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From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
Subject: EFF House Rules (version 2.0)
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1992 12:44:24 GMT
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 1. No unauthorized attempts to gain root access or access to any account
    not belonging to you on this or any other EFF system.

 2. No use of this or any other EFF system as a staging ground to crack
    other systems.

 3. No use of this or any other EFF system through unauthorized
    dial-up access.

 4. No use of this or any other EFF system for illegal or criminal
    purposes.

 5. All users are responsible for their own telecom access charges, if any.

 6. Any user who finds a possible security hole on any EFF system is
    obliged to report it to the system administrators.  If you're not
    sure, report it, don't try to use it.

 7. Users are responsible for all use of their accounts, including
    choosing safe passwords and ensuring file protections are set
    correctly.

 8. Sharing passwords is not permitted.

 9. Please keep in mind that many people use the EFF systems for day to
    day work.  Obstructing this work by consuming gratuitiously large
    amounts of system resources (disk space, CPU time) or by
    deliberately crashing the machine(s) will not be tolerated.  In
    general we will ask you to clean up your disk space and/or stop your
    own processes except in emergencies; please cooperate by running
    large jobs at night and by using the "nice" command to lower the
    priority of CPU-intensive processes.

10. All users should be on notice that the system administrators do
    periodic security checks of EFF systems, including password checks.
    Any user with a "bad password" will be notified via email.  If the
    user does not change passwords within a timely manner, the account
    will be locked until the person in question contacts, *via
    telephone*, one of the system administrators to reinstate the
    account in question.

11. Electronic mail on this system is as private as we can make it.
    Attempts to read another person's electronic mail or other protected
    files will be treated with the utmost seriousness.  The system
    administrators will not read mail or non-world-readable files unless
    absolutely necessary in the course of their duties, and will treat
    the contents of those files as private information at all times.
    Bounced mail is directed to the system administrators in the form of
    *headers only* for purposes of assuring reliable e-mail service.
-- 
Helen Trillian Rose             	email eff@eff.org for EFF info
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