Financial Officers and Tax Executives Executive Study Group E-Mail List
List Guidelines
Here are some list guidelines we established to make the National
Restaurant Association's Financial Officers and Tax Executives E-Mail List as productive, friendly
and useful as possible.
1.
Encouraged Subjects
Please DO use the list to post your succinct questions and answers,
announcements about events, and input on discussions of workplace
issues.
2.
Discouraged Subjects
- Commercial solicitations. Do not post commercial messages.
Contact people directly with products and services which you
believe would help them.
- Anticompetitive
topics. Any time competitors within an industry gather (even
electronically), care must be exercised to assure that violations
of antitrust laws do not take place. List members must avoid
any collusive practices or discussions. "Collusion" is a secret
agreement to fraud and usually involves product boycotts,
restrictive market allocation, refusal to deal with a third
party, or price-restraining activities. Discussions regarding
any of these sensitive areas may be construed as implicit
violations of antitrust laws.
- Examples
of topics to avoid:
- Avoid discussions of pricing, such as the prices you
pay and charge, including labor costs.
- Avoid discussions of market share allocation.
- Avoid discussions of quality ratings of products or
suppliers, especially those that may cause a competitor
to lock out or stop buying from a specific supplier.
- Avoid all areas which might have anti-competitive repercussions.
3.
General Netiquette
If you refer your fellow list members to other Web sites, include
the "http://" part of the URL in your e-mail messages.
This makes it easier to readers with smart mail applications to
link to that Web address. Example: Use "http://www.restaurant.org"
instead of "www.restaurant.org."
4.
Please Avoid Sending E-Mail Attachments
Don't send e-mail attachments to list posts. Instead, offer
to provide the data to those who request it, or put it up on the
Web for voluntary download. Not everyone has the ability to read
attachments.
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