                          Abduction Digest, Number 16
 
                             Monday, July 8th 1991
 
Today's Topics:
 
                               Posting Guidelines
                               **** Warning *****

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Subject: Posting Guidelines
Date: 28 Jun 91 01:58:52 GMT


New readers are always joining Paranet. 

For their benefit, allow me to review the rules of posting which we ask
all our users to adopt: 


                   ******* PARANET ECHO POLICIES ********

The following are guidelines  for the operation of the Paranet Echos on 
member boards. Please take a moment to read (and understand) these 
policies. If we'll adopt these attitudes, we'll have a more polite, 
effective network. 

1. No anonymous messages may be posted on the network.   Some Paranet BBS's 
   allow users to use "handles", and  USENET  users  have no opportunity to
   place their names in the "From" field. If a user uses a handle, then all
   posts to  Paranet  Echos must be signed at the  end of the message using
   the user's REAL NAME. In  the  case  of  USENET  posts, it would help to
   place the  ADDRESSEE's REAL NAME in the subject field. It is the respon-
   sibility of the Sysop of each Paranet Node to enforce this  requirement,
   either  by  reviewing  all  messages  before  release, or by disallowing
   Paranet access to users using handles. 

2. Personal Attacks  are *NOT* allowed in the Net. In any echo dealing with 
   issues as emotional as those with which we deal it is a matter of course 
   that  the validity of testimony on the part of certain individuals  will 
   be  called into question.  It is important,  however,  to remember  that 
   *ALL* parties are to be treated with respect.  If you wish to question a 
   person's validity, state your reservations AS YOUR OPINION. For example: 
   "John  Doe  is  a totally unreliable witness"  could leave  you  legally 
   vulnerable.  "I BELIEVE John Doe to be a totally unreliable witness"  is 
   much better,  especially if you can add "because...".  Please be careful 
   how  you  judge  the  parties  involved,  and  attempt  to  defend  your 
   contentions. 

3. Any user who is found to have knowingly and deliberately posted false or 
   misleading  information  regarding  the  activities of the United States 
   Government,  its intelligence  agencies and/or operatives,  with respect 
   to the investigation of UFOs or other related matters,  will  be  locked
   out  of  the  network  immediately   and  permanently,  and  their  name
   circulated to other UFO investigatory groups. 

3.1 Since  Paranet  echos are exported to a number of countries  around the
   world, it should be noted that  Federal Law  prohibits the revelation of
   "National Secrets" to "Foreign Governments".   For this reason,  we must
   insist that material which might violate the National Secrets Act not be
   posted in the echos. All sensitive material believed to be of legitimate
   interest to Paranet researches should be delievered via  NETMAIL to Mike
   Corbin at Paranet Administration for review and subsequent release.

4. Direct Flames  are  best posted elsewhere. They will not be tolerated in 
   the echos.

5. References  should be included if required for clarity.  Some users tend 
   to  copy  the  entirity of previous messages  before  responding,  while 
   others  never  quote anything and simply make  comments  about  previous 
   posts.   You  should remember that many boards don't hold  all  messages 
   forever.  Quote (if your software  allows it)  or  at  least  paraphrase 
   (write  a  simple summary of) the content  of  the message you refer to.  
   Please  DO NOT  quote the  entire  message,  as this is just expense for 
   all boards concerned.  Quote only the germaine material. 

6. Please make  all  messages conform to the specified content of the  Echo 
   Area in which you are posting.  Putting  the  messages in the right pile
   makes it MUCH easier to make sense out of the stacks of messages. 
   
7. Enforcement.  Users who violate these guidelines will  be advised of the 
   lapse by the Echo Moderator. After three violation notices,  the user is 
   to be locked out of Paranet areas by the sysop.  A FIRST lockout will be 
   for  THIRTY DAYS.  A  SECOND lockout will be for NINETY days.  The THIRD 
   lockout  will  be PERMANENT.  Sysops who refuse to lock out  troublesome 
   users  can be dropped from the net by the Paranet Administrator.   Users 
   who  believe  the Moderator has been unfair in requesting a lockout  can 
   request  that  their Sysop plead their case in the Sysop Echo.  In  such 
   cases,  ALL net Sysops will be asked to vote on the matter.  Vote of the 
   net is binding on all concerned. 

Doug Rogers
Echo Moderator




--  
Doug Rogers - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
INTERNET: Doug.Rogers@p0.f1.n606.z1.FIDONET.ORG



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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: **** Warning *****
Date: 7 Jul 91 23:30:00 GMT


 * Forwarded from "Fido UFO Echo"
 * Originally from Mike Mansfield
 * Originally dated 07-05-91 23:20

     In a recent 'research study' done by UTMB Neuropsychology Galveston on the
effects of migrane headaches upon lifestyle, a few CURIOUS questions arose, 
being that my wife was a participant, she was able to relay this information to 
me.  (She had recently been scheduled for a Cat Scan to diagnose unusual 
migrane headaches)
  The questionairres were in general, mostly generic, but the following 
questions were asked that make me feel *perhaps* something more is being 
studied than just headaches...
  1) Have you ever felt you were being watched?
next question was a clincher...
  2) Do you believe in Extraterrestrial life?

I see little reason that such questions should be included in a purely 
scientific study unless the medical profession has turned 180 degrees and 
suddenly believes in extraterrestrials...

  (still waiting for the results of the Cat-Scan... although I wonder if we'll 
get to see what was actually taken, or not...)

--  
Michael Corbin - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name
INTERNET: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG



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