Message Board Rules and Safety

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Message Board Rules and Safety

Essence Of Recovery (EOR) is a privately-owned
internet recovery site dedicated to the 12-step programs.

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We at EOR strive to provide you with a safe, positive, helpful, recovery-based message boards.

Our safety features include secure registration requiring a valid email address, Word watch to filter
offensive terminology, message boards monitoring, and banning of message board users who violate the rules.

You, the message board user, are also responsible for your own safety while accessing our message boards:

1. Do not register with your real name or use your real name in your email address, and do not give out your real name.

2. Do not give out personal information--such as your telephone number, address, or place of business.

3. Do not share your password with other users.

4. If you do not want others to see your email address, be sure to block it from view in your profile.

5. Do not assume that anything anyone says on a message board is the truth, and be especially wary of anyone who wants to meet you in person. Always ask yourself why?

Cybersex, using excessive profanity, abusiveness, stalking, and/or harassing other users is not allowed on our message boards. Anyone engaging in such behavior will be banned without further notice.

Freedom of Speech

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Occasionally an uninformed chat-room user (usually one who has violated the chat-room rules and been banned) wishes to "make a stand" and threaten lawsuits over First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads as follows:

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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Freedom of speech is a constitutional right in the framework of government versus citizens. The right to freedom of speech does not apply in someone's business, home, etc. In other words, your right to free speech ends at our front door. When you're in our home, you follow our rules.

If you are banned for violating our rules and actually have the moxie to walk into an attorney's office to try to begin a First Amendment lawsuit, please be sure to invite us along. We are not a glum lot and always enjoy a good laugh.

Message Boards:
Essence Of Recovery is a recovery web site, and our message boards are provided for recovery support, recovery messaging, online recovery meeting lists, and helping the newcomer. Anyone caught using the EOR message boards for cyber sex, dating service, stocking, or any kind of abuse, will be promptly banned.

Thank you, Max- Webmaster EOR