I have pointed the "Reply-to" address back to me, as this discussion isn't connected directly to Listserv. I am in charge of documentation for EARN, and I don't know what "EARN documents" people have been talking about here. There is an EARN document on "Code of Conduct" from June 1990, when the global network was much different from today. The document makes it clear that it is talking about acceptable use within EARN. There is no attempt to control, preach or suggest to other networks what they should or should not allow. The document is available from [log in to unmask] by sending mail with the line: get conduct code There are also statements of acceptable use for other NJE networks, eg, CREN (BITNET), CAREN, CUNET, which are available from [log in to unmask] (GET CREN NET_USE, GET CUNET NET_USE, etc.). They're in the NETINFO filelist. There are also documents on acceptable use in the NSFNet, as well as JVNCNet, Suranet, and several other regional TCP/IP networks in the US. You can find these at nis.nsf.net in the directory: acceptable.use.policies (via anonymous ftp). A draft RFC on guidelines for formulating acceptable use policies in the Internet is available from your nearest Internet document repository (eg, ds.internic.net) in the directory: internet-drafts as file: draft-ietf-isn-aup-01.txt If you think that only EARN has an acceptable use policy, or that EARN is trying to set policy for the world, then you are seriously misinformed. David Sitman EARN