CMRL list Posting & Moderation Guidelines

August 25th, 2010

As a service to Child Maltreatment Research List (CMRL) members, the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) posts this message periodically to remind subscribers of list moderation guidelines and to provide subscription support.

If you need help or have questions about your CMRL list subscription, please e-mail the Archive at NDACAN@xxxxxxxxxxx. (Messages sent to lyris@xxxxxxxxxxx go to the list processing software, not to a person).

A common question is "How do I change my address on the CMRL list?"

Answer: You remove your old address (also called unsubscribing) and then rejoin with your new address (also called subscribing).

Here are the instructions for each task:

To leave the list, send the following line to LYRIS@xxxxxxxxxxx with nothing else in the message (no signatures).

unsubscribe child-maltreatment-research-l

To join the list, send the following line to LYRIS@xxxxxxxxxxx with nothing else in the message (no signatures). Replace FName LName with your first and last names but make sure to include the quotation marks:

subscribe child-maltreatment-research-l "FName LName"

Overview

The goal of the CMRL is to encourage scholarly discussion among researchers in the field of child abuse and neglect. Appropriate topics for discussion include all areas of child abuse and neglect research (e.g., epidemiology, etiology, prevention, consequences, intervention, and treatment) and the full range of relevant research issues (e.g., measurement, instrumentation, statistical analysis, ethics). The list is not open to discussions of program-related or clinical issues except as they relate to evaluation research.

Moderation and Posting Guidelines

The CMRL is a moderated e-mail list. When a member sends an e-mail to Child-Maltreatment-Research-L@xxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxx) 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.

Out-of-Office Auto-Reply Policy

If you activate out of office 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 out-of-office 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 and searching. 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.

Location of the CMRL Index:

http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/cmrlpostings/maillist.html

Support

If you have trouble with your Child-Maltreatment-Research-L subscription please write to NDACAN@xxxxxxxxxxx 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.

Online location of "Using E-lists at Cornell":

http://www2.cit.cornell.edu/computer/elist/lyris/user-index.html

Thank you,

Andrés Arroyo, Archiving Assistant

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)

Beebe Hall -FLDC, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853

607-255-7799 | fax 607-255-8562 | www.ndacan.cornell.edu