AVIEN /AVI-EWS Network Terms and Conditions

General Terms

• The Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network and the Anti-Virus Information and Early Warning System (hereinafter referred to as "Network") shall be hereinafter taken to mean any part of the operations of avien.org and avien.net and its systems, including but not restricted to the entire website, publications, email lists, email aliases, and any related data personal or otherwise that may be stored in any form, and all archival and historical copies of such information
• Unless specific exclusion or inclusion be made, these Rules shall apply to all lists, e-mail addresses and aliases administered by the Network, including but not limited to all permanent mailing lists or temporary lists that now or might in the future exist, or have in the past existed.
• Unless specific exclusion or inclusion be made, the rules regarding data privacy shall apply to all areas of the Network. Specifically, the information including access passwords and usernames within the "members/subscribers" area of the avien.org and avien.net website shall not for any reason be disseminated to any non member/subscriber entity either while membership/subscription is current, nor in the event it should lapse or be revoked in the future.
• Disciplinary matters will be handled by an annually elected committee of AVIEN members and will be decided ultimately by majority vote within that committee, hereinafter known as the Disciplinary Committee
• All matters will be confidentially investigated and dealt with swiftly.
• Any subscriber may report a suspected breach of the rules to dc_AT_avien_DOT_org, which will then auto-forward the message to all members of the Disciplinary Committee 
• The decision of the Committee in all such matters shall be final.
• A breach of any of the following rules shall be considered grounds for investigation by the Disciplinary Committee and carry as a consequence possible suspension or expulsion from the list.
• These general rules shall be extended but in no way overridden in the specific rules for the AVI-EWS and AVIEN full member groups.

Appointment of the Disciplinary Committee

1. The DC shall consist of 5 AVIEN members, with the Moderator as non-voting member.
2. Any AVIEN member may nominate any AVIEN member(s) including themselves, up to a maximum number of 5 nominations, for the DC. Elections shall be held as necessary, commencing in June, 2001 and will be supervised by the Moderator.
3. Disciplinary Committee members shall be elected by the AVIEN members in a secret ballot sent to the Moderator.
4. If there are more candidates than Disciplinary Committee positions available, the top vote receivers shall become (or remain) Disciplinary Committee representatives. In the event of a tie, the Moderator shall determine the winner(s) based on a process of the Moderator's preference.
5. Disciplinary Committee Members shall serve a term 2 years, except in the first year of the Disciplinary Committee's existence. In that first year, 3 members shall be elected for 1 year, and 2 for two years.
6. No Disciplinary Committee member may serve more than two consecutive terms; there is no limit to the number of non-consecutive terms an AVIEN member may serve on the Disciplinary Committee.
7. Disciplinary Committee members shall elect their own Chair. The Chair shall speak for the Disciplinary Committee, but have no special powers.
8. In Disciplinary Committee votes, the majority of the Yeas or Nays shall carry the day; if due to abstentions or any other reason there is a tie, the Moderator shall cast the deciding vote.
9. In all rulings, the Moderator will exercise the role of Benevolent Dictator

There are also specific rules for AVI-EWS subscribers and for AVIEN full members