As a result of the need to protect our online reputation, the Recon Office, in collaboration with the Communications Office, and the High Inquisitor's Office, has applied some new rules to ALL Hammer online IRC activity:

1. ALL flooding is OUTLAWED. NO EH Member will flood ANYONE, Rebel, Imperial, or Neutral on ANY IRC channel/server. All flooders will be warned, EXPELLED from the EH, and we will notify an IRCop as to your activity and you will most likely be k:lined (banned from) the Undernet. This may seem harsh, but it is necessary to protect our online reputation.

2. ALL Clonebots are now BANNED from all EH channels. Again, all users of clonebots will be warned once and EXPELLED. Consequences are the same as those listed above.

3. ALL Bots (of any kind) used by members are forbidden on all EH IRC Channels WITHOUT prior clearance from the Recon Officer or the Communications Officer. (mail us the script(s) at ReconOfficer@POBoxes.com or madrihan@students.wisc.edu)

In order to help you stay out of trouble on IRC, the Recon Attache has drawn up a list of "Ten Commandments" for you to follow:

1. Thou shalt not flood or use clonebots

2. Thou shalt not take over other channels

3. Thou shalt not take advantage of channel service errors/netsplits

4. Thou shalt not abuse thy power, X, or SSSD_Sov (which includes deopping/kicking/banning X or SSSD_Sov)

5. Thou shalt act in a decent manner, representative of all the Empire

6. Thou shalt not insult others on a level external to Star Wars (i.e. age, gender, race, sexual orientation)

7. Thou shalt *NOT* intiate confrontation with others

8. Thou shalt ALWAYS respect direct orders given by the ranking officer in the channel.

9. Thou shalt not impersonate others

10. Thou shalt not abuse SSSD_Sov's fileserver