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System administrators can advise about what is permitted at any particular site.
2. Only Augusta, Georgia Departments are allowed to have pages hosted on Augusta,
Georgia's computer systems. Furthermore, only links to other government agencies will be
allowed on Augusta, Georgia's web page(s).
3. When you publish something on the World Wide Web, you are putting it before a potential
audience of millions. You have the same responsibilities as if you were publishing a
newspaper. If the content is libelous or deceptive, people can sue you, and you can be held
personally liable.
4. Since there are laws against distributing obscene material (not just creating it), a link to an
obscene web site can be a violation of the law. This is true regardless of the status of the
Communications Decency Act or other new laws that specifically mention computers.
5. You are not allowed to view any material that is sexually explicit, obscene, or otherwise
offensive. Additionally, the Augusta, Georgia's sexual harassment policy prohibits you
from displaying sexually explicit material that interferes with anyone's work or personal
performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.
6. If you want to reproduce copyrighted pictures, cartoons, or comic strips on your web page,
you must have the copyright owner's permission. It is not sufficient to reproduce the
owner's copyright notice; you must actually obtain permission for yourself, just as if you
were publishing the same material in a newspaper. Brief textual quotations do not always
require permission as long as the source is acknowledged and you are not reproducing a
complete work (poem, essay, etc.).
7. You must not accept payments, discounts, or anything of value in return for placing
anything on your web page. The Augusta, Georgia's disk space and communication
capacity are not yours to sell. This applies to all computers directly connected to the
Augusta, Georgia's network cables, even if they are privately owned.
P. Users shall comply with the regulations and policies of newsgroups, mailing lists, and other
public forums through which they disseminate messages.
1. When participating in Usenet newsgroups [?] forums, you must respect their policies and
practices, for two reasons:
a. To join these networks, Augusta, Georgia has to agree to abide by their policies. Misuse
would endanger Augusta, Georgia’s eligibility to participate.
b. Most of the cost of transmitting any message in a discussion is borne by the sites that
receive it, not the site that send it out. Thus, you are the guest of the whole network
community, and it is important to abide by policies and practices of the entire network.
The most ironclad rule is to respect the announced sub- announced subject each forum
and not to post anything off-topic. Other things that are generally unwelcome include:

• Advertisements (except that many forums permit announcements that are
directly relevant to their subject areas)
• Multiple postings of the same material (a general-interest message should go in
one general-interest forum not several specialized ones)
• Questionnaires and other mass solicitations
• Questions that are easily answered by looking in dictionaries, encyclopedias, or
readily available software manuals
• Uninformative criticisms of other people’s postings by others should be
ignored, not discussed.
• Postings that are misspelled, obscurely worded, or TYPED IN ALL CAPITALS
LIKE THIS
• Postings that say “Test message, please ignore” (try out your software when
you actually have something to say, or use a test newsgroup)

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