i guess i should post the echo rules that were posted here last... i'm still not sure about the NOTE at the top of them, though...

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NOTE: This echo will be shutting down and removed from the backbone
some time in the next weeks or months. Please redirect all
traffic to the HAM echo.


Conference rules for the EMERGCOM echo: rev. 18 Aug 18
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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EMERGCOM Moderator


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