the Fidonet Comm echo   
      
   Posting rules and guidelines   
      
   Last modified:  June 21, 2011   
      
   Moderators:  Richard Webb of 1:116/901 and DAllas HInton, 1:153/715   
      
   This echomail conference is one of the oldest in FIdonet.   
   IT is basically a "catch all" for topics not covered in other   
   echomail conferences.  since there are few echoes specifically   
   for discussion of serial communications devices such as modems   
   this is the appropriate place to discuss such topics.   
      
   WHen an echomail conference is widely available (carried on   
   various backbone systems) please post there for best response.   
   OTherwise, feel free to post here.   
      
   All posts in this echo must be germane to computer communications   
   techniques.  Discussion of hardware and software is permitted,   
   although emphasis is on the hardware.   
   All other topics should be taken elsewhere.  When the topic drifts,   
   take it to private mail, or an appropriate conference.     
      
   Other than that,  these are the only actual rules I expect to   
   promulgate for this echomail conference.     
      
   First and foremost, it is expected that all systems enabling posts   
   in this echomail conference are properly configured to show the   
   true Fidonet address of origination.  If not, the moderator will   
   ask that the problem be repaired before allowing posts from your   
   system to the comm echo.     
   Along with this, providing a gateway to/from this echomail   
   conference from FIdonet to other networks is strictly prohibited.   
   IF you wish to provide such a gateway ask permission in the   
   echo.  If permission is then granted after a poll of interested   
   users is taken and the results of said poll in favor then   
   the gateway must work in both directions, and the valid   
   address of the gate provider shown.     
      
   Multiple line signatures are strongly discouraged.  Use of real   
   names strongly encouraged.  Keep it clean, keep it polite.     
      
   All communication regarding moderation of this echomail conference   
   will take place via Fidonet netmail.  Not internet email, not smoke   
   signals or telepathy.  IF you post in this echo, or permit users of   
   your system to do so then it is assumed that you have the   
   capability to read and answer netmail.   IT is unreasonable   
   to expect moderators to have to hunt down an email address   
   which may not be available, whereas your system's address   
   should be displayed on posts originating from your system.   
   The only moderation issues which will be handled in the open   
   echo are those in which the moderator seeks guidance and input   
   from its users.   
      
   IF you're new to the world of serial communications and the   
   terminology used to discuss it you might wish to avail yourself   
   of the Comm echo primer written by Gord Hannah, the previous   
   moderator.  IT can be acquired from any FIdonet system carrying   
   the ep-fdn ep-ascii file echo, or from the headquarters of   
   the International Filegate project.  TO acquire it point   
   your web browser to   
      
   http://www.filegate.net/epub/ep-ascii/comprimr.zip   
      
      
   This information will be posted in the echo every 90 days.    
   Questions, comments and suggestions should be sent by netmail to   
   this address.   
        
      
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    * Origin: COMM echo moderator (1:116/901)