What are the restrictions on commercial activities in the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups?
BIOSCI is funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) which supports the Internet in the U.S. with U.S. taxpayer dollars. NSF is responsible for setting Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for the the NSFNet backbone section of the Internet of which BIOSCI makes extensive use. Because of these reasons, BIOSCI users should adhere to the following guidelines. Commercial activities on BIOSCI are in general prohibited except as noted below. People at for-profit organizations are free to read all postings made to the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups, but must ensure that their postings to the newsgroups do not violate our guidelines. Commercial organizations may post job openings on EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs subject to the format restrictions for that group. Commercial job posting format restrictions for the EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs newsgroup are described above under the question “Where should I post my messages?” Users who violate these format restrictions consciously risk losing their network acc
