Announcements and Coming Events

Regular weekly Chair people and Greeters needed If you are a regular chatter, who has been in chat for over 30 days, and have 90 or more days sobriety and wish to chair, please see Scott!  If you have 30 + days sober, and wish to be a greeter please see Brenda,  for service positions! thank you in advance for your service work!.

Scott will be chairing the Saturday Beginners Meeting/Workshop.

Christine ... will be the guest speaker on Friday  the 30th of July 2010, at the Friday Steps and Traditions Meeting.Topic Step 12. 

Speaker needed ...  for the Tuesday Night in England Meeting,3:30pm est. August 3 2010

Big Book Help!

If you are new to AA and do not have the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, please ask a monitor for help in finding one and a link to the online version!

Chat Room Guidelines ... Read Before Entering

The chat rooms serve as both our meeting room and fellowship hall. For meeting times, please see the meeting schedule.

To check your time for meetings around the world, on the World Clock.

If a meeting is in progress when you enter the chat rooms, please take a few moments to become oriented. Usually, a greeter will contact you privately and will inform you of the topic being discussed and the basics of using the chat rooms.
During non-meeting times, much socializing occurs. Though The e-AA Group of Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinions on outside issues, individuals often do, and most likely you will hear a few. 

Decorum Guidelines in Progress 

The following are chatroom-specific examples of inappropriate content. They have been used by what we currently call "monitors" and passed along informally until now.

• Extended discussions of non-AA programs (see Note 1 in Decorum Guidelines)
• Recommendations and discussions of what drugs or medications a chatter should be taking (aka "playing doctor")
  
• Quoting, just because he or she can, line after line of religious or other texts, unrelated to any current discussion thread and intended to disrupt (imagine, for example, trying to chat with a newcomer and every other line on the screen is a quote from the Bible)
• Harassment or "stalking" of any type 
• "13th Stepping" and extended flirting, or "virtual sex" (see Note 2 in Decorum Guidelines) 
• Sexual inunedo and crude remarks (see Note 3 in Decorums Guidelines)
• Profanity (see Note 4 in Decorum Guidelines) 
• Personal attacks
• Anti-AA (or anti-e-AA Group) remarks and discussions
• Vulger or sexual talk in private chat is innappropriate. Logs are read, including private chats.
  

Decorum in General

Standard Internet decorum applies (see any reputable ISP's "terms of use" policy). The following are not allowed (anywhere on the e-AA web site or email lists -- or within the chatrooms):

• content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially or ethnically objectionable
  
• content that will harm minors in any way
  
• content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party
• any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation
  

Please refer to the Chat Room Decorum Guidelines for further information concerning this groups guidelines.

Profiles and Personal Information

The e-AA group attempts to keep our chat room a safe, friendly, AA-oriented 12-Step-focused room. There are several billion people who have access to the internet. Once in the chat rooms, registered users will have access to information you enter in your profile or share in open chat. We urge caution in filling out profiles and providing email addresses and other contact information. The e-AA Group reserves the right to deny or delete any inappropriate screen names. The monitors may read the chat transcripts and all private chats in an effort to keep the room a safe and freindly place. All private chats are strickly confidential.