THESE RULES APPLY TO ALL FORUMS - THE FOLLOWING IS NOT PERMITTED:

• Swearing, threats of retaliation, personal attacks including insults on character and name calling. 
• Chatting about sex or sexual activity in a lewd or explicit manner (i.e., promoting pornography).
• Using the forums as a personals column, or posting links for the sole purpose of advertising a website, topics are posted for discussion...not advertisement.
• Cutting and pasting large amounts of material... including entire articles and previous email address. Only quotes can be directly cut and pasted from emails or online news sources.
• Using an inappropriate handle or graphic, exalting or promoting Satanism, representing or promoting racism.
• Filling the room with repetitive messages (flooding), or the continuous use of upper-case letters. 
• Please establish one handle in the forums and do not impersonate others handles (e.g., email names or Alvastars).
• Finally, each forum has a specific theme. We ask that discussions be related to the forum you are visiting. Moderators will move posts to the appropriate forum, or delete them if they do not relate to the topic.

Persons who violate our rules may be banned without warning. If a person repetitively violates the rules they may be permanently banned from all forums. The decision to ban is at the sole discretion of the moderators.