The FIdonet ARTWARE Echo
Rules and Guidelines
Modified September 15, 2014

This conference is moderated by Dallas Hinton of Fidonet 1:153/715.

Conference information:

ARTWARE is a product support echo open to all for the discussion, chat, assistance, etc. of ARTWARE products. Open to all authors, users, distributors, support sites and everyone who uses shareware.

Posting a message in this echo will be understood by the Moderator to be
a declaration of your intent to abide by these and any other rules that
may, of necessity, be formulated. *Post in English Only Please.* OTher languages may be used if a translation to ENglish is available within
the same message, to the best of your abilities. The flip side of this
is that flaming somebody whose primary language is not English for
improper use of the language is unacceptable.

We expect to have little to do here, as most who participate in this
echo should be familiar with standard rules of echomail etiquette. For
those who are new here, please make note of them as they apply to this
echo, as listed below.

1. The topics of this conference should be related to TimEd, NetMgr,
WIMM, JAMINFO and related Software, including distributors, authors
and users alike. This includes third party authors and their
products.

2. Avoid excessive quoting. Try to quote enough of the message so that
the person you are responding to understands the reply and can
relate it to what was being discussed.

3. Users are requested to please consider both the QUALITY and QUANTITY
of what they post, keeping in mind the costs incurred for moving the
mail. SOme users of this echo may still by necessity need to dial
long distance or are charged according to the bandwidth they
consume. Please consider them, and the costs they incur to
participate in FIdonet.

4. MOderation issues will only be handled via FIdonet netmail. IF
posts emanating from your system appear in this echomail conference
then you are assumed to be able to receive and respond to FIdonet
netmail.

If you feel that someone is out of line, please make the
Moderator(s) aware of the situation through Netmail, and allow them
to follow through.

5. Use of handles and or aliases is not allowed. Those people who are
logged on to bbs's using an alias should post their real names
prominently in the body of each message they post. All messages
posted here should show the actual Fidonet address of the
originating system or the system which provides an approved gateway.
SEe below for echo policy regarding gateways to other networks.

6. There shall be no bashing of hardware, hardware manufacturers,
software programs, software authors or any other individuals. If you
have a problem with a program, company or piece of equipment and want
to discuss it in an effort to get some help, fine, but let's not tear
something down unless you can offer constructive suggestions for
building it back up. There will not be any widget wars.*

7. NO gating outside FIdonet permitted except where approved by the
moderator and the participants of the echo. IF a gate to another
network is approved the provider of that gateway is responsible for
all traffic entering the echo. Spam and other undesirable traffic
entering via such a gateway will be grounds for an immediate request
for the gateway to be closed. failure to respond to this request in
a timely manner will be considered excessively annoying, and will
generate a feed cut.

This is a living document and may change if the moderator(s) sees the
need to revise it further.

MODERATOR:
Dallas Hinton 1:153/715
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Posting rules and guidelines

Last modified: September 15, 2014

This echomail conference is one of the oldest in Fidonet. It is
basically a "catch all" for topics not covered in other echomail
conferences. since there are few echoes specifically for discussion of
serial communications devices such as modems this is the appropriate
place to discuss such topics.

WHen an echomail conference is widely available (carried on various
backbone systems) please post there for best response. OTherwise, feel
free to post here.

All posts in this echo must be germane to computer communications
techniques. Discussion of hardware and software is permitted, although emphasis is on the hardware. All other topics should be taken elsewhere.
When the topic drifts, take it to private mail, or an appropriate
conference.

Other than that, these are the only actual rules I expect to promulgate
for this echomail conference.

First and foremost, it is expected that all systems enabling posts in
this echomail conference are properly configured to show the true
Fidonet address of origination. If not, the moderator will ask that the problem be repaired before allowing posts from your system to the comm
echo. Along with this, providing a gateway to/from this echomail
conference from Fidonet to other networks is strictly prohibited. IF you
wish to provide such a gateway ask permission in the echo. If
permission is then granted after a poll of interested users is taken and
the results of said poll in favor then the gateway must work in both directions, and the valid address of the gate provider shown.

Multiple line signatures are strongly discouraged. Use of real names
strongly encouraged. Keep it clean, keep it polite.

All communication regarding moderation of this echomail conference will
take place via Fidonet netmail. Not internet email, not smoke signals
or telepathy. IF you post in this echo, or permit users of your system
to do so then it is assumed that you have the capability to read and
answer netmail. It is unreasonable to expect moderators to have to
hunt down an email address which may not be available, whereas your
system's address should be displayed on posts originating from your
system. The only moderation issues which will be handled in the open
echo are those in which the moderator seeks guidance and input from its
users.

If you're new to the world of serial communications and the terminology
used to discuss it you might wish to avail yourself of the Comm echo
primer written by Gord Hannah, the previous moderator. It can be
acquired from any Fidonet system carrying the ep-fdn ep-ascii file echo,
or from the headquarters of the International Filegate project. TO
acquire it point your web browser to

http://www.filegate.net/epub/ep-ascii/comprimr.zip

Questions, comments and suggestions should be sent by netmail to this address.

MODERATOR:
Dallas Hinton 1:153/715
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