On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:16:07 +1000, "Chris Cason"
<new### [at] deletethispovrayorg> wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I generally take a hands-off approach to the administration of this
>news server, in the (correct) belief that it will in general self-
>moderate. This has worked fairly well for more than five years. As
>a rule I do not read the groups in detail and rely on community and
>co-admin's feedback to let me know what's going on.
>
>In particular please be aware that I am not about to get into writing
>legalistic AUP's that get ignored (or mis-interpreted) anyhow.
>
>I want to make it clear right now that I will *not* accept any ongoing
>behaviour (particularly in the groups outside off-topic) that could
>end up in either -
>
>  (a) the web view of these groups being "net-nannied" by blocking
>      sites (for all I know this has already happened),
>
>  (b) the site downgraded or mis-classified by search engines such as
>      Google due to the presence of discussions on certain topics that
>      do not belong here, or
>
>  (c) that would cause average users to want to avoid the server or
>      group in question.
>
>In case the fairly "open-ended" nature of the above statement causes
>concern, sorry, but I'm not going to turn it into a formal AUP nor am
>I willing to argue the definition of what an 'average user' is and what
>one would or would not like to see. I am expecting common sense to
>prevail here. While I understand that some involved in art like to, on
>occasions, 'push the boundary' of taste, and that this is an accepted
>practice on some other servers, it is not acceptable here.
>
>Over the years this server has turned into not only a superb form of
>support for POV-Ray but also a real community of people, which is a
>thing I am happy to see and which I want to preserve. Those who would
>choose to disturb that sense of community (whether intentionally or
>not) are asked to revise their ways.
>
>For the benefit of new users reading this message and wondering what
>right I have to make these statements, or who want to get into some
>sort of argument over 'free speech': please be advised that this is
>a privately-owned computer system which happens to host some discussion
>groups. The old saying "my server, my rules" is a blunt but nevertheless
>accurate depiction of the situation. People connect to this system (and
>their posts remain on its hard disk) by invitation. Please keep this in
>mind.
>
>-- Chris Cason
>   News server administrator
>   [followups set to povray.general]
>

Please clarify one point:

Does posting links to adult imagery break these standards/rules?

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