Forming a more formal listing means that hopefully everyone is playing under the same ethical considerations all the time. I think if we could form these into a fairly decent set it would be nice to have them hosted somewhere. It would be great to come up with a nice even ten of them. Pre-game alliances are strictly forbidden. Hosts should be considered valid players in a game they are hosting without having to specify.
Players can communicate with each other freely, be it within the game, email, phone or fax.
Utilizing bugs which give distinct advantage to one player over others is forbidden. This would include one player dropping out, and forwarding all turn files to another player to play his race for him. If your host is unethical enough to cheat when hosting, he's unethical enough to say he's not playing, and play anyway. Players should remember when speaking to the host that he could be one of the players. Although debatable, I feel this needs to be addressed, if for no other reason than if some players presume this to be true, while others attempt to limit communication to within the game, those playing only within the game are at a severe disadvantage.