Stephen Hurd wrote in a message to Moderators:

 SH>   Re: DOORGAMES Echo Rules
 SH>   By: Moderators to All on Wed Nov 01 2006 03:05 am

 > # This echo may NOT be gated to any other form of distribution without

 >   the moderator's express written permission.  This is an echo in Fidonet

 >   and not meant for any other type of distribution.

(Any particular reason your editor writes everything double-spaced?)

 SH> So this means that if your BBS software is offering a news feed to
 SH> users, this echo must be explicitly removed?  Or do you mean to 
 SH> exclude distribution to non-end users only?

Non-end users only, such as the Russians who insist on gating echoes to
public NNTP servers.  Private NNTP servers, such as in Synchronet and
WINServer that require authorization are fine.


 SH> The way this one is written, it's not allowed to let users view the
 SH> messages in this echo at all unless they get them via FTN... and 
 SH> using an offline reader is Right Out.

You're the first person in I don't know how many years that has brought
this question up.  I will work on clarifying that in all of my echoes
tonight. Thanks for bringing this up to me.

I'll more than likely say something along the lines of
"non-authorized" gating, such as public NNTP or posting to the
web (a la fidonet.sensationcontent.com) directly.  QWK and private NNTP
file, although in the spirit of this rule, QWK was not considered (I've
never consider QWK to be a "gate" of sort, more of a transport
method for local users).

I'll work on it later tonight and post something in all my echoes later. 
I've been meaning to clarify the rules anyway and put all of my echoes on a
"standardized" ruleset.

Later,
Sean
DOORGAMES Moderator

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