Guidelines
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SITE SCHEDULEAll times on the Staying Cyber Web site and in the following schedule will be listed as U.S. Eastern Standard Time (GMT -05:00) All Meetings will be open for comments from Sunday until Saturday. The Meetings will be refreshed at the Technical Cyrvant's convenience on Sunday. Spamming any part of Staying Cyber for commercial business, will be edited. For the purposes of the posting guidelines a day is defined as midnight to midnight EST. DISCUSSION MEETINGThe format for this meeting is a week long Topic Discussion. The first member who comes in at the start of a new week can pick a topic and they will be the 'Leader' for the week. We ask that all sharing in this meeting be limited to the topic as it relates to your alcoholism. 12 & 12 MEETING (Step & Tradition)The format for this meeting is a week long discussion on the Step or Tradition selected for the week. A Step will be discussed weekly except for the last Sunday of the month when a Tradition will be the Topic. Steps will be discussed sequentially and the Tradition selected will correspond with the current month (Jan=1, Feb.=2, etc.) We ask that all sharing in this meeting be limited to the topic as it relates to your alcoholism. EARLY SOBRIETY MEETINGEARLY SOBRIETY Each week a topic will be chosen from a suggested list to start the meeting. Those with less than one year may share on that or any other topic. COFFEE POTThe Coffee Pot is intended for general discussion on any topics not necessarily relating to alcoholism including: jokes, greetings, announcements, business meetings, etc., so that the meetings can stay focused on the topics. The following posting limits for all forums are enforced by the forum software: MEMBERSHIPThe only other requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Anyone who has that desire may share in the meetings. Anyone may read the various forums with out registering. In registering, you agree to adhere to the Terms of Service Agreement & Meeting Guidelines. REGISTRATIONAnyone is able to read at StayingCyber but posting requires registration. At the top right of the forum page is the “Register” link. You will be required to accept the Terms of Service before continuing. Please read the terms before clicking the "Accept" button at the bottom. The only information required for registration is a name and a valid e-mail address. Please take extra care when filling out the email address because this must be done correctly for the registration process to work properly. After you have filled out all of the information and clicked “submit”, you will receive the confirmation page. At this point the system will automatically send an email to verify that you are using a valid email address. You will need to use the link in this confirmation e-mail to activate your membership. The Name and Location that you furnished at registration will be displayed with every post. First name and last initial is recommended as a name. If you or your Internet Service Provider use a spam filter please make sure that your settings allow mail from the domain stayingcyber.org. Please do this before you register as the activation e-mail normally takes only a few moments to reach you. Registration information and forum preferences may be edited by clicking on the "Settings" link at the top right of the page. POSTING INSTRUCTIONSYou must be logged in to Staying Cyber to post at any of the meetings or in the Coffeepot.This site does not use Internet Chat. Chat is used for instantaneous communication. Your comment may be of any length except where otherwise suggested and you are not limited to the size of the text box. DO NOT use your <TAB> key, it will take you out of the text box. Even though the text will continue across the text box or wrap around by itself (depending on your browser), this is not how the text will look when it is posted on the meeting page. It will format itself automatically so you don't need to <RETURN> or <ENTER> within a paragraph, just type continuously and it will take care of itself. A single <RETURN> or <ENTER> will have no effect of the way that the text is presented after you submit your comment. DISRUPTIVE POSTSIn accordance with the first AA tradition "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity", if you have come to carry any message directly opposed to the AA method of recovery, we suggest you seek a more appropriate site. This is an AA related message board that encourages everyone to carry the message of hope that AA offers. Posts that attack the very nature of AA, and continual or offensive posting (including multiple registrations) intended to disrupt in any of the Meetings or Coffee Pot, will not be allowed to remain. Any Violations of the TOS Agreement and Guidelines will result in the loss of posting privileges. The Steering Committee is committed to honoring the Fourth Tradition and believes that being placed in read-only status does not violate the Third Tradition. DIFFICULTY VIEWING COMMENTSIf you are having difficulty viewing the entire page of comments on the Coffee Pot and/or Meetings pages it is usually due to the size of the pages after several days of posting. You may also be experiencing problems if you have an old computer. If you are using WebTV HELP!If you have a question regarding AA, if you're having a personal problem, or if you're having a problem with alcoholism and you would like some help via email please send a message to: If you have a question or comment about the website please send a message to: 7th TRADITIONThe Pass The Hat page contains information on how we are practicing the 7th Tradition. We are currently collecting donations at a PO Box and have established a checking account. You may also donate via PayPal. Our only current expenses are:
