-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On July 30, 2002 20:50 pm, Wm.G.McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:04:36 -0400 (EDT) > > Russell McOrmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Ethics is a rather personal thing. You'll want to define > | membership criteria for a SIG, and totally avoid the phrase > | 'ethics'. > > No. You may have your personal beliefs and may even share them with > some people, but a set of ethics is defined with respect some > external standard by which behaviour can be measured. Developing a > code of ethics is about a lot more than deciding how you feel about > an issue. It's about defining how a professional group, as a whole, > should behave.
Would you be looking for an 'ethos' then? The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement. > computer for any reason whatsoever. Getting caught doing so, > advocating, instructing or supporting those who do so could be > regarded as 'conduct unbecoming a professional'.... You wouldn't happen to be ex-military would you Bill? I can't count the number of times I heard 'conduct unbecoming a member of Her Majesty's Canadian Forces' :) - -- Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth. - ------ J.P. Pasnak, CD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9R4XHBMRgzmzdk08RApjYAKC/9AB4cMBZBa7x9WlbY91LBpPVwQCfdLeq xDM0NXalsARu61ZDy2Qq+MM= =UPCR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
