Readers' Forum &
Member Chat Room
Terms of Use and Application

In General

The Backwoods Home Magazine Readers' Forum is free for use by web site visitors. All are welcome to read the posted messages. However, anyone wishing to respond or to post new messages register as explained below.

The forum is moderated to remove incidents of gratuitous filth, hate, bigotry amd uncivil behavior. Parties responsible for the offense will be warned, then banned if the behavior continues.

Participation

Participants are free to discuss any and all topics of interest to self-reliant people. We request everyone keep their comments within the bounds of civility and good taste.

Very Important! BEFORE you sign up for either feature, please read this short notice regarding email filters and screeners. It will open in a new browser window. Just close the window to return to this page.

Forum Registration

Registration takes less than a minute and requires you to select a Username and to provide a valid email address to which the Forum will mail your password. (You may elect to hide your email address from other people in the forum.) When you receive the password via email, return to the forum, click on "Login" and you will be able to log in to the Forum using the Username you selected and the password you received. Once logged in, you can change the password to something easier to remember by clicking on "profile" in the gray menu bar.

Please Note - Usernames and passwords are CasE SensAtiVe, which means capitalization is important. For example: If you chose the Username "PaulA" it must always be entered that way. "paulA, PAULA, Paula, etc., would not be acccepted.

You may also change your email address on your Profile page, but if you do, the Forum will mail you a new random password which you must use, again, to log in to the forum before you can post messages. You must keep your email address current as we will occasionally send notices and such to all members. If the email is returned as Undeliverable, we will assume you have abandoned the account and it will be deleted.

To register for the Forum, just click on "register" in the gray menu bar (or at the end of the "Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register." message) near the top of the main forum page. If you do not register, you will only be allowed to read the messages. Click here to enter the Readers' Forum.

Chat Room

The Chat Room is now open for use by any Forum Member. Use your Forum Username to log in.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:

A Java enabled web browser is required in order to use the Chat Room.

You understand that using the Chat Room is a privilege, not a right. Violation of any of these rules is grounds for revocation of privileges. We are the sole judge of whether a violation has been committed.

Gratuitous profanity, hate, bigotry, character assassination of other members and other such stupidity is not permitted. If in doubt, don't do it.

Business use of the Chat Room is not permitted. Period.

If it becomes necessary to ban you from the Chat Room, you grant us permission to contact your ISP to report you, if we, in our sole judgement, decide to do so. We do not want to ban anyone. Please observe the rules and everyone will be happy.