The ECMI bulletin board is being provided by ECMI as a free service to our clients and visitors. It is meant to provide professionals in energy related industries with a convenient and friendly forum in which to exchange information about their businesses and to discuss issues regarding the industry in a cordial and respectful manner. Users must agree to abide by the rules regulations and guidelines as set forth below.

• This bulletin board and the entire ECMI website is a free service to users supported by our company. Unauthorized use of the bulletin board for the promotion and marketing of products and services is strictly prohibited, and ECMI will vigorously discourage any attempts to use it as a medium to disseminate free advertising messages.
• Any posts/messages which ECMI feels represent attempts to use the bulletin board for free and unauthorized advertising will be deleted -- including those which contain links to websites promoting commercial products and services. Very often users of the bulletin board will post messages seeking specific products and services. Those vendors who can fulfill these requests are urged to reply via direct private e-mails to the person who posted the message rather than posting a reply on the public bulletin board.
• This bulletin board is designed to provide professionals with a forum to discuss issues and topics directly relating to the energy related industry. All threads and messages should contain information regarding the this industry. Messages about matters not related to energy specific industries are vigorously discouraged and may be deleted.
• ECMI intends to maintain a positive and professional climate on this bulletin board. Users should be careful to make sure that their messages are courteous at all times, and that any criticism of products, companies or individual be framed in a constructive context designed to encourage civil discourse.
• Messages which are slanderous, defamatory, profane, confrontational, unnecessarily contentious, mean-spirited, or are intended to ridicule, embarrass or humiliate are prohibited.
• ECMI reserves the right to interpret and enforce these rules, to delete messages which in its opinion violate the letter or spirit of these rules, and to prohibit the use of the bulletin board by violators.

When posting a message to this bulletin board, use only words and tone which you would use speaking to a friend face to face and which you know will heard by hundreds, or even thousands of others. If your message doesn't meet these guidelines, it doesn't belong on this bulletin board.

All messages posted on this bulletin board become the copyrighted property ECMI and our affiliates, and may be republished in whole or in part in other print and electronic information products we may offer.