Guidelines for Posting to AEU Mailing Lists

"Act so as to elicit the best in others" is a good general guideline for list behavior. Netiquette for AEU lists include fairness, kindness, courtesy and respect for individuals.

Postings which harass or attack or personally insult individuals are not permitted. You are welcome to express civil disagreement with ideas and behavior.

Postings that are overly long, that come from addresses not subscribed to the lists, or that include long lists of "cc:" addresses are automatically rejected by the software managing the lists.  It's up to you as a subscriber to remedy the situation and resubmit your post.

If you have an email program that sends formatted emails, please turn this off.  In Outlook and Outlook Express, look for the address book entry for the list address, and check the box for sending "plain text" to the list. Many subscribers receive gibberish if you send formatted emails, and the formatting can easily double or triple the actual size of your message, triggering the size limit on posts.

For the sake of all subscribers, we ask that you keep copies of previous message text to that portion of the original helpful to understanding your reply, that personal messages be sent to individuals instead of to the list, that you not forward long emails from outside sources (post a summary and a link instead), and that posts focus on the topic that is the stated focus of the list.

Posts of copyrighted material, other than the small excerpts permitted as "fair use," without permission of the copyright holder are not permitted. (For more information on copyright in the United States see the Library of Congress website.) That the AEU is a not-for-profit, educational and religious organization does not automatically make such postings "fair use." That an article is posted online does not remove relevant copyright protections, and under current law, this includes articles and emails without copyright notices on them. Instead, post a summary of the information and, when available, a link to the online version.

Don't forward virus warnings or email petitions -- most are bogus or are outdated.  (See http://antivirus.about.com or http://urbanlegends.about.com or other online resources to check the validity of such emails that you may be tempted to forward.)

Please remember that list administrators are volunteers, and may not be able to respond instantaneously to requests or other emails.

To establish an unofficial discussion list, you're welcome to visit sites such as www.topica.com or www.yahoo.com for information and instructions.