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Ärende: BBSLAW Echo Guidelines (rev. 5/1/01)
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                              BBSLAW Echo Rules
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    The BBSLAW Echo Rules will be posted once monthly, or as needed. The
    posted rules are subject to change without notice. Participants are
    encouraged to remain on topic, which is defined as subjects concerning
    legal issues related to free or subscription BBSs, the Internet, or
    electronic telecommunications in general. Primary topics of interest
    include, but are not limited to, the following:

        * Telecommunications Law - Domestic or International
        * Sysop Liability
        * User Privileges
        * Privacy Issues
        * Copyright Law

    ECHO DISCLAIMER:

    Echo participants are hereby notified that ALL postings in this echo
    are INFORMATIONAL ONLY and should not to be construed as legal advice.
    Participants are also advised that opinion often appears as fact and
    should therefore seek the advice of an attorney of their choosing
    before acting upon any information obtained from the BBSLAW echo.

  RULES:

  (1) All messages from the Moderator in my capacity as moderator
      will contain a Moderator signature or indicate that status with
      a 'From: Moderator' heading.

  (2) The subject of law often inspires heated dialogue and debate, but
      please refrain from anything that remotely resembles a personal
      attack upon another person's character.

  (3) The official language of Fidonet is English. I recognize that we
      do have a significant contingent of foreign 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.

  (4) Commercial advertising is prohibited. Informational postings of
      product or service availability may be allowed provided the
      product or service is related to BBS or telecommunication legal
      issues. This type of posting must be limited to one message and
      one posting.

  (5) Posting of multi-part documents takes up extra disk space and transfer
      time, and may not be of interest to all readers. It is preferred
      that such documents 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.

  (6) 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 shall not be construed as "notifications" for purposes
      of Rule 6. All participants must be capable of receiving crash
      netmail on their origin system. Check with your sysop if you are
      unsure of the availability. Sysops who do not provide an INBOUND
      NETMAIL service to their users participating in this echo may have
      BBSLAW restricted from their system.

  (7) (a) The first notification of a rules violation will assume the
          violator was unfamiliar with the rules. 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 for thirty (30) days. A
          repeat violation may result in the violator's origin system
          being denied access.

  (8) There are no restrictions in this echo on public key encrypted signature
      blocks.

  (9) 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.

 (10) There are no restrictions on signature blocks; however, in consideration
      of those systems that do not receive their feeds on a fixed fee or
      costsharing basis, please keep them to a minimum.

 (11) 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:  5/1/2001
Summary of changes:
    Removed references in (8) to BOFAQ.

Lawrence Garvin, lawrence@eforest.net
Moderator, BBSLAW


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