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- Bulletin RULES - Policies of this Board
- [SysOp - customize this to fit your operation]
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- OPERATIONS
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- 1 phone line
- Operates 24 hours a day
- 60 min per session, 60 min per day
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- CONFLICT OF INTEREST. This board and its sysop have no ties
- to any commercial product, and derive no financial benefit
- from any recommendations made.
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- PROPRIETARY Programs. This board supports only open architecture,
- non-proprietary programs, which require no licensing fees of
- shareware authors who wish to develop better versions. No
- proprietary programs will be supported or aided by this BBS,
- which is dedicated to the public domain and public service.
- This policy applies across the board to graphics, the format of
- stored files, file transfer protocols, as well as to the BBS
- software.
- ZIP files are preferred over "ARC" files, which is a
- proprietary format owned and licensed by SEA.
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- NEW CALLERS. Immediate, full, free access on first call. No
- verification.
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- QUESTIONNAIRES. Information collected from users is not shared
- with others nor sold, and is for the private use of the
- sysop.
-
- ALIASES. Okay to use. Only ask that you be willing to reveal to
- sysop who you really are. You must, however, must use at most
- 1 id on this system. Do not register under more than 1 name.
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- SEXUAL MATERIALS. Sexually oriented uploads are/are not welcome.
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- GAMES. Welcome. But only games that can be freely distributed please.
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- DOWNLOADING. Free to download as much and as often as you like.
- Nothing asked in return, no penalties for heavy downloading.
- No ratios to maintain.
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- UPLOAD FORMAT. This board runs like a free market, in which people
- are free to upload files in whatever format they prefer, as long
- as the files are compressed. The preferred format is ZIP, but
- ARC, ZOO, PAK and others are acceptable.
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- UPLOAD MODIFICATION. This board does not modify uploads. Headers
- advertising this board are not added to libraried files, and
- no files are added to the libraries. The file uploaded may be
- reformatted to reduce size, but nothing is changed inside.
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- GETTING MORE TIME. You get 10 extra minutes between midnight and 6am,
- uploads should be rewarded with extra time, or make a donation.
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- MAILING SOFTWARE. Sysop does not mail software. Too busy.
- Software clubs like CPCUG do a much better job than I would.
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- PRIVACY OF MESSAGES. Sysop reserves right to read all mail. Private
- messages will be otherwise respected.
-
- BREAKING COPY PROTECTION. Directions on how to break (unprotects)
- are/are not welcome.
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- COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE EXCHANGE (Piracy). Do not upload or exchange
- commercial software. Authors deserve compensation. If they insist
- on payment before you can try their software, so be it.