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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