Space on the UUA's World Wide Web server, domain
name services, email services, and other web services are available
to groups recognized by the UUA Board of Trustees. These services
and how to apply for them are explained in the following paragraphs.
If an organization becomes ineligible for these services,
the Director of Electronic Communication reserves the right to terminate
these services, with appropriate notice.
Web Server Space
Only groups recognized by the UUA Board of Trustees,
Associate and Affiliate organizations
of the UUA, UUA Districts and the Church of the Larger Fellowship, (including those in the process of affiliating), are
eligible for space on the UUA web server. Apply
for web server space here
Domain Name Service
Second Level Domain Name Service (e.g. beacon.org)
will be granted only in limited circumstances at the sole discretion
of the UUA Director of Electronic Communication.
Third Level Domain Name Service may be granted
by the Director of Electronic Communication to Districts (e.g.
pswd.uua.org), Publications (e.g. world.uua.org), Associate
and Affiliate organizations of the UUA (e.g. cuups.uua.org),
and the Church of the Larger Fellowship. Departments of the
UUA will not normally be granted third level domain name service.
Fourth or Fifth level Domain Name Service may
be granted by the Director of Electronic Communication to congregations
of the UUA. (e.g. uc.losalamos.uua.org)
Apply
for domain name service.
Email Aliases
Because of the workload involved in maintenance
of email aliases (e.g. abc@uua.org), creation of email aliases
will be limited. Email aliases may be granted by the Director
of Electronic Communication for districts, publications, departments,
associate and affiliate organizations of the UUA, and groups
recognized by the UUA Board of Trustees. Member congregations,
except the Church of the Larger Fellowship, are not eligible. To apply for an email alias, write to UUA Office of Electronic Communcation oec@uua.org 
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Other web services
Other web services, such as streaming of audio
and video, Java applets, web-based bulletin boards, guestbooks,
uploading of cgi scripts, and storage of large files, are restricted
and must be approved by the Director of Electronic Communication, oecdirector@uua.org .
uua.org Services During UUA Election Campaigns
The UUA Board of Trustees has established rules
for UUA elections that affect online services. There are also some specific guidelines for email list managers during election times, which can be read on the "List Manager's Guide."
Sponsorship, Approval, and Termination of
Email List Services
The UUA must approve the creation of lists to be managed
on UUA.org.
Applications are approved by the Director of OEC.
The UUA is pleased to sponsor electronic mailing
lists for UUA committees and districts, associate and affiliate
organizations of the UUA, and groups recognized by the UUA Board
of Trustees to foster communication within and among UU organizations.
At the discretion of the Office of Electronic Communication,
lists may also be created on topics that are likely to be of interest
to a significant number of UUs or potential UUs and that relate
to the mission of the UUA.
Participation in uua.org's lists and bulletin boards
is a privilege and not a right. The UUA reserves the right to
suspend participants from lists and bulletin boards who violate
standards and rules put forward by the Board or the Electronic
Communications Committee. Procedures for due process in conflict
mediation have been established by the Electronic
Communications Committee. Decisions on suspension are delegated
to the UUA Office of Electronic Communication.
We do not sponsor lists for individual congregations,
with the exception of the Church of the Larger Fellowship, nor for groups that have no connection
with the UUA or with Unitarian Universalism.
To enhance district communication, districts may
apply for up to ten UUA-hosted email lists which relate to the
work of the district. District Boards are responsible for those
lists and their management.
Associate and affiliate organizations may apply
for up to five UUA-hosted email lists which relate to the work
of the organization. Organization Boards are responsible for those
lists and their management. If an organization's UUA-affiliation
is not renewed, their lists are subject to review and possible
termination by the Office of Electronic Communication.
If in the judgment of the Office of Electronic
Communication the purpose of a list changes from the purpose stated
in its application, the OEC may terminate the list.
If the endorsement by the sponsoring organization
for a list changes from the endorsement stated in its application,
the Director of Electronic Communication may terminate the list.
Every list must have a UU-related topic or audience and a descriptive name. The UUA sponsors only lists that serve the UUA's mandate. Names of mailing lists must be stated as clearly as possible (given length limitations) and applications must describe the function, topic, or audience of the list.
Apply
for a UUA-hosted email list.
Function of Email Lists and Responsibilities
of List Managers
The OEC is responsible for setting general standards
for on-list conduct and for defining the roles and responsibility
of list managers. The purpose of these standards will be to maintain
fairness, respect for individual and group rights, to see that
all subscribers (including the list managers) are accorded worth
and dignity in list communications, to protect the UUA from legal
action or damage to its reputation, and to communicate to list
managers that part of their role is to maintain a balance on their
lists between too much control and too little.
The responsibility of the Office of Electronic
Communication is to to
determine whether these standards are being maintained and to
take action when the standards are violated. These actions may
include temporarily or permanently suspending list membership,
temporarily or permanently suspending posting privileges, removing
list managers, changing list status to private or moderated, and
eliminating lists.
Lists may not be made private, moderated, or hidden
except with the permission of the Office of Electronic Communication.
An exception is changing an unmoderated list to moderated on a
temporary basis when needed to impose a "cooling off period" or
the like. When making such a temporary change, the email list
site managers must be notified immediately, and the change may
remain in effect for only 72 hours unless a longer period or change
is approved by the Office of Electronic Communication. Private
lists may be made public, moderated lists may be made unmoderated,
closed lists may be made open, and hidden lists may be made visible
without permission, but permission will be required if changing
back later.
The Office of Electronic Communication must approve
of all list managers, both new and replacement. All list managers
will be subscribed to the lists they manage and to the list managers'
list. They may receive list mail as a digest, but they may not
unsubscribe or set "nomail."
List subscribers participate in uua.org lists at
their own risk. Members of the UUA Staff, Board of Trustees, and
Committees who participate on uua.org lists do so solely as private
individuals, and should not be assumed to be participating in
any official capacity unless otherwise stated. Neither the UUA
nor the individual list managers are responsible for the content
of any list except announcement lists managed by UUA staff.
Requests for Listing and Linking of Congregational Websites
Before a congregation's website is linked from
uua.org the Director of Electronic Communication may request authorization
from the congregation's Board or Minister. The elected governing
body of the congregation is understood through this authorization
to approve of and accept responsibility for the contents of the
page.
