A note on the scope of the forum agreement

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[grahame]

Just a short note to confirm that the general posting etiquette which is described in your forum agreement, the sticky topics on the "Intro" board, and elsewhere on the site also apply (with sensible re-interprettations where appropriate) to personal messages sent via the forum, and indeed with further re-interprettation away from the forum.  For example ... you should not spam / flood / harrass / personally attack other member(s) via personal message / email / in another way  to the extent that it results in the matter being raised with our moderators / admins.

I know that for the overwhelming majority of members this is a statement of the obvious, but I'm aware of a couple of recent incidents where it appears not to have been so - perhaps in the heat of the moment

Full introduction thread / a copy of the forum agreement may be found via

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=1761.0

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yawn

[grahame]

yawn

Yes, I agree that the forum agreement is boring, and it's a pity that it's necessary to state these things.  However, it's proven necessary from time to time.  I'm just in the process of cleaning up a series of 29 posts made in the last hour ... by yourself ... which (in my view break) many of the guidelines we lay down.  I'll leave as many as I can for others readers to see what you've been saying, but some just have to be deleted.

We do not allow the use of sexual / swear words, other band language.  We ask that you do not post links to sexually explicit sites that are nothing what ever to do with railways / First Great Western, and we most cerainly ask that you do not post personal attacks on other members of the board. There are plenty of othe placed on the Internet where such materials and activities are allowed, but for us to allow them here would be to turn this place away from being a friendly place for the majority of our users.

I'll be checking with my fellow moderators to get their views too, but in the meantime I have suspended your account.