These guidelines describe the proper conduct and prohibited uses of Section of International Law (Section) Listserves. The Section may change these guidelines at any time, and such changes will be effective as of the date stated below. By using any of the Section's Listserves, you agree to abide by these guidelines as modified from time to time:

1. Be extremely judicious in your use of the "reply to all" function on messages sent through Section Listserves. Circumstances when the "reply to all" button should not be used include, but are not limited to, personal questions, ABA or Section policy questions or any other circumstance where receipt of a message would be unwelcome.

2. No distribution of any program, publication or event-related items. All such announcements must be submitted to Section staff for distribution.

3. Only make relevant postings. Do not make postings that are off-topic according to the Listserve's focus.

4. Personal invective will not be tolerated.

5. Do not post an entire e-mail only to add a short response.

6. Do not use the Listserves as a method of advocating a client's position.

7. Do not post the same or similar message to multiple Section Listserves.

8. Do not forward personal email to the entire Listserve without the express permission of the email's author.

9. The Listserve may only be used for lawful purposes. The following nonexhaustive list details the kinds of prohibited conduct:

• Distribute through the Listserve any message, data, information, text or other material ("Content") that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise injurious to third parties;
• Distribute any Content that would constitute or encourage a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national, or international law or regulation;
• Upload any Content that may infringe any intellectual property or proprietary right of any party;
• Impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity or interfere with other users of the Listserve;
• Distribute through the Listserve any Content such as charity requests, petitions for signatures, other solicitations of Listserve users, promotional materials, chain letters or letters relating to pyramid schemes, advertising or solicitations for funds, political campaigning, mass mailings, any form of unsolicited commercial or promotional email ("spam") or an offering of lawful or fraudulent goods, services, schemes or promotions; and/or
• Knowingly disseminate harmful content including without limitation, viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, zombies, cancelbots, or any other computer programming routines that may damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, program, data or personal information.
  

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Section reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to investigate any violation of these guidelines. Section leaders or staff may terminate a user's participation in one or more Section Listserves at any time for any reason, including, but not limited to, violations of these guidelines.

For additional information, you may contact Liam O'Malley, the Section’s Communications and Technology Coordinator at omalleyl@staff.abanet.org.

Effective Date: January 29, 2003