This echo once again has a moderator/caretaker who actually   
   participates in Fidonet.   
   For those of you who might have tuned in by just linking to   
   everything available at your uplink, here's some basic echo   
   guidelines for you.   
      
   THe purpose of this conference is support for the squish mail conference   
   processor written by Scut Dudley.    
   Squish is a companion to Maximus BBS and is a full featured mail processing   
   package.    
      
   MEssages posted in this conference should pertain to squish and squish related   
   software.  some ancillary packages such as   
   sqafix may have their own echoes.  THose echomail conferences may be inactive   
   however, so discussion of any software   
   which can work with squish format message bases is permitted and encouraged.   
       
   Usual rules of echomail etiquette apply at all times in this echomail   
   conference. NO  test  posts,  etc.  When  a  thread drifts  off  topic  for    
   the  echo move it to an appropriate conference or to private mail.   
      
   NO widget wars  will  be  tolerated.  THis  means  operating systems, mail   
   processor packages and bbs software. THis does not mean that a discussion    
   which  addresses  strengths  and weaknesses  of  various  pieces of software   
   is automatically deemed off topic however. Those with common sense  shouldn't   
   have to be told when the line is crossed.   
      
   Should  there be a violation of these rules it will normally be addressed in   
   netmail by the moderator(s) of this echomail conference. At most you will see   
   a post to the thread from a moderator requesting that the thread be  brought    
   back  into compliance  with  these  posted  rules  and guidelines. This   
   message  will  be  addressed  globally  to  all.  Any  other communication     
   regarding  rules  violations  or  moderation issues will be handled by netmail   
   only. Since this  echomail conference is only relevant to system operators and   
   those of point systems it is felt that netmail should  be  sufficient for    
   dealing  with  other moderation  issues.  Posters who violate conference rules   
   and guidelines more than  once  within  the same  thread may be subject to   
   possible bannishment from the conference.   
   I'd prefer not to have to go that route however.  Difficult   
   to enforce if somebody's intent on circumventing it, and   
   most reasonable folks shouldn't need it.   
      
   Gating this echomail conference outside Fidonet is not permitted.   
      
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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