Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Plain English Description
From:    Surgical Steel #1 @129
Date:    Tue Feb 23, 2021 17:39

-=> SURGICAL STEEL #1 @129 wrote to RUSHFAN #100 @1 (RUSHFAN) <=-

 SS@> # Code of Conduct

 SS@> This section *only* pertains to traffic that passes through the network
 SS@> WWIVnet. It claims no scope or authority over messages or activity that
 SS@> does not enter the network.

What you do on your own BBS is your problem. We only care about traffic
that goes across the network.  Please note that BBS names and metadata
*are* traffic that goes across the network.

 SS@> Each SYSOP is responsible for the actions and messages of any user
 SS@> originating from thier system when those messages enter WWIVnet. If
 SS@> any SYSOP allows traffic to enter the WWIVnet via their system (e.g.
 SS@> from a program, gateway, or other source), that SYSOP is responsible
 SS@> for that traffic.

This devolves responsibility to the lowest possible point. It also
matches other network's policies.

 SS@> Permitting the following traffic over the network can result in
 SS@> disciplinary action, including but not limited to expulsion of the
 SS@> system from WWIVnet:

Including but not limited to.  Therefore, it reduces the possibility of
someone trying to poison a system's traffic to try to get them expelled.

 SS@> * Illegal activity, defined as engaging in conduct that a reasonable
 SS@> person would deem that violates applicable federal, state, local, or
 SS@> international law or regulation. When a question of locality is in
 SS@> question, the locality shall be the physical location of 1@1.

Reasonable person standard is well established. We should pick a location,
since all network traffic goes through @1, that's where I picked.

 SS@> * Harmful code, defined as code that may be deemed harmful, dangerous,
 SS@> or destructive in any manner. An exception is made for *clearly
 SS@> labeled* samples for forensic and educational purposes, where
 SS@> significant action must be taken by a user to activate the payload.

E.g. "I zipped it in a password protected zip file so you could test your
antivirus" (something that I literally did last week, thanks Paulie!) is
just fine, but sending malicious code or exploits is not.

 SS@> * Other activities that may harm WWIVnet, as determined by 1@1 and the
 SS@> collective SYSOPs of WWIVnet.

What we called "rule 8" on the Minecraft server, or as an actual rule in
SFWA. Basically, if someone finds a loophole and is trying to rules lawyer
everybody while damaging the network (or it's reputation), either 1@1 or
"the collective sysops" can invoke this as their reason for kicking them
off.

For example, having "The Klan HeadQuarters BBS of Al-Quaidi Nazis" or "Pol
Pot and Stalin Had The Right Idea" as your BBS name isn't *illegal*, but
it's sketchy as shit, and gives Mark (or the collective sysops) a
mechanism to go "hell nah".

It's a starting point.

Steven / Surgical Steel

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