Guidelines for Contributors

To contribute to the COBOL Style Forum, send me your thoughts by email to mck9@swbell.net, in the form of a text file. I may also be able to use an HTML file, with image files as attachments.

Also, I require your true email address (not an anti-spam version). I may wish to correspond with you before incorporating your contribution.

My Rights

At my sole discretion, I reserve the right to:

Quote you verbatim, with an appropriate attribution, unless you request otherwise.

Edit your text for brevity, or to correct misspellings, faulty grammar, and the like.

Paraphrase or summarize your contribution, especially if more than one contributor makes similar points.

Publish your name, email address, and/or a link to one of your pages, if known to me, unless you request otherwise.

Provide a devastating rebuttal to everything you say.

Ignore you completely. Hey, this is my ego trip, not yours.

Your Rights

As a contributor, you can expect the following:

As noted above, I will honor a request to withhold information about your identity, or to withhold all or part of your text, as you may specify.

I will not knowingly misrepresent your position, or if I do, I will make a correction when asked.

You may withdraw or modify your contribution at any time.

Depending on the volume of contributions and on other demands on my time, there may be a reasonable delay in my response to any request. Maybe even an unreasonable delay.

Disclaimers

Though I will not knowingly publish inaccurate information, I cannot verify all the assertions of contributors, nor will I try to.

Notwithstanding any of the above, this document is intended only as a declaration of intent. No part of this document is to be construed as imposing any legally enforceable obligation or liability on me, beyond those to which I would otherwise be subject.

Sorry, but I have to put verbiage like this in here.

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