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Rules of Behavior for CMS Consultants Mailing Lists
- Use our subject tags to categorize your messages.
- Trim your posts.
- Edit the original post, and put your reply below quotes from original
- If you are a digest subscriber, do not include the whole digest when replying to a message. Edit to your topic.
- Messages are normally limited to 100KB. Moderator may approve larger posts
- No spam.
- Keep commercial replies off-list. (Send PR posts to cms-pr@lists.cmprofessionals.org.)
- Keep self-promotion brief and relevant.
- Avoid "religious wars" (e.g., Mac vs. Windows, Open-source vs. Proprietary, Java vs. Perl vs. Python, Linux vs. everything else).
- No ad hominem attacks.
- Don't respond to trolls.
- Don't reply to one thread to start another.
- If you change the subject slightly, alter the subject line.
- Keep meta-discussion to a minimum; we’re here to discuss content management, not the operation of this list. (Send meta-discussion to cmpros-org@lists.cmprofessionals.org.)
- Keep etiquette and topic reminders polite and off-list. List moms appreciate reminders from listers, but send them off-list please (with a copy to the list-mom).
- Replies policy: Do not cc the list in a reply to an email addressed to you without the permission of the email sender. However, CMS Consultants officers are free to summarize and paraphrase the content of emails addressed to them personally or at their official "role" mailboxes and post them to this list protecting the anonymity of the original sender. Use "off-list" explicitly in personal messages to prevent such dissemination.
- Out of office and vacation auto replies: Please set your auto reply only for messages sent explicitly to you in the to: or cc: or bcc: lines. Also, you should change your profile on the mailing list temporarily to "no mail."
- Abusers of these rules will have their posts moderated and possibly edited.
Subject Tags
We recommend that you add subject tags to the subject lines of your emails. This serves two purposes:
- help subscribers filter their messages
- help find messages in the mailing list archives
For the general CMS Consultants list:
[Intro]
[CM] -- the business issues of content management
[CMS] -- specific systems/technology issues
[Announce] -- announcement of a training session, seminar, etc. that you know of or are leading -- please, no more than one announcement for each event
[Admin] -- message from your list administrators
[Action]
[Projects]
[Question]
For the cmpros-org list
(feel free to use on cmpros to help sort messages)
[Board]
[Summit]
[Marketing]
[Benefits]
[Practices]
[Mail Lists]
[Calendars]
[Glossary]
[Library]
[IP]
[Job Board]
[Surveys]
[Minutes]
[Membership]
[Shop]
[Testing]
[Volunteers]
[Personas]
[Scenarios]
[Website]
Help and More Information
In order to post a message to any CMS Consultants mailing list -- private or public -- you must be subscribed to that list.
Managing Your Subscriptions: To manage your mailing list subscriptions, please see CMS Consultants handy, interactive Mailing List Subscription Manager, which lists all available CMS Consultants lists, public and private.
Using the Mailing List Archives: Messages for all CMS Consultants mailing lists are archived. To read the archives, you will probably be challenged for your email and password to confirm that you are a list member. Available archives include:
Managing Your Mailing List Membership Information: To update your mailing list membership information, please see CMS Consultants mailing list membership configuration interface. Settings include:
- Email Address: To change your email address for a specific mailing list, you must unsubscribe the old address and subscribe a new address. Please note that mailing list moderators must approve all subscription requests for CMS Consultants private mailing lists.
- PLEASE NOTE that the CMS Consultants technology infrastructure maintains member email addresses in at least two locations: 1) the CMS Consultants intranet software (which controls access to members-only website areas), and 2) in the CMS Consultants Mailing List Membership Information configuration tool. To update your CMS Consultants intranet email address, please log in to our intranet and select Edit Personal Info
- SECOND Email address? Members often post to a list form a second or third email address and find their messages rejected. The mailing list moderators can add these extra addresses to the list database for automatic approval. It must be done manually by the moderator.
- Password: Your CMS Consultants mailing list passwords are different from your CMS Consultants intranet password. If you experience problems, please see CMS Consultants "forgot your password" page.
- Mail delivery: Set this option to Enabled to receive messages posted to this mailing list. Too much mail? Set it to Disabled if you want to stay subscribed, but don't want mail delivered to you for a while (e.g. you're going on vacation). If you disable mail delivery, don't forget to re-enable it when you come back; it will not be automatically re-enabled.
- Set Digest Mode : If you turn digest mode on, you'll get posts bundled together (usually one per day but possibly more on busy lists), instead of singly when they're sent. If digest mode is changed from on to off, you may receive one last digest.
- Get MIME or Plain Text Digests? Your mail reader may or may not support MIME digests. In general MIME digests are preferred, but if you have a problem reading them, select plain text digests.
- Receive your own posts to the list? Ordinarily, you will get a copy of every message you post to the list. If you don't want to receive this copy, set this option to No.
- Get password reminder email for this list? Once a month, you will get an email containing a password reminder for every list at this host to which you are subscribed. You can turn this off on a per-list basis by selecting No for this option. If you turn off password reminders for all the lists you are subscribed to, no reminder email will be sent to you.
- Conceal yourself from subscriber list? When someone views the list membership, your email address is normally shown (in an obscured fashion to thwart spam harvesters). If you do not want your email address to show up on this membership roster at all, select Yes for this option.
- Avoid duplicate copies of messages? When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list message, you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list. Select Yes to avoid receiving copies from the mailing list; select No to receive copies.
