CfSC policy: Newsgroup / mailing list Charter

Purpose

This newsgroup / mailing-list is operated by Citizens for Safe Cycling (CfSC), the non-profit association that promotes responsible cycling as a viable mode of transportation in the National Capital region. This mailing list is for member and public discussions about events, projects, issues and policies that affect or may affect cycling and cyclists in Canada's National Capital region:

cycling events and projects organized by Citizens for Safe Cycling and others related to cycling transportation, education, promotion, or safety, including safety awareness campaigns, cycling skills course announcements, advocacy action alerts and meeting notices
CfSC policy discussions
opportunities to improve cycling
bicycle operation in the city
bicycles and equipment
changes to roads/paths and road/path maintenance
policy proposals, such as bylaws and official plans
transportation and cycling budget proposals
threats to cycling and cyclists

Posting
Personal attacks on other mailing-list participants are not allowed. If you want to say something of a personal nature or directed only at one individual, use private e-mail, or post it to alt.flame, or better yet use the hot air to pump up your bicycle tires. :-)

Anyone violating this rule will have to do all the folding and stapling of the next CfSC newsletter. Repeat offenders will be required to bicycle a 20-km course along the Queensway. Just kidding about the stapling and the Queensway, but seriously, lease don't tease (unless the person being teased considers it just friendly teasing), bait, mock, satirize, swear at, unconstructively criticize, or insult other newsgroup participants; such activity is specifically forbidden within the newsgroup by this charter.

How to access this mailing-list/newsgroup
This mailing-list / newsgroup is available in several formats:

as an individual message mailing-list: "subscribe cfsc"
as a digest (one message per day) mailing-list: "subscribe cfsc-digest"
as the newsgroup "flora.cfsc" on the Flora Community web (www.flora.org), on the National Capital FreeNet ("go cfsc") and other internet providers in the national capital region in hypertext format on our web site at http://www.safecycling.ca

Auto-moderation

This mailing-list is auto-moderated to eliminate spam. Messages from members of any of the mailing-lists cfsc, cfsc-digest or cfsc-nomail are posted automatically. Others are sent to a moderator to weed out mass email (spam). For example, a message advertising bulk email software would be rejected.

The cfsc-nomailing list doesn't send any email. It just gives members the freedom to post automatically and is intended for use by those who access this as newsgroup, flora.cfsc. To subscribe to cfsc-nomail, send "subscribe cfsc-nomail" in the BODY of your message to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or the list operators may automatically subscribe you after your first posting.
To Unsubscribe from this list at any time

Send a message to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . In the BODY (NOT Subject) of the message include the text:
unsubscribe cfsc

(or cfsc-digest, or cfsc-nomail, depending on which one you subscribed to)
Other regional cycling mailing-lists/newsgroups:

Cyclists interested more in recreational cycling (touring, racing, mountain biking) should consider one of the other mailing list / newsgroups available in the Ottawa area:

the Ottawa Bicycle Club (OBC) mailing list / newsgroup:
Send a message with "subscribe obc" in the message BODY to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . On the National Capital FreeNet you can access the mailing list as a newsgroup: culist.obc, or "go obc"
the Kanata Nepean Bicycle Club (KNBC) newsgroup:
On The National Capital FreeNet you can access this discussion as a newsgroup: ncf.rec.knbc, or "go knbc".
the Ottawa-Carleton Tandem Lovers mail list:
Send a message with "subscribe octal" in the message BODY to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . This mailing list is not available as a newsgroup.

CfSC's web site
More information about Citizens for Safe Cycling's Advocacy, member, and Cycling Safety and Promotion programs may be obtained on our web site: http://www.safecycling.ca. On the National Capital FreeNet: "go cfsc"

Questions?

Please direct any questions about the operation of this list to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Happy cycling!

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Approved by the CfSC Board of Directors 1997 November

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