EMERGCOM ECHO RULES
Last modified June 6, 2011
BY posting in this echo you agree to abide by these posted
rules. They are posted on the first day of every month for
your convenience.
We welcome you to the emergcom echo and hope you find this
forum helpful in your public service radio endeavors.
THe purpose of the emergcom echo is to assist volunteer
radio operators with discussion of techniques and equipment
that can be of benefit to emergency anddisaster
communi-cators. Though its primary focus is on amateur radio
emergency and disastercommunications discussion of other
radio services is permitted.
We invite interested volunteer and professional
communicators to participate in emergcom and ask you to take
note of a few simple rules as follows:
1. THis is not a place to advertise buy/sell trade items or
wants. Take it to the other echoes which are appropriate.
POsters of pyramid schemes, advertising 900 numbers etc.
WIll not be warned even once. CHain letters, get rich
schemes etc. are not welcome here! YOu can immediately lose
your access to this echo. NO discussion, no second warning.
multiline signatures are also unwelcome. High ascii is
permitted so long as it is necessary to convey proper names
of individuals, etc.
2. English is the official language of this echomail
conference. We understand that for many ENglish is a second
or third language however, and expect participants to show
some tolerance and not parse posts by those individuals who
don't natively speak the language for errors.
3. KEep discussions friendly. Debate issues and don't attack
personalities. HOpefully we're all here to improve our
ability to be of service to the public during a
communications emergency.
4. Our primary focus is radio communications in emergency or
disaster situations. We don't want a "ham vs. cb" or code
vs. no code debate raging here. SUch debates are not
welcome. THough the echo moderator is a firm believer in the
utility of continuous wave international morse for
communicating when all other modes aren't as useful there is
no desire to have the code vs. no code debates running here.
every mode and/or technique has its place. DIscussion of
techniques or radio services is not off topic so long as the
focus is on providing emergency and/or disaster
communications. Discussion of strengths and weaknesses of
various modes will not be considered off topic so long as
the discussion is friendly and sticks to facts and carefully
considered opinions.
5. Echo participants who cannot follow these simple rules
will be warned once via fidonet netmail. IF that fails
he/she will be warned in the echo. This moderator prefers to
handle such warnings via netmail however. IF a public
warning is warranted because netmail doesn't work then I'll
post to the offending thread and ask that it be taken
elsewhere or remain topical. TO keep moderation out of the
public echo, the moderator asks that a poster warned via
netmail respond to the message indicating that it was
received.
Upon a second occurrence the operator of the system where
you read this echo will be asked to curtail your access. IF
the offending party is a sysop his/her feed will be
contacted. sysops hosting posters who warrant moderator
attention will be contacted via fidonet netmail and advised.
If a sysop does not offer users netmail access we ask that
he/she notify the offending users of our communication. Upon
a second offense the moderator will see to getting the
user's access cut. we want you to continue to participate,
and we would really rather not be in the business of
policing fidonet traffic. Please note that most moderator
postings to the echo will be clearly identified. Otherwise
the moderator will participate in the echo using his real
name.
6. NO gating of this echo outside fidonet without express
moderator approval.
7. IMportant for sysops: CHeck your configuration.
Posts from you or your users should show a valid FIdonet
address in the header or origin line. BOth would be nice,
but one place is mandatory! Any poster who has access should
be able to automatically reply via netmail to a post in the
echo. THis helps keep off topic chatter off echoes, as well
as enables the moderators to deal with undesirable conditions
in the echo. THIs one isn't negotiable, no gray areas.
8. YOur moderator has a zero tolerance policy for spam.
Anyone providing a gate or other automated posting facility
from an internet listserv or usenet forum should endeavor to
block all postings which are not relevant to the stated
purpose of the echo. IF this cannot be done reliably the
system operator providing such a gateway will be warned
once. UPon a second occurrence the moderator will endeavor
to institute a feed cut. Anyone wishing to provide such a
gateway should first contact the moderator before
instituting such a gateway. YOur moderator suggests you
monitor such a listserv or forum for a sufficient period of
time to assure yourself that therewill be no need for
moderator action resulting from such a gateway.
7. THe moderator will appoint additional moderators as he
sees the need and subject to their willingness to serve in
that capacity. LEave moderating to the moderator and duly
appointed co-moderators. Take rules debates and discussions
to netmail or email, not in the echo.
The echo tag emergcom is copyright 2007 by Richard WEbb.
Please address comments or questions to the echo moderator
at 1:116/901. The moderator can also be reached via internet
email at elspider@bellsouth.net
73 de nf5b
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* Origin: Emergcom echo moderator (1:116/901)
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