POLICES AND RULES OF THE FISHING ECHOMAIL CONFERENCE:

POLICIES:

The Fishing echo has been started for your enjoyment and as a place to gather
communicate about the sport we love. The Fishing echo is a joint FIDO and GT
Network echo brought to you by the efforts of the Fishing echo moderators/
sponsors, the FIDO/GT gateway bridge operator, and the many system operators
who carry the Fishing echo on their Bulletin Board Systems. Please treat this
echo as such with pertinent information while being kind to each other.

The Fishing Conference is distributed internationally on both the FIDO and GT
Networks. Use the Fishing echo in compliance with all applicable laws, rules
and policies and in adherence to generally acceptable standards of the Fishing
echo, the FIDO and GT Networks, generally accepted behavior for computer/BBS
communications, and the community.

Fishing can be defined in many different ways to many different people. To
some, it may be a pastime; a hobby; a sport; a job; a way of life; a way to
feed millions of people; a way to generate billions of dollars of revenue.
There are literally millions of companies who rely on the fishing industry
for their bread and butter. There are also many different kinds of
organizations dedicated to A) Promote fishing; as well as B) Do anything
they can to stop people from fishing. Sometimes fishing can be an issue that
is very sensitive to some from the type of fishing they do, to the species
they like to fish for and to even the fishing club to which they belong.
This echo is a public forum which is read by thousands of people on every
continent in the world, please be careful and try not to offend anyone when
writing messages here. This is a small list of guidelines we should all go by
when using this echo.

DISCLAIMER: The Fishing echo is operated and made possible by volunteers.
The Fishing echo moderator(s), sponsor(s), gateway bridge provider of the
Fishing echo, nor the system operators who carry the Fishing echo guarantee
any level of service in connection with this operation. These persons
volunteer their time, equipment, and knowledge and reserve the right to
operate the gateway bridge, echomail conferences, and the computer systems
as they see fit. Any one or all of them may cease, limit or restrict
operations at anytime. Users of the Fishing echo agree to hold harmless the
echo moderators and sponsors, the gateway bridge operator, and the system
operators for the operation, failure of operation, ceasing, limiting, or
restricting operation, echo and computer system down-time, failure or
malfunction of tele-communication lines or other equipment, environmental
conditions, and or actions or messages of users of the Fishing echo. Users
of the echo use the it with full knowledge and agree to this. Users assume
all responsibility and accountability in connection with their use of this
conference.

RULES:

1: Treat the other folks on this echo with respect.

2: Illegal activities are strictly off topic and not permitted here.

3: The subject here is FISHING; please stay on topic. Any subject matter
   relating to fishing is acceptable subject to the other rules of the echo.

4: No Foul language of any type will be tolerated. This is a ZERO tolerance
   policy. The moderator/sponsor will determine what is foul language.

5: Commercial advertising is considered off topic. and therefore not
   permitted in the fishing echo. However, individual users may announce
   personal fishing related equipment that they would like to sell, trade
   or give away, and users may post messages about organizations that deal
   in fishing related products and services.

6: Do not post high-bit ASCII, ANSI or other graphics formats in this echo.

7: Please leave the moderating and sponsoring of this echo to the
   moderators/sponsors. Also, don't quote any messages that are off topic or
   of bad taste, you are just as bad as the originator for doing so.

   Vilolators of the policies and rules of the Fishing echo are subject
   to any one or all the following:
   (a) A moderator or sponsor will warn ask the user to cease and correct
       the violation.
   (b) The System Operator of the user's BBS will be notified and asked
       to correct the violation.
   (c) Denial of access to the Fishing echo by either the modertor(s) or
       sponsor(s) or system operator(s).
   (d) Report to the appropriate authorities.


 Richard W. Biehl                     Frederick A. Osborne
 Moderator, FIDO Fishing Conference   Sponsor, GT Fishing Echomail Conference
 Co-Sponsor, GT Fishing Conference    Co-Moderator, FIDO Fishing Conference
 System Operator, No Ratio BBS        System Operator, Computer Connection
 773-776-2382                         972-680-2461
 FIDO Address: 1:115/50               GT NET/NODE: 004/056
 FIDO Address: 1:115/775