The balance of the funds, after prudent reserve, will be sent to GSO. If you have any questions you can e-mail the Treasurer at treasurer@stayingcyber.org 11TH TRADITIONWe observe all A.A.'s principles and Traditions on our web sites. As anonymity is the "spiritual foundation of all our Traditions," we practice anonymity on A.A. web sites at all times. An A.A. web site is a public medium which has the potential for reaching the broadest possible audience and, therefore, requires the same safeguards that we use at the level of press, radio and film. In accordance with the 11th tradition, it is strongly suggested that you do not post personal information when posting to the forums. CAUTION!The Steering Committee would like to warn all members that posting ANY personal information (E-mail or Postal addresses, phone numbers, etc.) anywhere on the WWW can be risky. Any time you post your e-mail address on a public Web site, you are opening yourself up to e-mail from anyone who views the site, as well as e-mail spammers who use spiders that search web pages and collect e-mail addresses for mass marketing. Although many members are finding meaningful contacts through e-mail exchange, some have also experienced unfortunate problems corresponding with other members via e-mail. Should you choose to post any personal information on the Staying Cyber web site it is entirely your decision and you assume all risks. ANY E-MAIL ADDRESSES OBTAINED IN THE REGISTRATION PROCESS ARE HELD IN THE STRICTEST CONFIDENCE AND WILL NOT BE RELEASED TO ANYONE. The same holds true for any e-mail addresses obtained when you e-mail a Steering Committee member. ARCHIVESThe Archives of our previous Meetings, Coffee Pots, and Early Business Meetings are available for reading. The Coffee Pot pages will no longer be archived, due to the large size of the pages. OFFICERS & ELECTIONSElections have been held and the new officers will begin their respective terms beginning January 1, 2008. IGR Alternate IGR Trustees Treasurer
Each officer, as well as the Technical Cyrvants, will comprise the Steering Committee to advise the group on its structure. The Technical Cyrvants will serve in an advisory but non-voting role, although the Technical Cyrvants will be given one collective vote in any motion brought before the Steering Committee. Because of the size of membership, anonymity issues, and tech time as it relates to the difficulty in doing so via the web, regular business meetings are held between members of the Steering Committee to govern Staying Cyber. Technical Cyrvant vote: the Technical Cyrvants will be given one vote in any issue provided that they can unanimously agree. You may e-mail any or all of the Steering Committee Members at the following: Steering Committee Members IGR - bethk Treasurer - Tim V. Alt. Treasurer - Techs - Barry L, Glen H, Miranda C, Tim G, Mary W, Joe P The procedure for voting for officers is as close to the third legacy procedure as we could get online. For election of officers there will be a form for each office that will remain up for two weeks prior to voting. Members can "accept" a nomination themselves only, by entering their name in the form box corresponding to the office they want to run for. All names that are entered will be added to the list for that office. At the end of the two weeks, if there is only one nominee they will assume that office. If there is more than one nominee, a vote will be held. Due to the time limitations of online voting, the elections will be on the basis of “most votes wins”. Voting will be done via email to the voting link, which will be forwarded to the techs (all e-mail addresses will be kept confidential). Any member may suggest or recommend a new idea or change to the steering committee by email to a steering committee member. The recommendation will then be discussed within the steering committee and voted upon. The person making the suggestion/recommendation may be asked to provide additional input, and will be notified by email as to the decision and reasoning of the steering committee. The essence of the discussion and decision is normally posted on the Coffee Pot. Suggestions will be implemented or not based on the decision of the steering committee. The steering committee will always work toward the group conscious using the guidance of the 12 Traditions. Changes will be made only with substantial unanimity of the steering committee. All email addresses will be held in confidence.
The following offices will comprise a Steering Committee, who will meet via email and web forum to oversee the month-to-month operation of the group. GSO liaison (elected two years) Treasurer (not elected) Tim V who has made a long term commitment to coordinate finances 4 Trustees (elected one year) 5 Technical Cyrvants (not elected) Barry L, Glen H, Tim G, Mary W and Miranda C who have made a long term commitment to maintain this web site.The Technical Cyrvants together comprise one (1) vote on the Steering Committee. The following are the duties of the offices:A MINIMUM OF 1 YEAR SOBRIETY IS REQUIRED FOR ALL STEERING COMMITTEE POSITIONS IGR: (open to any member) Represent our group with the Online Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous. Maintain contact with the General Services Office. GSO has expressed interest in our attempt to have an AA meeting on the WWW, and asked to be informed of our progress. The liaison will need to keep up to date on any policy regarding AA online as this is a developing area. (requires no technical skills, beyond using e-mail, as far as we know GSO does not yet have an e-mail address, so this job would include long distance telephone calls or paper correspondence with GSO in New York City.) Trustees: 4 Positions (open to any Member) Will be responsible for participating in online Steering Committee discussions on a regular basis, to discuss and vote on the group conscience, on matters as they arise. Trustees may volunteer to perform other duties in assisting in the expansion of the site, proof reading, simple text editing in a word processor. (requires no technical skills, beyond using a web browser and e-mail) Treasurer: (open to any member in the Monroe county Pennsylvania USA area) Check PO Box at Minisink Hills Post Office for 7th tradition contributions, Deposit same in ESSA bank account. Pay quarterly server rental fees. Send excess after prudent reserve to GSO. Make a Quarterly financial report, for the techs to put on the treasurer’s report auto responder so it is available to all members. (requires no technical skills beyond keeping a check book and using e-mail) Technical Cyrvants: Duties include administering and maintaining the Staying Cyber web site. Refreshing the weekly meetings and coffee pots, changing e-mail (POP) configurations, etc. Any of these Guidelines may be changed by a motion and vote by the Steering Committee.
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