Guidelines for Using MacauNet

1. PURPOSE -

To share and to discuss the culture and the politics of Macau, the Macanese community, and China's affairs.

2. MEMBERSHIP -

Due to limited quota of our caltech account, we currently only accept people who are originally from Macau (e.g. people who were born there or lived there for an extended perior of time.) There are few exceptions where we had invited scholors who are not originally from Macau but had spent time studying Macau's history and culture and are very interested in Macau's affairs. If you have any questions concerning our membership policy, please email us at "macau@cco.caltech.edu". (without quote marks)
Dismissal of membership will be decided by the majority(2/3) of the votes from members of MacauNet.

3. HOW TO COMMUNICATE -

When your application is approved, we will send you an email address, through which you can send email to all of MacauNet members. Messages from other members will also be forwarded to you from that same address. Note: Reply to MacauNet instead of the sender (such as using 'R' but not 'r' on UNIX).

4. DIRECTORY -

In addition to the name, the e-mail address, and the name of the high school attended, each member is encouraged to submit the following information to the MacauNet database:

(An Example)

NAME: John Doe
WWW URL: http://www.myweb.com/~john
OCCUPATION: Computer Programmer
AFFILIATION: SmallTown Bridge Association, Member
RESIDENCE : SmallTown, Califonia
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY: UCLA
MAJOR: Computer Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Computer Networking
SECONDARY SCHOOL: Macau Middle School
HOBBIES: Video Games, Sleeping, Eating

5. GUIDELINES ON MESSAGES -

a) Any topic and any style. It can be news, commentary, analysis, poem or just simply express your feelings.
b) No length limit in a message. But be brief, PLEASE. Long message is boring and discouraged.
c) Your message sent to the macaunet address will be automatically forwarded to everybody. If you just want to send mail to an individual member, send it to his/her email address instead.
d) Try to avoid personal attack among members on macaunet, PLEASE. If you think your message may contain some offending language, please put a sign, such as "WARNING: it is LONG", "WARNING: some people may find the following message offending" or something like that.

6. HELPFUL TIPS -

a) Check your e-mail frequently.
b) If you want to include the original message, try to delete all the unrelated things. If you don't know how to do that, don't include the original message. You can just say 'with reference to so and so'. Please keep your message short and brief.
c) Learn how to compress files on your system if you want to save the message but have quota problem. Consult your system administrator or us if you don't know how to do that.

7. CONTACT PERSONS :

Please send your questions to macau@cco.caltech.edu

8. Please note that the content of this document is subject to change. Each member is encouraged to ask questions or give suggestions concerning this document.