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Ärende: Rules of Echomail
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21 Dec 15 10:34, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 DD> How much of the content of netmail doe P4 cover?

 DD> Chapter and verse please...

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2.1.5  No Alteration of Routed Mail

You may not modify, other than as required for routing or other technical
purposes, any message, netmail or echomail, passing through the system from one
FidoNet node to another.  If you are offended by the content of a message, the
procedure described in section 2.1.7 must be used.

[...]

2.1.7  Not Routing Mail

You are not required to route traffic if you have not agreed to do so.  You are
not obligated to route traffic for all if you route it for any, unless you hold
a Network Coordinator or Hub Coordinator position.  Routing traffic through a
node not obligated to perform routing without the permission of that node may
be
annoying behavior.  This includes unsolicited echomail.

If you do not forward a message when you previously agreed to perform such
routing, the message must be returned to the sysop of the node at which it
entered FidoNet with an explanation of why it was not forwarded.  (It is not
necessary to return messages which are addressed to a node which is not in the
current nodelist.)  Intentionally stopping an in-transit message without
following this procedure constitutes annoying behavior.  In the case of a
failure to forward traffic due to a technical problem, it does not become
annoying unless it persists after being pointed out to the sysop.

[...]

4.2  Routing Inbound Mail

It is your responsibility as Network Coordinator to coordinate the receipt and
forwarding of host-routed inbound netmail for nodes in your network.  The best
way to accomplish this is left to your discretion.

If a node in your network is receiving large volumes of mail you can request
that the sysop contact the systems which are sending this mail and request that
they not host-route it.  If the problem persists, you can request your Regional
Coordinator to assign the node a number as an independent and drop the system
from your network.

Occasionally a node will make a "bombing run" (sending one message to a great
many nodes).  If a node in another network is making bombing runs on your nodes
and routing them through your inbound host, then you can complain to the
network
coordinator of the offending node.  (If the node is an indepen- dent, complain
to the regional coordinator.)  Bombing runs are considered to be annoying.

Another source of routing overload is echomail.  Echomail cannot be allowed to
degrade the ability of FidoNet to handle normal message traffic.  If a node in
your network is routing large volumes of echomail, you can ask the sysop to
either limit the amount of echomail or to stop routing echomail.

You are not required to forward encrypted, commercial, or illegal mail.
However,
you must follow the procedures described in section 2.1.7 if you do not forward
the mail.

[...]

9  Resolution of Disputes

9.1  General

The FidoNet judicial philosophy can be summed up in two rules:

     1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others.

     2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed.

In other words, there are no hard and fast rules of conduct, but reasonably
polite behavior is expected.  Also, in any dispute both sides are examined, and
action could be taken against either or both parties. ("Judge not, lest ye be
judged!")

The coordinator structure has the responsibility for defining "excessively
annoying".  Like a common definition of pornography ("I can't define it, but I
know it when I see it."), a hard and fast definition of acceptable FidoNet
behavior is not possible.  The guidelines in this policy are deliberately vague
to provide the freedom that the coordinator structure requires to respond to
the
needs of a growing and changing community.

The first step in any dispute between sysops is for the sysops to attempt to
communicate directly, at least by netmail, preferably by voice.  Any complaint
made that has skipped this most basic communication step will be rejected.

Filing a formal complaint is not an action which should be taken lightly.
Investigation and response to complaints requires time which coordinators would
prefer to spend doing more constructive activities.  Persons who persist in
filing trivial policy complaints may find themselves on the wrong side of an
excessively-annoying complaint.  Complaints must be accompanied with verifiable
evidence, generally copies of messages; a simple word-of-mouth complaint will
be
dismissed out of hand.

Failure to follow the procedures herein described (in particular, by skipping a
coordinator, or involving a coordinator not in the appeal chain) is in and of
itself annoying behavior.

[...]

9.9  Echomail

Echomail is an important and powerful force in FidoNet.  For the purposes of
Policy Disputes, echomail is simply a different flavor of netmail, and is
therefore covered by Policy.  By its nature, echomail places unique technical
and social demands on the net over and above those covered by this version of
Policy.  In recognition of this, an echomail policy which extends (and does not
contradict) general Policy, maintained by the Echomail Coordinators, and
ratified by a process similar to that of this document, is recognized by the
FidoNet Coordinators as a valid structure for dispute resolution on matters
pertaining to echomail.  At some future date the echomail policy document may
be
merged with this one.

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