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Think outside the [pop-up] box. We won't show pop-up ads or otherwise intrude on your eyeballs with unwanted advertising.

Get neighborly. We love our online community, but sometimes it's fun to see actual human beings in the flesh. So get out there, and organize yourself a local NetSquared group. Take this as your personal challenge to create an event that is so wildly fun and productive that it kicks the ass of our fancy-pants Bay Area gathering.

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Love a troll. Blog posts, forum posts, e-mail exchanges and other posts on Net2 should be generous, insightful and loving -- or at least, not mean. That means no flaming and no personal attacks. And if someone else steps over the line, try to remember what your mom used to say: "I don't care who started it!" That's how we feel. So turn the other cheek, rise above it, and assume that the occasional flame is just a misunderstanding.

Our playground is your playground. Whether you scream onto the site on a supersonic ADSL line or stroll in over dialup, NetSquared will let you play nicely with your fellow nonprofit travelers. Every effort will be made to make content available in multiple forms (e-mail, RSS, web) and to make sure that formats are accessible to people with low-bandwidth connections or older hardware.