Htf Chat Rules

Due to the high volume of participants, we find it necessary to enforce guidelines that will make our chat session an orderly one, where everyone will have the opportunity to have a turn in participating.

1. There will be a moderator of this live chat. That person will announce himself or herself at the start of the chat session.

2. The guest speaker will be introduced, followed by possible short remarks from that guest speaker. Afterwards, the moderator will announce that the chat session has begun.

3. Once the session begins, participants are asked to type the word "YO" (without parentheses) to indicate they wish to ask a question. The moderator will keep track of the exact order that people "YO" in, and will call out names in that order. Note: The order that the moderator has may not be the order that you have listed. He will call on you in the order in which he gets them on his end.

4. When your name is announced by the moderator, you may ask your question. Please let the group know when you are done by typing "end", so that we may move on to the next participant.

5. If you have already had the chance to ask a question do not "YO" back in again until everyone has had a chance to ask a question. When everyone has had a chance to ask a question then you can ask a question again.

6. Please refrain from being disruptive to other people, and avoid typing in questions before your turn is announced.

7. Do not send any private messages to the guest during these chats. Doing so will get you kicked out of the chat.

8. If you are using the web side java chat you may get a pop up window saying the security of the certificate may not be valid. Ignore this. Then if you have never used this chat before it will install the java script for you to use this chat which may take a few minutes.

**9. As in the forum we want people to know who you are. We don't want bogus usernames being used and if used will be banned from the rest of the chat.

Once in the chat you may change your nickname to your username on the forum by typing in a name in the Change Nick To box in the lower right hand corner.

Thanks,
Ron Epstein
Parker Clack
Adam Gregorich