21st May 1996
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           The rules of the International FIDONET OS2DOS echo .
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   This conference is for the discussion of running DOS and Windows
   programs under the OS/2 operating system, and for any other issues
   relating to OS/2 Virtual DOS Machines.
   This is not a commercial conference.  It is not supported by any
   organisation or corporation that promotes programs that operate under
   Microsoft or PC DOS or the OS/2 operating system.
   When posting to this conference, please use common sense.
   Sysops and users have to pay out of their own pockets for the messages
   transported all around the world in the OS2DOS echo.  Please do not
   overquote.  Please do not post long text files (make them available for
   File Request instead, and post a note giving the filename and FIDONET
   address).  Please do not post advertising.
   Many questions are covered by the OS2DOS Frequently Given Answers list,
   which should be available on any good site that carries the OS2DOS
   echo, and is available for FREQ as FGA-OS2D.ZIP from 2:440/4.0.
   Check the FGA to see that you are not wasting everyone's time and
   telephone bill before posting a question.  Similarly, if you see a
   question that is covered by the FGA, please respond by pointing the
   questioner in the direction of the FGA rather than repeating the
   answer.
   Please do not post nor respond to "test" messages (except via netmail).
   The sole right to respond to test messages via echomail is reserved, by
   the moderator, to the moderator ALONE.
   Especially please do not use long signatures.  The origin address
   appended to every message that you post is more than adequate as a
   return address for netmail (everyone on FIDONET should have access to
   netmail).  Do not repeat your FIDONET address in your signature, or
   addresses in non-FIDONET networks.
   For similar reasons please don't post PGP "signed" messages.
   Do not stray off-topic.  I don't want to have to keep redirecting
   people all over the place, so please help me.  If you are replying to a
   message that more properly belongs in another echo, please prefix your
   reply with a note to that effect, so that your respondent can follow
   you to the correct echo.  Note that there are separate echoes for OS/2
   Hardware, OS/2 Video, OS/2 Programming et al..
   If there isn't an echo covering your thread, or if you find yourself
   discussing subjects that really do not interest the rest of the world
   (this is an *international* echo remember), then please take your
   conversation to NETMAIL.
   Please refrain from offensive postings.  Profanity is not allowed.
   Please post under your real name.  No "handles" or aliases are allowed.
   We want to know to whom we are talking.
   Please refrain from product or vendor bashing.  I know that this is
   tempting for OS/2 users, given the OSWars that abound currently.
   However, unless your message contains substantiated facts, then
   comments on the quality of vendors or their products are off-topic.
   There *are* echoes for O/S comparisons.  Post your OSWars there.
   The above is not an exhaustive list of the rules of the echo.  I will
   moderate according to circumstances, and may vary the rules as I see
   fit.  If you have a problem with moderation, please use NETMAIL to talk
   to me.
   My address is JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD at 2:440/4.
   Note that there are time delays in an international echo.
   Lastly, remember that this echo is nothing without your input, and that
   moderation is difficult without your co-operation.  Don't let all the
   restrictions put you off joining in if you have something to say.  (-:
 / JdeBP -- Moderator, International FIDONET (and RBBS) OS2DOS echo .
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