Netiquette
Adapted from the Computer Ethics Institute: When you're in someone else's house...
- Do not give your sign-on and password to someone else.
- Do not "hack" (gain unauthorized entry) into someone else's computer, nor snoop around in other people's files.
- Do not send your credit card numbers over the net unless they are specially encrypted.
- Do not use a computer to steal.
- Do not use a computer to flame or hurt someone else.
- Do not use or copy software for which you have not paid.
- Do not use other people's computer resources without authorization.
- Do not claim other people's intellectual output as your own.
- Do not leave a lab computer without signing off the net.
- Do use a computer in ways that show consideration and respect.
THE NET
USER GUIDELINES AND NETIQUETTE
Adapted from: The Net User Guidelines and Netiquette by: Arlene H. Rinaldi, Computer User Services
Florida Atlantic University, September 3, 1992
The use of the network is a Privilege, not a right, which may temporarily be revoked at any time for abusive conduct.
- The "Internet" or "The Net" is not a single network; rather, it is a group of thousands of individual networks which have chosen to allow traffic to pass among them.
- Recognize your responsibility for access to vast services, sites, systems, and people.
- Actions which are routinely allowed on one network/system may be controlled, or even forbidden, on other networks.
- Abide by the policies and procedures of these other networks/systems. Remember, the fact that a user can perform a particular action does not imply that they should take that action.
Be careful not to:
- Place unlawful information on a system
- Use abusive or otherwise objectionable language in either public or private messages
- Send "Chain letters," or anything which would cause congestion of the networks or otherwise interfere with the work of others.
It's no joke! Not only can you lose your University sign-on, you could break Federal or State law and wind up in court. Be a good citizen.