Live_audio echo rules   
      
                     Last revision June 4, 2010   
      
                Your host and moderator:  Richard Webb   
      
   By posting in this conference you indicate your acceptance of these   
   rules.  THey are posted on the 15th of each month.   
      
   Sound reinforcement is  becoming more necessary in a wider range of   
   activities than ever before.  theatrical productions; worship   
   services and gatherings; concerts; meetings and seminars.  There   
   are many reasons that this is so.     
   the modern multi-purpose space isn't tailored to provide good   
   listening to people at all points; climate control systems are   
   noisy; outside sounds creep in, and worst of all, thanks to higher   
   ambient noise we're on the average more prone to hearing loss.     
      
   The corollary to this is that sound reinforcement is often   
   misunderstood and solutions improperly applied.     
      
   The live_audio echo is here to serve as a forum for discussion of   
   sound reinforcement techniques and equipment by amateurs and   
   professionals in the field.  A few simple rules will keep   
   everything friendly and make this a place where fidonet   
   participants can come to get questions answered and offer solutions   
   to common sound reinforcement problems.     
   We ask that you post only in ENglish and avoid theuse of high   
   bit ascii.   
      
   1.  USe your real name.  IF not sure, check birth certificate or   
   other legal documents. IF your real name does not appear in   
   the from: field then it should be plainly visible in the body   
   of the post.   
      
   2.  NO off topic posts, including chain letters, pyramid schemes,   
   test posts, etcetera.     
   "Where  are you from" might be relevant so as to find somebody who   
   can pay a visit to a poster's facility to help him/her solve a   
   problem however.     
   Home recording, home theater and car audio are not topical   
   to this echo.   
      
   3.  Personal attacks will *not* be tolerated.  Check your flame   
   thrower at the door.  Conduct yourself as a reasoning thinking   
   adult human being at all times in this echo.   
      
   Because of the nature of sound reinforcement there are times when   
   a poster may suggest a technique or practice which could endanger   
   others or himself.  After all, we're dealing with construction   
   techniques and electricity quite often.  When a poster recommends   
   such practices debunk the recommendation but don't get personal.     
      
   4.  IF discussing building and/or electrical codes do attempt to   
   cite actual regulations.  Remember that these vary according to   
   locale however.     
      
   5.  Gating of this echo outside fidonet without moderator approval   
   is forbidden.   
      
   6.  Usual standards of fidonet posting apply:  Single line   
   signatures, limit your quotes, etcetera.     
      
   7.  Leave moderating to the moderator and any appointed co-   
   moderators.     
      
   8.  Your moderator will ask the poster of any message not   
   conforming to these rules to curtail such activity once in the open   
   echo.   If the activity persists the moderator or appointed co-   
   moderators will take steps to see that echo access   is denied the   
   offending poster.  All other discussions of moderation issues   
   should take place via fidonet netmail or email.     
      
   THIs echo belongs to those who would use it and find it beneficial.    
   Your moderator will endeavor to keep its status current with any   
   requirements for continued backbone carriage and will   
   perform  any functions necessary to see that it remains   
   enjoyable and useful to its participants.   
      
   Should the moderator  choose to discontinue activity in fidonet the   
   echolist  password will be turned over to any appointed co-   
   moderator with an interest in continuing as echo moderator.     
      
   If you have recently linked to this conference please post   
   a netmail to the moderator detailing methods of user connection   
   you support which might not be listed in the nodelist, i.e.   
   www, telnet, nntp.  Occasionally we provide information about   
   this conference on related usenet groups and elsewhere.   
   THE moderator will be glad to list your bbs among these.   
      
   The moderator can be reached by fidonet netmail at 1:116/901 or via   
   internet email at richard.webb@116-901.ftn.wpusa.dynip.com.   
      
      
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