising by any vendors to this List; it applies only to special merchandise and events, and special offers to the SBMUG group.
Local vendors are encouraged to post "problem solutions" to questions posted on this List, whether their reply be in the nature of sharing knowledge and experience, or offering a product which will provide a solution.
Therefore, and effective immediately, we are repealing our previously rigid restrictions on posts which might be construed as advertising. This privilege applies only to local, authorized Apple resellers and vendors of Macintosh products with bona-fide established businesses in our local area, and carries the understanding that these vendors will appreciate and respect our desire to keep discussions of prices off-list.

Signed:

March 21, 2001

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