[Air-l] Updated list management policy

[Matthew Allen]

Dear all

The AoIR Executive has recently endorsed the following policy for
management of the air-l list.

Thanks to you all for your continued involvement and happy posting :)

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AoIR air-l List Policy

The air-l mailing list is maintained by the Association of Internet
Researchers (AoIR) and available to scholars and other interested people
in this field, whether or not they are members of AoIR. This email list
has well over 1000 subscribers and provides an excellent environment in
which to share information, discuss key research concerns and network
with those sharing similar research and scholarly interests.


TECHNICAL INFORMATION

To subscribe or manage your existing subscription, as well as to view
archives, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

If already subscribed, to send email to the entire list, send it to
air-l at listserv.aoir.org.

A subscription management help file is available by emailing
air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org. Type 'help' (no quotation marks) in
the
subject line or body of the message.

To contact the list manager, send a message containing your question to
air-l-owner at listserv.aoir.org.

The size limit for air-l posts is 10 KB.  Therefore, please do not send
attachments to the list, try not to include entire digests or several
lengthy earlier posts in your messages, and if possible, post in plain
text rather than HTML.  Messages larger than 10 KB are held for the list
manager's approval and will be rejected with the request that they be
edited or reformatted and re-sent.


RULES

AIR-L is an email list owned and operated by the Association of Internet
Researchers and is managed for the Association by the AoIR Executive
Committee. The Association reserves the right to remove subscribers
and/or refuse subscription at any time without without warning or
explanation.

The Association would very much prefer not to exercise this right and
will not need to if subscribers comply with the list rules. In
subscribing to air-l and remaining subscribed to air-l, you are agreeing
to adhere to these rules:  
 
Diverse opinions are welcome.  The readership of air-l includes people
from a wide variety of professional, disciplinary, methodological, and
national traditions. List participants are expected to respect these
differences. We ask that you maintain a tone of civility and use good
judgment in your posts: disagreements are to be expected, but blatant
rudeness,
Personal attacks, lack of respect, and monopolization of air-l to
further one's
one agenda are not expected nor will they be tolerated.

Anonymous subscriptions and posts are not allowed.  In order to help
maintain the list as a valuable resource for everyone, you must identify
yourself by your real full name when you subscribe and when you post to
air-l, and you should be prepared to verify your identity upon the
executive committee's request, including by providing a c.v. or resume.
This will normally occur upon subscription.
  
You must reply to private email privately, and you may not forward
personal email to air-l without the author's permission.


ETIQUETTE

Keep in mind that anything you send to air-l automatically goes to all
subscribers - please keep posts on-topic for the list. Also remember
when posting to the list that air-l is a public forum and that your
words will be available to everyone subscribed to the list and placed in
a public archive. Messages sent via email can easily be reproduced and
circulated beyond their originally intended audience, and neither the
list manager, the association's officers, nor the server1s host are
responsible for consequences arising from list messages being
re-distributed.


DISCLAIMER

Unless otherwise indicated, opinions expressed in messages on air-l are
those of the authors and do not necessarily represent official AoIR
policy. AoIR and its members bear no responsibility for the content of
messages
posted to air-l. This is an unmoderated list.
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Dr Matthew Allen
Associate Professor in Internet Studies 
President Association of Internet Researchers
Faculty of Media Society and Culture
Curtin University of Technology
CRICOS Provider Code 00301J
http://smi.curtin.edu.au/NetStudies/allen.htm
+61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 92663166 (f)