15 July 2000
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:40:35 -0500
To: intelforum@his.com
From: Michael Dravis <oso@his.com>
Subject: New I.F. Procedures
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From the Co-Directors...
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Dear members of Intelligence Forum:
For a variety of reasons, we have delayed the moderated format. We hope to have it in place on or about July 19.
A draft of the revised I.F. Membership and Posting Guidelines is attached below for consideration by the membership.
The smooth operation of the moderated format will require that all posters familiarize themselves with these Posting Guidelines so as to avoid delays in the flow of discussion threads.
Comments, both on-list and off-list, are welcome.
Sincerely,
Sarah-Jane Corke <i93h@unb.ca>
Mike Dravis <oso@his.com>
Co-Directors, Intelligence Forum
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Updated: 7/11/00
The following are general Membership and Posting Guidelines for I.F.
Additional details about I.F.'s policies and procedures can be found on the World Wide Web at http://intelforum.org/news.html.
- As specified in I.F.'s charter, the mission of Intelligence Forum is "the scholarly discussion of intelligence." Discussion threads are directly related to intelligence topics.
- Intelligence Forum is a moderated discussion group. One of the I.F. Co-Directors, or their representative, serves as Moderator.
- Members of I.F. assume full responsibility for the stylistic and substantive content of their posts.
- The basic purpose of the moderated procedure is to ensure that posts to I.F. are related to intelligence and that they conform to I.F.'s Posting Guidelines.
- Messages submitted for distribution to I.F. are reviewed by the Moderator and, unless found to be in violation of the Posting Guidelines, are distributed to the list as soon as possible.
- As time allows, the I.F. Moderator may take the following actions, among others:
1) Return a message to the poster with an explanation regarding why it is not being submitted to the list;2) Include an introductory comment at the beginning of a post, such as a request that responses should be submitted directly to the poster and not to the list as a whole.
- If a member of I.F. submits a message that is refused by the Moderator, he or she may request an appeal to the I.F. Review Committee. The Review Committee is in effect a sub-committee of the Advisory Board and has the authority to overrule the Moderator on a case by case basis.
- Messages submitted for distribution to I.F. must be signed with the true name of the poster (not an alias) and should include a return e-mail address for the poster.
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- Authors and readers are encouraged to submit messages apprising I.F. members about new books on intelligence topics, however such posts should not include information on how to order the item in question.
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