Welcome to The Borodino Bullett Online Newsletter

Joe Vecchio

Welcome to Joe's Cafe. Joe's Cafe is a message board...a virtual place where neighbors can meet, chat and gossip, make suggestions...whatever you like. We also have a second message board -- Joe's Cafe II

This message board is not a democracy, at best it is a benevolent dictatorship. The Borodino Bullett site hosts have set the following rules for Joe's Cafe message board and have given the message board staff the power to limit or deny access to those who insist on violating them. We hope that such extreme measures are never needed, of course.

The Bullett does not endorse or agree with all things posted but we do believe in free speech. We don't think its appropriate to spew hate-filled venom at your neighbors; inflammatory or threatening postings will not be tolerated. The moderators will enforce these rules on all message boards; it is your responsibility to read them before posting.

August 1, 2004 the Bullett will implement a register-only policy to post to the message board.

Joe's Cafe Message Board Rules and Policies

On rules issues (and only on rules issues) the word of the Borodino Bullett site hosts is final.

Do not behave in a manner that the site hosts, the moderators, the staff, or reasonable members will consider annoying or excessively rude.

Personal attacks (i.e. name calling, hostile remarks, accusations, etc.), blanket condemnations of religions or peoples, proselytizing, and spamming/trolling will not be tolerated. Debate is welcome but please debate ideas and opinions, not personalities. Outright hate speech is never welcome.

Do not post or attach copyrighted material without including the specific and express permission granted by the original author (or the copyright holder if that is no longer the original author) to post their material in Joe's Cafe [see copyright note below].

Joe's Cafe message board is "PG-13" rated. No gratuitous offensive language, please.

Please leave the moderating to the site hosts, forum moderators and their appointed staff.

By posting a message to this message board, you are irrevocably authorizing the royalty-free use of that message or edited material from that message in the Borodino Bullett newsletters, mailing lists, announcement lists, web sites and other online venues.

Copyright rule note: Please remember that material taken from web pages, newspapers, magazines, etc. is copyrighted (and remains copyrighted even if you get it from a third party, e.g. in an email message from a friend or mailing list) and may not be posted without permission from the actual owner of the copyright (permission must be included with the post). Permission to email a copy to a friend as some news sites give is the not same thing as permission to post on a public message board.
Forum Guidelines
Advertising Guideline: Unsolicited advertising (commercial or non-commercial) is generally considered "spam" and the content deleted. If you really think your non-commercial ad would be of interest to our members, please query Bullett editors in e-mail and request permission to post it. They will look at the ad and make a decision. The only exception to this rule is that regular posters on our message board are usually allowed to make short, one time informative announcements without obtaining advance permission.
Message Format Guidelines: A number of definite "don't dos" are listed in our non-exhaustive list of behavior we generally find rude or annoying below, here are some positive things you can do to make your messages more readable -- and therefore more likely to be read and replied to by other members.

Write in short paragraphs with a blank line between each paragraph. Large blocks of solid text are much harder to read on a monitor than in a book or magazine so white space (blank lines between paragraphs) is much more important to readability than it is in text printed on paper.

Please don't write in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. It's very hard to read and is considered the online equivalent of shouting at people.

Clearly mark any material you are quoting from another message with some type of text marker -- the most common method in our message board seems to be starting and ended the quoted text with two or three plus signs (like this: +++This would be some text quoted from another message+++).

If you are starting a new thread, try to give it a subject that accurately describes the discussion is about.

Personal Information Guideline: Members should think twice before posting personal information (address, phone number, etc.) in a message as the messages you post are available to anyone on the Internet.
Tolerance Guideline: The Borodino Bullett expects its members to be tolerant of the religious beliefs of others. This means we expect you to respect the right of others to the religious beliefs and practices of their choice. This does not mean that you have to agree with those beliefs, that you cannot argue politely that factual beliefs are incorrect, or that you cannot politely state that you believe certain other beliefs are simply wrong. It is definitely not intolerant to ask someone for the sources of their information.

Things Usually Considered Annoying in Joe's Cafe

Posting the same message to multiple topics.
Arguing with a moderator warning or ruling.
Threatening the editors of Joe's Cafe message board, web site, or members.
Attacking a post based on typos, poor spelling, or poor grammar, instead of debating its content. Our message board is more akin to a spoken conversation with people from many countries than it is to a term paper.
Messages in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, in eLiTe LeTtErS, or in very large or hard to read fonts or color.
Signatures which contain large graphic files (more than 25K or so total), which contain sound, music, video, scripts, java applets, or other troublesome features, or which take up a large amount of screen space. Note that all graphics in your message or signature must have both height= and width= tags in their img src HTML. ^ Top