List Posting & Moderation Guidelines: CMRL

[Andres Arroyo <aa17@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

February 20, 2008

As a service to Child Maltreatment Research List (CMRL) members, the Data
Archive posts this message periodically to remind subscribers of list
moderation guidelines and how to get help with subscription
problems.

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

A common subscriber question is "How do I change my address on the
CMRL list?"
Answer: You unsubscribe your old address and then subscribe your new
address.
The Web form for subscribing/unsubscribing to this list is here:
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/NDACAN/List_Serves/CMRL_Subscribe_Unsubscribe.html

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

  [Reprinted from the official online version at the Archive Web
Site at this location:
 

http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/NDACAN/List_Serves/CMRL_Guidelines.htmll
]

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.

Online location of "Using E-lists at Cornell":
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/elist/lyris/user-index.html


Sincerely,
  Andrés Arroyo
  Administrative Assistant
  National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)
  Cornell University, Beebe Hall - FLDC
  College of Human Ecology
  Ithaca NY 14853

  Phone: 607-255-7799
  Fax: 607-255-8562
  Web site:

www.ndacan.cornell.edu