• Echo Description and Rules

    From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to All Users on Mon Jan 8 13:53:00 2001
    Echo Description and Rules

    This is a conference for the exchange of Technical Amateur
    Radio Information. All topics relating to the technical
    aspects of Ham radio are on topic.

    Your use of this echo is your consent to obey the rules herein.
    Echo access is a privilege, and not a right. There is a time and a
    place for everything, hence there are the following rules:

    1. Please keep the discussions as close to the description of the
    echo noted above. I'm not extremely technically inclined, but
    have technicial questions like many others. If you can assist
    in a message to this effect, it'd be appreciated...that's the
    spirit of Amateur Radio.

    2. Please do not use handles/aliases. To me, handles belong on a
    teapot. If your BBS software doesn't allow real name posting in
    the message header, you must post your name at the end of the
    message. Although ham radio operators are known by their name and
    callsign, signing a message with the first name, then the callsign
    is OK...I can look it up in the QRZ database to verify it.

    3. Please do not use high ascii or ANSI graphics...some users systems
    will lock up or garble the messages with this data.

    4. As per Title 47, Code Of Federal Regulations, Part 97.113.A.4,
    please conduct yourself in the echo as you would on the air...no
    obscene or profane language. Although I can't hit you with a
    Notice Of Apparent Liability To Monetary Forfeiture (a fine), I
    can institute a feed cut against you. Please don't let your
    actions jeopardize the enjoyment of those who read and contribute
    to the echo in a positive manner...some of whom may also be
    reading the echo from the same BBS as you!! Also, please keep the
    taglines clean...don't post something that you wouldn't say on the
    air. Consider the moderator as "an official echo observer".

    5. Please keep message-quoting to a minimum...only quote what is
    absolutely necessary to give those reading the message an idea
    of what you're replying to. Most BBS's are run out of the pockets
    of private sysops, and nobody wants to pay for (or see) a 25-line
    message quoted in full, just to have somebody else say "I Agree".
    Origin Lines are NOT to be quoted. However, please be sure that a
    FIDOnet origin line is in the message. Gating to other networks
    will be allowed with moderator permission.

    6. Please do NOT use ALL CAPS...it's considering SHOUTING.

    7. The official language for this echo is ENGLISH.

    8. The following messages are NOT appropriate at any time:

    A. Flaming -- if you can't say something nice about someone, don't
    say it at all. Again, please keep your "echo behavior" above
    reproach, as you hopefully would also your ham radio station.

    B. Politics and Religion -- As Linus once said, he doesn't discuss
    religion, politics, or the great pumpkin with others...and the
    same holds true in this echo. Please take these discussions
    elsewhere.

    C. Get Rich Quick Schemes or Chain Letters -- Nothing is totally
    FREE; it cost SOMEONE SOMETHING to give it. Also, as noted above,
    most Sysops are paying for their BBS's and long distance charges
    out of their own pockets, and they don't want to "pay for garbage".

    D. Adult related messages -- as noted above, don't post anything
    that you wouldn't say on the air.

    E. BBS Ads or Hamfests -- please post BBS ads to the appropriate
    FIDO or BBS Network echoes. Concerning hamfests, it does no good
    to see a message on a hamfest in the echo that is on the other
    side of the country from where the message is being read. However,
    if you want Hamfest information, I'll gladly provide it to you
    via return FIDO netmail IF:

    1. You NETMAIL the moderator at FIDO 1:19/33 with your inquiry
    for hamfest information.

    2. Your FIDOnet from which you're accessing this echo is noted
    as "continuous mail" in the nodelist.

    3. Your FIDOnet BBS is within the continental United States.

    4. The information is within QST magazine from the ARRL.

    F. Off topic messages, those not within the scope of the echo
    description noted above.

    9. All rules violations are to be addressed ONLY by the Moderator.
    Please let the Moderator moderate...although I'd prefer to just
    watch and contribute to the betterment of the echo, and not to
    policing it. I don't mind a little bit of suggestiveness, as I
    do have a sense of humor (especially from area amateur radio
    "fertilizer nets"), and would rather "drop hints" of rule
    violations, than to make an example of the violator in the echo.
    I would also PREFER constructive participation in the echo by
    ALL of its users.

    10. The first violation will be considered an accident...twice will be
    questionable, and the third time will result in a permanent feed
    cut without warning...with no appeal.

    11. If there are any questions or comments about these rules, please
    address them to me, Daryl Stout via NETMAIL ONLY at 1:19/33.
    Discussion of the echo rules in the echo is off topic.

    Daryl Stout, N5VLZ, Moderator


    --- GTMail 1.26
    * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS, Little Rock, Arkansas (1:19/33.0)