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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) All discussions relating to the installation, operation, and support
      of the Linux Operating System or applications of a Linux-specific
      port should be directed to the LINUX echo (available on the Zone One
      Backbone). Discussions pertaining to the comparision of Linux with
      various flavors of Unix are permitted, provided the discussion does
      not degenerate in to a 'How do I do this?' situation.
  (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 European 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 
ignature
|     blocks. However, in accordance with Backbone Operating FAQ (BOFAQ),
|     Question #8, the Backbone will not transfer -encrypted- messages, and 
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|     such, are not allowed in this echo. Until stated otherwise by the
|     Backbone, PGP digital signature blocks with cleartext messages, do 
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|     constitute encrypted traffic.
 (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 
onsideration
|     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: 3/31/1996
Summary of changes:
    Changed Paragraph 9 from "encrypted signature blocks" to "PGP digital
        signature blocks"
    Changed Paragraph 11 for minor grammatical structure errors.
Lawrence Garvin, lawrence@eforest.houston.tx.us
Moderator, International Fidonet Unix Conference
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