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Where applicable, all materials on this site are © Copyright the Regents of The University of Michigan.

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Special thanks for most of the icons on our home page goes to the talented people over at the Iconfactory. The Iconfactory icons are the copyright of The Iconfactory.

The information on this site is believed to be correct. But, as with anything, may be subject to errors, human or machine, and / or may be out of date due to time constraints. You assume the risk and responsibility of how you use this information.

You agree that you will not reproduce, sell, transfer, or modify any of the data presented, or use of any such data for commercial purpose, without the prior express written permission of The University of Michigan.

The primary objective of this site is to provide information to the University community as efficiently as possible. It is therefore our policy to be light on graphics and heavy on information. We hope this site fulfills your requirements.

This site is coded as close to the established standards as possible and tested with many browsers to ensure maximum compatibility. Designing to standards helps promote accessibility for people with less resources. Our current standard is HTML 4.0 Transitional.

We test our design assumptions against several browsers (in addition to Internet Explorer):

• Text only:
• Lynx
• Links
• Normal vision:
• iCab
• Konqueror
• Mozilla, Firefox (daily testing)
• Netscape
• OmniWeb
• Opera
• Safari
• Low vision:
• Not yet testing. Please contact Plant Operations Web Services if you wish us to test in your low-vision browser.

Plant Operations' contact information page

The University of Michigan contact information page

Policies of mail from umich.edu's plantopsweb address:

• All mail will be in plain text format.
• No attachments will be sent unrequested.
• All mail sent via human intervention will be cryptographically signed with a PGP key. A notice in the mail signature will state such and give they key location (see below).
• We are working on a way to have automatic server-generated mail signed with the same key.

umich.edu's plantopsweb key http://www.plantops.umich.edu/about/plantopsweb.txt

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Policies of mail to umich.edu's plantopsweb address:

• All unsolicited commercial email (a.k.a. spam) will be fully reported.
• Effective September 1, 2003, per Michigan Public Act 42 of 2003, it is illegal to send us spam.

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