Sorry, the email address given gets cut off halfway through. It's
supposed to be thebaltoleagueadmin at gmail.com (replace the "at"
with the @ sign, of course, when using it, and eliminate the spaces).
It's also now in the founders' message.

---WhiteWolf

--- In thebaltoleague@yahoogroups.com, whitewolf_707 <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> In light of recent drama in The Balto League's chats, we have
devised
> the following set of rules to encourage a friendlier atmosphere. We
> will expect ALL members to abide by the following rules of common
> courtesy -- it doesn't matter whether you're a channel operator, a
> member who has been with the club for five years, or a member who
has
> been with the club for two weeks. Failure to do so will result in
> disciplinary action, subject to the discretion of the channel
> operators responding to the inquiry.
>
> 1) A few have taken notice of some potentially undesirable
roleplaying
> behavior occuring within the chat. We feel, however, that banning
> certain behaviors outright is unfair to the groups of people that
wish
> to engage in them. Thus, if nobody else minds at the time, the
> behavior is okay - but, be CONSIDERATE of other people's feelings!
In
> the same way, if an action occurring in the chat makes you feel
> uncomfortable for any reason, your first step is to ask the person
(s)
> involved to please take it to a private message instead! If, and
only
> if, these efforts fail and you still feel uncomfortable with it,
> please contact us (see point #3) and we will try to sort out a
> reasonable agreement with you.
>
> 2) Threats to get each other banned will not be tolerated. Likewise,
> no one is immune from being banned. We do not tolerate character
> assassinations, flame wars, telling people to shut up, or use of all
> capital letters more than once in 5 minutes (Example: TALKING LIKE
> THIS ALL THE TIME). Offenders will be disciplined as we see fit.
>
> 3) Anyone who has a genuine concern that they wish to communicate
to a
> channel operator should either speak to an op on duty
(whitewolf_707,
> Policho, Silver_Huskey or Acanis) or, if none are available, email
the
> following address: thebaltoleagueadmin@..., where one of us will
> address your concerns. If your concerns are about something specific
> going on in chat, we need evidence -- provide a chat log! It's as
> simple as using the copy/paste function in mIRC or your browser (if
> you use the Java applet websites in the founder's message). You
don't
> have to have auto-logging enabled in order to do this.
>
> 4) Enjoy yourselves! The whole point of our weekly chats is to relax
> and have fun. This set of rules is designed to protect your
enjoyment
> of the chats and make sure that everybody has a good time. Remember,
> we want to help you!
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> In response to certain rumors, we want to say that, yes, vesta_wolf
> (AKA Perygrynn, as she is known in the chat) has been banned from
TBL
> chat. It is not a permanent ban, though, and once she agrees to
> cooperate more closely with our chat guidelines we will gladly
welcome
> her back in.
>
> Dunder (AKA Callee) has also been banned. This is simply because he
> asked us to. He had been saying for a long time now that he wanted
to
> stop coming to the chats. We were doing nothing more than helping
him
> out with the decision he'd already wanted to make. We have told him
to
> email us whenever he wants to re-join and we will remove the ban.
>
> Having said that, this was a special situation and we do NOT intend
to
> ban people just because they want us to, any longer. So don't ask
us -
> we're going to say no. Thank you.
>
> ---The Balto League channel operators
>