Conference abbott::cruise_travel

    Mr. Moderator would like to ask all participants in this conference who
    enter notes and/or replies to please use both upper and lowercase
    characters.  It is much easier to read and unlike all uppercase it does
    not give one the impression THEY ARE BEING SHOUTED AT.

    I thank you.

    

    Information regarding various ports-of-call can be found in the 
    HOLIDAY_TRAVEL conference.  The conference is directed towards land 
    vacations but some really interesting info is there about many of the 
    ports we sea goin' type call on.
    
    To add HOLIDAY_TRAVEL to your notebook simply press the SELECT key.
    

    Before entering a NEW note asking information about a ship or
    port-of-call or agency...etc. please check if there is ALREADY
    information about the same subject.
    
    Notes such as "I am going on THE NORWAY can someone tell me something
    about it?" are not appropriate unless the ship has never been mentioned
    or the exact information you are looking for does not yet exist
    in a note.
    
    I'd like to keep the redundancy to an absolute minimum.
    
    Search for information by title DIR/TITLE= or search by text string
    SEARCH "string".
    
    Thanks for your cooperation.
    
    Mr. Moderator
    Joe
    

    The problem this memo addresses has been practically nonexistent in
    this notes conference.  Your continued cooperation is very much
    appreciated since I hate to police notes for content, I just like to 
    read 'em.

    Mr. Moderator
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                   I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date:      20-Feb-1990 02:11pm EST
                                        From:      RON GLOVER 
                                                   GLOVER.RON 
                                        Dept:      Corp. ER Relations
                                        Tel No:    251-1318

    
    Over the last several months Digital has been contacted by a number of 
    individuals and business entities that were angry about negative 
    comments made about them in our Notesfiles and Conferences.  As the 
    Personnel Policy Manager for Digital I have been the recipient of many 
    of those notes.  I thought I should take the time to post this note to 
    inform employees that it is not appropriate for them to make negative 
    comments or references about any person or business entity in any of 
    Digital's employee interest notesfile or conferences.
    
    There are several reasons why we are establishing this rule.
    The first has to do with fundamental fairness.  It is simply not fair 
    for an employee to make a negative comment about a business when we 
    don't provide those businesses an opportunity to respond and defend 
    themselves.  This is particularly true given the fact that we have no 
    way of determining whether the comment is honest, fair, or accurate.  
    Clearly Digital has no intention, or desire, to open up its notesfiles 
    to third-party businesses so that they can engage in a debate about 
    whether they provide quality services.  The only logical solution then 
    is to ask our employees to refrain from using the Notesfiles to air 
    grievances they have with individuals, vendors, or organizations.  
    
    In addition to our concerns about fairness, we are concerned about the 
    potential damage that these kinds of comments may cause to third-party 
    businesses.  In that regard, employees should understand that they may 
    be personally liable if the statements they make cause harm to any 
    person or business.  Moreover, there is some possibility Digital may be 
    held liable for such comments as well.  Stated more simply, comments 
    made in a Notesfile or conference are in no way privileged or immune 
    from claims of liable, slander or defamation.
    
    We are asking all of the users of Notesfiles to exercise discretion and 
    judgment in the comments that they make in the system.   We are also 
    asking the moderators to go back and review the notesfiles they 
    moderate and to remove any notes that include derogatory references to 
    third-party businesses.
    
    Please feel free to contact your moderator if you have any questions 
    on this subject.  
    
    Ron Glover
    Corporate Personnel Policy Manager
    

    It has been suggested that a special note be created for TRIP REPORT
    entries only.  I hesitate to do this since more times than not
    trip reports get several replies asking questions, commenting...etc.  
    Because of this I feel that TRIP REPORTS should be entered as a base note 
    in themselves.

    As a suggestion.  If you are entering a TRIP REPORT entitle your note 
    such as...

    		TRIP REPORT 1990 - ROYAL VIKING SUN

    				or
    
    		TRIP REPORT 1990 - SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS
    
    If someone is looking for information on a particular ship, company, or
    destination they'll easily find the note(s) they want by using DIR/TITLE
    or SEARCH commands.
    
    I invite your comments via mail to PULSAR::FAMULARO
    

    Moderator:
    
    	Joe Famularo
    	XANADU::FAMULARO
    	DTN: 381-0087