General Policy:
The Northwest Palms and Subtropicals board is a moderated discussion forum for discussing gardening with palms and subtropicals. Moderated means that inappropriate posts and posts too far off-topic will be removed.
The principle purpose of a moderated palms and subtropicals forum is clearly the exchange of useful gardening information. Posts may be requests for information, announcements of relevance, etc. Lengthy quoting (more than 30 lines) of source material must be accompanied by source acknowledgement and commentary or by other text which ties it to on-going discussions.
Articles which contain personal attacks of any sort, racist comments, ad hominem arguments, etc. will not be approved for posting, and will be deleted.
Disagreements are welcome (so long as they contain no flames), but if a thread looks as though it's never going to be resolved, the moderators reserve the right to terminate it/suspend it until new evidence is produced.
Blank messages, test messages, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, porn, binaries, uuencoded messages, and so forth, will not be approved for posting. Gardening related advertisements for courses, jobs, new book notices, etc. will be accepted, but not advertisements for mail order gimmicks, or too general to be of value to palms and subtropicals.
Racist, political, religious, and Ethnocentric remarks will not be tolerated in postings to this moderated forum. Regardless of label the guideline shall simply be whether religion, politics, ethnocentrism and racism are involved. For example, this forum is not the appropriate medium for discussing the politics of the greenhouse effect.
All posters should have an easily identified name and valid email address in at least one posting on the forum. Posters can subsequently omit their E-mail address, provided it was posted at least once on the forum. If this is missing, moderators may delete the offending post at their discretion.