PVT.CRAZY.ENGLISH.RULES
Moderstein
Many thanks to
>the Honoured CoModerator (Ilia Batai, 2:5020/1004.18) for the drastic
>amendments to the draft version.
Special thanks to
Dmitri Novoselov 2:5030/448.28
for translating a good half of the present rules.
1. Topics of discussion
1.1. The conference Pvt.Crazy.English.Talks is designed to discuss various
strange or just crazy ideas that ever come to one's mind, as well as life
situations _in English_. Mild spelling and stylistic faults are allowed,
however any sharp or impolite pointing to the made linguistic mistakes
and drawbacks in self-expression is strongly forbidden to the conference
participants.
1.2. December 15, 1998 is considered the conferences's birthday!
2. Behaviour
2.1. You are recommended to publish rather interesting messages. Taking into
consideration the fact that the majority of the conference subscribers are not
native speakers and are just practicing their English, it is evident that we
would rather you post messages with interesting contents, i.e, the description
of your original ideas and life situations, to put it briefly, those messages
which allow further keen discussions.
We recommend using the Netmail for strongly personal correspondence.
2.2. _Any_ rude discussions in the conference are considered to be indecent
behaviour. Please bear in mind that even having replaced any swear words with
symbols like #@#@$$%$$%%# you have not taken off responsibility for insulting a
participant or the moderators.
2.3. The pointsessions of the conference participants are called "crazykovkas"
and are held rather irregularly. Russian is the official language for
crazykovkas.
Any non-English-speaking(writing) guests are highly welcomed to the sessions.
The following actions are forbidden in the conference:
2.4. Discussion of the conference itself or any relative
technical/administrative issues. For these ends you can address the moderators
by Netmail.
2.5. Use of the conference for any commercial purpose.
2.6. Use of aliases without the inclusion of the real name at the beginning of
the letter.
2.7. Publication of messages containing any insulting or rude phrases. Any
sharp corrections of _anyone's_ mistakes or any arrogant attitude towards the
participants which is based on your own perfect knowledge of the English
language. We are not at school, you are not the teacher. If you consider a
message to be insulting for you personally and you do not feel like ignoring
it, the best way is to address the offender by Netmail or write a Netmail
message to the moderator.
2.8. Publications of any personal correspondence without the author's
permission.
2.9. Publications of messages in Russian. Only the moderator and the
comoderator are allowed to post messages in Russian for administrative or any
other purposes.
2.10. Discussion _in the conference_ of the moderator's and the comoderator's
actions/decisions. There are practically two moderators in the conference, in
case of incorrect behaviour of one of them you may address the other.
3. Technical points
3.1. We speak English here. In fact, this is the major purpose of this echo:
we speak Russian in real life and practice our English here. The participants
are allowed to to use Russian words or any other (short) non-English insertions
especially if they do not seem to have an exact E. equivalent in the given
context. In case you don't understand the meaning of an English phrase you can
always ask the author to clarify the meaning, interpret it or simply give the
Russian translation. If you still don't get it feel free to ask the Moderators,
they will try to interpret the phrase according to their own linguistic
competence.
3.2. While writing a message, stick to the technical requirements of the
Fidonet. It is not recommended to post messages larger than 8-10 Kb; divide the
message into several ones instead. The Origin line should not contain more
than 79 symbols. The contents of PATH and SEEN+BY lines should be updated and
valid. For Russian symbols you should use the "alternative" encoding and
substitute the Russian letter "H" with the similar English letter "H".
3.3. Try to specify the actual subject of a message in the Subject field.
This makes browsing through the message list and searching easier. You may
find this useful yourself one day!
3.4. Do not overuse long signatures and multiline Team lists, etc.
Please do not overquote either. You know yourselves that this overloads the net
transitions and annoys the participants.
4. Distribution
4.1. This echoconference may be distributed via the Fidonet in the telephone
zone +7. Advancement to other networks is encouraged but is only possible
by the approbation of the conference's moderators and on condition of not
violating the respective rules and Fidonet documents. You may participate in
this echoconference only if you have read and agreed with its rules and the
Fidonet documents.
4.2. Those reading the conference through Internet newsgroups and unable to
post
messages in the conference for technical reasons may send their messages to the
Moderators (see their e-mail addresses below) by e-mail.
5. Moderating and administrative issues
The documents, concerning the administrative issues in this conference, are the
current rules and the effective Fidonet documents (policy 4.07, echopol1).
Administrative problems are resolved by the moderators. If you would like to
contest the decision please address the echo-coordinator.
In case of violating the current rules the moderator/comoderator makes a
warning or assumes an administrative measure.
Administrative measures in this conference are:
1) warning;
2) disconnection of the participant on the 4D-address basis.
Thanks for reading up to the end :) Last edited: September 9, 2000
Diana, Moderator of Pvt.Crazy.English.Talks
FidoNet: 2:5020/600.77
E-mail: craz...@mail.ru
Ilia Batai, Honoured CoModerator of Pvt.Crazy.English.Talks
FidoNet: 2:5020/???.??
E-mail: ba...@mail.ru
The Moderstein of Pvt.Crazy.English.Talks
FidoNet: 2:5030/448.28
E-mail: n...@mail.spbnit.ru