Subj : TCPIP Echo Guidelines (rev. 5/1/01)
To   : All
From : Moderator
Date : Tue Jul 01 2003 04:48 am

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							  G U I D E L I N E S

  (1) All messages from me in my capacity as moderator will contain my
	  "Moderator" signature with date and time of creation or indicate
	  that status with a 'From: Moderator' heading.

  (2) Any messages pertaining to the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, it's design,
	  uses, history, development, etc. are on topic.

  (3) We are all professionals, and as such, should behave accordingly.
	  Although I encourage debate on appropriate subjects, please refrain
	  from anything that remotely resembles a personal attack upon another
	  person's character. Stick to the facts/opinions.

  (4) The official language of Fidonet is English. I recognize that we
	  do have a significant contingent of foreign participants; however
	  the non-English speaking participants should also recognize that
	  non-English posts are quite likely to result in a reduced response
	  rate, therefore the use of English is encouraged.

  (5) Commercial advertising is prohibited, although informational postings
	  of product or service availability may be allowed, provided that the
	  announcement does not appear to result in commercial gain of the poster
	  or his/her associates, and the product or service is related to the
	  Unix Operating System. These type of postings must be limited to
	  one message and one posting.

  (6) Posting of multi-part listings take up extra disk space and transfer
	  time, and may not be of interest to all readers. It is preferred that
	  'lists' be offered as a text file for File Request. If a user believes
	  that the echo would benefit from the posting of the list, the list
	  should be netmailed to the moderator for approval prior to posting.

  (7) All notifications of rules violations and other rules discussions will
	  take place via netmail. Rules violations will be crash netmailed to the
	  participant and host sysop. Requests for cooperation posted in the echo
	  are not to be construed as "notifications" for purposes of Rule 8. All
	  participants must be capable of receiving crash netmail on the BBS that
	  they post from. Check with your sysop, if you are unsure of the availa-
	  bility. Sysops who do not provide an -inbound- netmail service to their
	  users, will have this echo restricted from their system.

  (8) (a) The first notification of a rules violation will assume the
		  violator was unfamiliar with the rules, although -all- participants
		  are responsible for knowing and understanding the rules. As such,
		  the first notification is intended to be -informational- only.
	  (b) The second notification of violation of the -same- rule will be
		  considered a warning. Only one warning will be issued per specific
		  violation.
	  (c) A third violation will result in the participant's access and/or
		  sysop's feed being restricted.

  (9) There are no restrictions in this echo on public key encrypted signature
      blocks.

 (10) There are no restrictions on 8-bit characters. This is an International
	  Echo, and as such has an obligation to support the necessary use of
	  international character sets. However, abuse of the International
	  Character Set for artistic purposes is not appropriate.

 (11) There are no restrictions on signature blocks; however, in consideration
	  of those systems that do not receive their feeds on a fixed fee or
	  costsharing basis, please keep them to a minimum.

 (12) Real names are required. If it is not contained within the header of
	  the message, then it should be included as a signature line.
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Last Revision:  5/1/2001
Summary of changes:
    Removed references in (9) to BOFAQ.

Lawrence Garvin, lawrence@eforest.net
Moderator, International Fidonet TCPIP Conference

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