Child-Maltreatment-Research-L (CMR-L) E-mail List Serve > Moderation and Posting Guidelines

Moderation and Posting Guidelines

The CMRL is a moderated e-mail list. When a member sends an e-mail to Child-Maltreatment-Research-L@cornell.edu for distribution to members, an Archive staff moderator reviews it and has the option to accept or discard it.

 

In general the following types of messages are discarded:

1) commands intended for the list processing software (lyris@cornell.edu) rather than the list

2) messages concerning subscriptions to the list

3) messages that are intended for an individual subscriber and are not of interest, or do not pertain to, the whole list

4) messages that are not related to child maltreatment research

5) overly general requests for information and assistance

6) inflammatory or unprofessional messages

7) requests for contacts from people seeking a job; however, the list does accept employment postings

8) automatic replies

9) messages with attachments

 

Posting Policy

Only CMRL subscribers may post to the CMRL. The list software attempts to match the address in the "From" field of a message against the register of subscribed addresses. The list software rejects messages from non-subscribed addresses. This filter protects list members from spam. CMRL subscribers can subscribe under as many of their e-mail addresses as desired if they want to post from different accounts. Of course, subscribing under multiple e-mail addresses means that you receive CMRL postings at each of those addresses.

Subject Line

As a courtesy to other subscribers, always fill in the Subject line when you post a message to the CMRL.

Attachments Policy

Subscribers should not use attachments in their messages. Attachments present a virus risk to other list members, can be extremely inconvenient for members with slower Internet connections, and burden list processing server resources. In the majority of cases, messages with attachments will be discarded by the CMRL Moderator. Users wishing to share non-text content (e.g. PDF files) should provide a link or offer files to individuals on request independent of the list.

 

Default Reply Setting

This list is set up so that replies are sent to the entire list, not the author of the original message. Therefore, if you click "Reply" to a message from the list, your message will be submitted to the CMRL Moderator for posting. It will not go to the author of the original posting.

 

Auto-Reply Policy

If you activate auto-reply in your e-mail client, please unsubscribe from the list while you are away and re-subscribe when you return. If a list member configures their e-mail program to send an automatic reply about being away from the office, that message goes to authors of CMRL postings. In addition, that auto-reply goes to the Archive staff list moderator for every instance a post gets distributed to the list membership. With respect to mailing lists, e-mail accounts configured for auto-reply become a source of network congestion and risk automatic deletion based on software settings beyond the control of Archive staff.

 

Past CMRL Postings

All past postings to the CMRL list are available for browsing. This index contains posts to the CMRL since 1996 and is intended to serve as a resource for individuals looking for information about child maltreatment research. It is important to point out, however, that this index is open to all users of the Web, not just to subscribers of the CMRL. NDACAN reminds CMRL users that their posts to the list are not private and may circulate beyond the community of CMRL subscribers.

Support
If you have trouble with your Child-Maltreatment-Research-L subscription please write to NDACAN@cornell.edu for assistance. In addition, Cornell University publishes a guide called Using E-lists at Cornell which contains general information about e-lists as well as instructions for advanced subscription settings.