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The NGCSU Discussion Forum is a private listserv whose membership is limited to NGCSU faculty & staff who are already subscribed to the regular NGCSU faculty/staff e-mail list. To subscribe, simply click here to send an e-mail to the list owner requesting that you be added to the list. In it, type "Subscribe" in the subject line and then type your e-mail address and full (first & last) name in the body of the message. By the way, since this is a selective list rather than an institutional one, I have to do this manually. So it may take me a few days to get around to checking for new subscribers and enroll you.

When your subscription is processed, you should receive two communications. One contains all of the procedures necessary for the maintenance of your membership - how to post messages, how to unsubscribe, etc. The other contains the list usage guidelines outlined below. Please read them both carefully and keep them for future reference.

  Appropriate Topics for Discussion:

Topics that are appropriate for discussion include (but are certainly not restricted to) the following:

• Current issues of interest at NGCSU

• Inquiries, concerns, or observations about teaching, research, and service at NGCSU or elsewhere

• Reviews or opinions on articles, books, films, software, concerts, sporting events, etc.

• Announcements of or invitations to conferences, workshops, or other events & meetings not related to general faculty/staff concerns

• Opinions on local, state, national, and international events, affairs, and politics

• Thanks, kudos, suggestions, critiques, or other recognitions of individual or group achievements, conduct, and efforts

• ??

  Inappropriate Conduct:

The Discussion Forum Committee believes that as a constitutional right and fundamental principle to democracy, free speech should be supported and encouraged in this forum. However, the Committee is also duty-bound to strongly discourage the following:

• Using the list to distribute obscene materials or circumvent copyright restrictions

• Revealing another's personal or professional information inappropriately

• Intruding on or revealing another's private or professional affairs

• Name-calling or other "ad-hominem" attacks

• Offensive, threatening, or otherwise harassing language

• Threats of violence or harm of any kind

• Any form of conduct prohibited by NGCSU Faculty & Staff Handbooks, NGCSU & USG policies, or applicable laws and statues

Subscribers engaging in such conduct should realize that they are subject to the same sanctions, disciplinary actions, and prosecution they can expect in any other institutional or public domain. The committee encourages members to consult the the State of Georgia's AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) for information technology resources at the following URL for any questions they might have:

http://apache.ngcsu.edu/adminsrv/infotech/infosec/legal/state/state_policy.pdf

  Some "Netiquette" Tips:

The following helpful hints will help make discussions more substantive and pleasant and, as more subscribers come on-line, keep the overall volume of communications at a tolerable level:

• When you're ready to post to the list, reread your message. Considered composition and correct spelling lend it credibility, giving you time to think about what you are sending. Once you hit "send," it's too late!

• When you respond to a posting, consider whether you should address the whole list or respond to the sender privately.

• Before you forward a message or other content from someone else to the list, consider whether or not s/he sent it to you in confidence. If s/he did, you may lose a friend or gain an enemy!

• Remember that what you write may live in someone's archives until it comes back to either lend you glory or haunt you forever!

  Unsubscribing from the Discussion List:

If you end up LOSING your greeting/instructions message and want to get OFF the discussion list, here's how to do it:

You can either remove yourself permanently from a LISTSERV list or you can temporarily suspend mail from a LISTSERV list. In either case, you need to first log onto the system you used to subscribe to the list (your NGCSU e-mail account).

To permanently remove yourself from a list, send mail to LISTSERV at the nodeid of the list with the following one line as the body of the mail:

signoff listname

The "listname" is the name of the list from which you wish to be removed. For example, if I wanted to unsubscribe from the list, I would send a message to NGCSUDISCUSS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU with the command: SIGNOFF NGCSUDISCUSS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU in the body of the message.

To temporarily suspend mail from a list, send mail to LISTSERV at the nodeid of the list with the following one line as the body of the mail:

set listname nomail

To resume mail, send the same one-line message and change "nomail" to "mail".