[nabs-l] Listserv ettiquet, please read

[justin williams]

What would you consider as well thought out?  What if I am simply expressing
support or agreement with a post?  

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mary Fernandez
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 1:50 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Listserv ettiquet, please read

All,
I am attaching and pasting in the body of this email, a list of guidelines
that we should all follow when posting to this list. I'd appreciate it if we
can all make an attempt to comply.
Feel free to email me with any questions.
Thanks.
NABS List Guidelines

1.	 This Listserv is a great forum in which we can all express our
opinions. Which in turns, means that we will inevitably disagree.
However, when responding to a post, always be respectful. Everyone is
entitled to their opinion, and personal attacks and  degrading comments will
not be tolerated.
2.	All posts must be appropriate. The Listserv is opened to students
of all ages, from middle school to post graduate, it is also opened to
blindness professionals and other interested parties. Thus, when posting on
the listserv remember to use the appropriate language.
Profanity is not appropriate. Furthermore, the content should be well
thought out.
3.	In the last year, many people have taken to posting one liners to
the list. This habit creates unnecessary clutter. Often, there are several
threads going on at once, and one might feel compel to answer to each of
those individually. When this happens, please make sure that your post says
more than, "I agree" or "good idea". When responding to a post, please make
sure that there is actual substance to that post, which will further the
conversation. To go along with that, when someone expresses a differing
opinion, and you have already voiced your thought, please do not send
repeated posts on how you stand by your opinion unless you have more to add
to that. Threads that grow into the 70s and 80s in posts, should not be half
made up of "that's what I think, like I said before", and "I stand by what I
said earlier". Rule of thumb is to post in a way to further the
conversation.
4.	When you would like to write someone off list, do so. You do not
have to write one liners to every person you'd like to email off list.
If you develop a conversation with that person, that's great, if they feel
they do not want to respond that is their right too.
5.	Stay on topic. There are many times when informational emails are
sent out to the list for distribution, these often include, but are not
limited to: survey, announcements, ads, etc. If you have a moral objection
to said informational emails, and it is relevant to blind students, please
start a new thread. A lot of times people are so overwhelmed by the response
to a particular informational email, that they cannot find the original
post, and so someone who might benefit from it has difficulty getting at the
information.
6.	Finally, if at any point Mr. Whalen, who is the NABS President, Mr.
David Andrews, who is the master for all NFB-net listservs, or myself, say
that it is not ok to continue a thread, that thread should stop.
Feel free to email us telling us why you think it should continue if you
think it should and we will be more than happy to listen.


--
Mary Fernandez
List Moderator
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what
you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-
Maya Angelou