Cerebus Yahoo!Group FAQ

• Individual Messages: Each message / post is sent to your listed email address
• Daily Digest: 25 messages / posts are combined in one email to your listed email address.
• Special Notices: Special announcements sent by the group moderators only.
• No Email: No messages / posts are sent to your email.

• SPAM is posting “unsolicited bulk electronic messages” to the group and will be deleted and result in banning.
• Please feel free to post anything that you think will be of interest to other group members, all topics are open for discussion.
• Off topic: Any post that doesn’t deal with Cerebus, Dave, Gerhard or the group’s policies is considered off topic. Any post that is off topic must have the label OT in the subject line to differentiate it so people who only want to read on topic posts can skip the OT posts.
• Policy posts: Any post that deals with the policy of the Cerebus archives should be labeled “POLICY” in the subject line for easy reference.
• Meta posts: Any post that deals with the Yahoo!Group and its rules should be labeled "META" in the subject line for easy reference.
• For Sale / Ebay posts: Since there is such a wide variety of comic fans and collectors in this group, posts about eBay auction or items for sale privately are permitted (preferably involving Cerebus, Dave Sim or Gerhard). However, it is important that any such posts be labeled as "FOR SALE" or "EBAY," followed by a brief description of the item for sale - for example; EBAY: CEREBUS STATUE, or FOR SALE: MOUSE GUARD SET - to avoid confusion (and please make an effort to provide any useful information such as auction start/end times, and contact information for private sales). More importantly, if you make NO OTHER CONTRIBUTION to the group beyond posting items for sale, such posts will be considered soliciting and will not be tolerated per the "SPAM" rule. The moderators make every effort to weed out potential spammers before being allowed to join, so any new member joining and immediately posting FOR SALE items and NOTHING ELSE will be subject to suspension/banning. Please use some common sense. While we would prefer to keep things "loose" to encourage user interaction and exposure to new works that may be of interest, a proliferation of FOR SALE posts causing a disruption of the group will result in more stringent guidelines prohibiting ANY such post.
• Extreme/Disruptive Behavior: At the moderators' discretion, any member may be suspended or banned due to extreme behavior which is disruptive to such a level as to make the forum unusable. Examples of such behavior would be: flooding the group with blank emails, completely UNPROVOKED and EXCESSIVE attacks (provoked attacks and confrontations will not be stopped unless the previously mentioned levels of disruption are reached - such a situation has yet to occur), and death threats (it is impossible to create a complete list as each situation has the potential to be unique). Said behavior will not be determined to be EXTREME by moderator discretion alone, but with the added input of group members so that at least a majority of actively posting members think suspension/banning is the best course of action until an alternate solution can be discussed and/or reached. If a suspension is put into effect, length of term will be determined by the moderators.
• The Posting Limit Rule:
  • SECTION A. Group members are limited to 25 posts per day/350 posts per month. If upon significant news affecting the Group that results in a higher number of On Topic messages, the Moderators may at their discretion temporally suspend this rule for On Topic posts for as long as they see fit. If they decide for a temporary suspension of the rule, they should notify the Group via a list announcement.
  • SECTION B. First violation of this rule will result in a warning. Second violation of this rule will result in a warning. Three violations within a 6 month period will result in a 1 month ban from the Group. Upon return to the Group, three violations within a 6 month period will result in a 6 month ban from the Group. Upon subsequent return to the Group, three violations within a 6 month period will result in a permanent ban from the Group.
  • SECTION C. To the extent that this rule results in a single permanent ban, this rule will then end, and the necessity of it's existence will be revisited at a later date.