1.  Thou shalt love thy BBS
   with all thy heart and all
   thy bytes.

2.  Love thy hacker as thyself

3.  Thou shalt not POST IN ALL
   CAPS.

4.  Honor thy Sysop and Co-sysop.

5.  Thou shalt not covet thy
   neighbor's password.

6.  Thou shalt delete thy own mail.

7.  Thou shalt keep thy foul
   language to thyself.

8.  Thou shalt not attempt to crash
   thy BBS, for thou shalt be cast
   out from the sanctuary of thy
   hobby and must repent by doing
   40 days and 40 nights of
   penance on voice-only systems.

9.  Thou shalt not occupy thy BBS
   with thine silly arguments,
   for verily I say unto thee that
   thou shall maketh an electronic
   fool of thyself.

10.  Thou shalt not violate applic-
   able state/federal laws that
   doth affect BBS communications,
   or thy will face the rath of
   thy judicial system.

11. Thou shalt download at 1200 baud or faster so as not to tie up
   the phone lines unnecessarily...

12. Thou shalt upload as thou downloadest...