Dear all The AoIR Executive has recently endorsed the following policy for management of the air-l list. Thanks to you all for your continued involvement and happy posting :) ---- AoIR air-l List Policy The air-l mailing list is maintained by the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and available to scholars and other interested people in this field, whether or not they are members of AoIR. This email list has well over 1000 subscribers and provides an excellent environment in which to share information, discuss key research concerns and network with those sharing similar research and scholarly interests. TECHNICAL INFORMATION To subscribe or manage your existing subscription, as well as to view archives, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org If already subscribed, to send email to the entire list, send it to air-l at listserv.aoir.org. A subscription management help file is available by emailing air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org. Type 'help' (no quotation marks) in the subject line or body of the message. To contact the list manager, send a message containing your question to air-l-owner at listserv.aoir.org. The size limit for air-l posts is 10 KB. Therefore, please do not send attachments to the list, try not to include entire digests or several lengthy earlier posts in your messages, and if possible, post in plain text rather than HTML. Messages larger than 10 KB are held for the list manager's approval and will be rejected with the request that they be edited or reformatted and re-sent. RULES AIR-L is an email list owned and operated by the Association of Internet Researchers and is managed for the Association by the AoIR Executive Committee. The Association reserves the right to remove subscribers and/or refuse subscription at any time without without warning or explanation. The Association would very much prefer not to exercise this right and will not need to if subscribers comply with the list rules. In subscribing to air-l and remaining subscribed to air-l, you are agreeing to adhere to these rules: Diverse opinions are welcome. The readership of air-l includes people from a wide variety of professional, disciplinary, methodological, and national traditions. List participants are expected to respect these differences. We ask that you maintain a tone of civility and use good judgment in your posts: disagreements are to be expected, but blatant rudeness, Personal attacks, lack of respect, and monopolization of air-l to further one's one agenda are not expected nor will they be tolerated. Anonymous subscriptions and posts are not allowed. In order to help maintain the list as a valuable resource for everyone, you must identify yourself by your real full name when you subscribe and when you post to air-l, and you should be prepared to verify your identity upon the executive committee's request, including by providing a c.v. or resume. This will normally occur upon subscription. You must reply to private email privately, and you may not forward personal email to air-l without the author's permission. ETIQUETTE Keep in mind that anything you send to air-l automatically goes to all subscribers - please keep posts on-topic for the list. Also remember when posting to the list that air-l is a public forum and that your words will be available to everyone subscribed to the list and placed in a public archive. Messages sent via email can easily be reproduced and circulated beyond their originally intended audience, and neither the list manager, the association's officers, nor the server1s host are responsible for consequences arising from list messages being re-distributed. DISCLAIMER Unless otherwise indicated, opinions expressed in messages on air-l are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent official AoIR policy. AoIR and its members bear no responsibility for the content of messages posted to air-l. This is an unmoderated list. ------------ Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor in Internet Studies President Association of Internet Researchers Faculty of Media Society and Culture Curtin University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00301J http://smi.curtin.edu.au/NetStudies/allen.htm +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 92663166 (f)