Terms of Service
The SmallTime BBS asks all users to consider themselves a guest in the home of the SysOp (System Operator) and to act accordingly. If you make a nuisance of yourself, you will likely be removed from the premises just as you would if you were there in-person.
EchoMail (DOVE-Net and FidoNet) message areas have one additional note:
As these message areas are communal and run by outside parties, moderation is at least partially in the hands of others; if the SysOp is asked to deal with a "problem user," then actions will be taken in accordance to the agreement the SysOp made when joining these services.
Following is relevant information on the EchoMail agreements, for your perusal. Please be aware of this information when using DOVE-Net EchoMail message areas. Failure to read this does not absolve you of bad behavior penalties.
DOVE-Net
DOVE-Net has mostly been a self-moderated network. This means that the sysops of DOVE-Net have decided when a specific message, user, or thread is deemed inappropriate. However, today, most of the users of DOVE-Net are also the sysops of DOVE-Net. And when there are too many "kings", you can have chaos.
The ultimate "king" of DOVE-Net is me, Digital Man (Rob Swindell). I don't claim this title because I want to, but rather because I have to: someone has to be "king" or NC (Network Coordinator), or whatever-you-want-to-call-it.
DOVE-Net has survived and even at times thrived for over a thirty years without a specific set of "rules", but recent user activities have convinced me that I need to "lay down the law". So here we go:
The following actions are not allowed:
- Excessive personal attacks
- Excessive use of profanity
- Excessive off-topic messages
- Excessive advertisements
- Excessive use of capital letters
- Excessive use of non-English text
- Encoded, encrypted, or otherwise indecipherable messages
- Fraudulent messages
- Impersonating someone you are not
From DOVE-Net documentation
FidoNet
This section will be included if/when FidoNet is implemented on the board.