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Formspace Accepted Practices Policy

Open to all forms professionals, Formspace serves as an unmoderated forum for the free exchange of critical information, opinion and support on any forms-related topic. All subscribers to Formspace are asked to read the Terms of Use document, especially the section on "Prohibited Communications," before participating. In addition, users on the Formspace forum are requested to comply with these policies:

If you are subscribed to Formspace and wish to turn on your e-mail client's auto-responder feature while you are away from the office for a period of time, you are asked to unsubscribe from Formspace first. Then resubscribe after you return to your office and your auto-responder is turned off. This ensures that the users group will not be flooded with unwanted "Out of the Office" e-mails while you are away.

When replying to a digest format message, please delete the digest from your reply. Failure to do so creates an illegible digest-within-a-digest for that day. Also be sure the reply’s subject line matches that of the discussion thread.

Each posting to the list should be in plain ASCII text (no HTML formatting), and must contain at least one of the following: a forms-related question, or a response to a forms-related question, or an announcement of a non-commercial resource for the forms and information systems community.

Postings should have a short, descriptive subject header and a detailed message body.

Please keep discussion civil and constructive, and take heated discussions and non-constructive comments off the list.

Postings of complete applications are never allowed, but code fragments can be posted for the purposes of discussing programming issues.

Attachments are not allowed on the forum, but users are welcome to send them to each other off-list.

Commercial announcements are not allowed on the forum except in connection with Formspace Sponsorship. Anyone posting a commercial announcement will be asked to cease their abuse of the forum.

BFMA recommends that first time users read some of the postings in order to better understand the procedures.

The use of profanity, flaming, abuse, or general rudeness is strictly prohibited. Violators of list policy will be given a warning off-list and will be advised to comply in future postings. A second violation will lead to suspension without notice for one week. The third violation will result in permanent suspension from Formspace.

Please note that any information you post to Formspace is available to all persons accessing the list, and may be reprinted in BFMA’s inFOCUS newsletter with your name, company and job title. 

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