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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