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. 0day Courier Standards v1.07                                                 .
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. These standards are not intended to replace site rules. Site rules always    .
. supersede what is written here. The purpose of this document is simply to    .
. make sure every 0day courier understands the more ambiguous rules. Please do .
. not spread this beyond the people that this concerns.                        .
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. I. Bookware                                                                  .
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.    A. Most 0day sites only allow computer related bookware but for the sake  .
.       of clarity, bookware includes:                                         .
.          books, CBT, comics, magazines, Practice tests                       .
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.    B. Computer related bookware includes:                                    .
.          computer based training (CBT), computer books, practice tests       .
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.    C. Manual addons are NOT bookware and should be uploaded as a utility.    .
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. II. Operating Systems                                                        .
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.    A. BSD includes all of:                                                   .
.          BSDI, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD                                      .
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.    B. Unix includes:                                                         .
.          AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, OS400, OSF, QNX, Solaris, Tru64                   .
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.    C. Releases tagged as Novell or Netware are for the Novell Netware OS.    .
.       Netware is not windows or linux or unix.                               .
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.    D. Some releases are tagged as MacOSX.PPC. This should not be confused    .
.       with PDA releases tagged as PPC. MacOSX releases are not PDA.          .
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. III. Languages                                                               .
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.    A. European languages include:                                            .
.          Albanian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosniak, Breton, Bulgarian,      .
.          Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, .
.          Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin,      .
.          Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,    .
.          Serbian, Serbian-Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish,     .
.          Turkish, Ukrainian                                                  .
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.    B. Languages that have been released and are NOT European include:        .
.          Afrikaans, Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Kazakh,    .
.          Korean, Persian, Russian, Thai, Uzbek                               .
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.    C. Translation software should be accepted on a site that accepts any of  .
.       the translated languages.                                              .
.       Accepted on every site:                                                .
.          LingvoSoft.Talking.Dictionary.2006.English.to.Thai                  .
.       Accepted where German or Spanish is allowed:                           .
.          LingvoSoft.Talking.Dictionary.2006.German.to.Spanish                .
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. IV. Game Rips                                                                .
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.    A. A gamerip is a game commercially released in stores which has been     .
.       ripped (cut down) to an acceptable size so that sites allow it. Small  .
.       games downloaded from web sites or small enough to fit within site     .
.       rules are not gamerips.                                                .
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.    B. If a site does not allow gamerips then cheats, trainers and updates    .
.       for gamerips are not allowed. Cheats, trainers and updates for non-    .
.       ripped games are allowed.                                              .
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. V. Autotrading                                                               .
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.    A. A courier is considered caught autotrading if they move an obvious     .
.       fake pre and do not delete it or respond to queries within 10          .
.       minutes. They are also considered caught if they move three or more    .
.       fake releases in one minute. A release is obviously fake if the        .
.       majority of couriers agree.                                            .
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. VI. Revisions                                                                .
.    v0.03. Added european languages: Albanian, Croatian, Macedonian           .
.    v0.04. Added european languages: Azerbaijani, Bosniak                     .
.           Added other language: Hebrew, Kazakh                               .
.    v0.05. Clarified translation software rule                                .
.    v0.06. Dual logins information added.                                     .
.    v0.07. Removed BSD and Linux from Unix, added Slovenian to European       .
.           languages, 0byting added to banned behaviors                       .
.    v0.08. Clarified gamerip rule                                             .
.    v0.09. Russian changed to non european language.                          .
.    v0.10. Expanded gamerip rule regarding addons of non-rips. Added rules    .
.           regarding catching and punishing auto trading.                     .
.    v1.00. First final version.                                               .
.    v1.01. Auto-refresh added to cheats. Trading 3 fakes in a minute added to .
.           cheats.                                                            .
.    v1.02. Autoget is no longer listed as an allowed behavior.                .
.    v1.03. Added European language: Breton, Catalan, Galician                 .
.           Added non-European languages: Persian, Uzbek                       .
.    v1.04. Added non-European language: Afrikaans                             .
.    v1.05. Added European languages: Belarussian, Turkish                     .
.           Split European languages into Latin and non-Latin                  .
.    v1.06. Stealing from pre dir added to banned behavior                     .
.    v1.07. Removed signatures as they have proven useless.                    .
.           Removed 'Dual Logins' section as it is useless.                    .
.           'Cheating' section replaced with 'Autotrading.'                    .
.           Punishment section of 'Autotrading' removed. Enforecement has      .
.           proven impossible.                                                 .
.           Combined Latin and non-Latin European languages again.             .
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