Conference rules for the EMERGCOM echo:                  rev. 25 Feb 13
 Posting Frequency: 1st of the month.
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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 and disaster
communicators. Though its primary focus is on amateur radio emergency
and disaster communications 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 there will be no need for moderator action
resulting from such a gateway.

9. 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 moderator at 1:3634/12.

Richard Webb : moderator emeritus
Mark Lewis   : moderator


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