Discussion Group Etiquette

Your participation on CONNECT constitutes your agreement to the following community guidelines, terms, and conditions.

To boost your participation...

  1. No cross-posting, please! To avoid redundant messaging, please post your announcement or message just once in the most relevant community. An even better way is to send your announcement to executiveoffice@acnm.org for inclusion in the ACNM Weekly Update, which is emailed to all members every Friday.
  2. Posting or otherwise circulating commercial messages, product or service promotions, advertising, selling goods or services, making solicitations of any kind (research, survey, service and/or product promotions, etc.) are prohibited.
  3. Respect the opinions of your peers. If you feel the need to disagree, do so respectfully. Acknowledge that others are entitled to have their perspective.
  4. Avoid anger or sarcasm, even in humor. Without hearing your tone, your colleagues may misinterpret your intent.
  5. Please don't type in ALL CAPS. It appears as if you are shouting.
  6. Please check the most recent comments before you reply to a comment to ensure you are responding to the latest post.
  7. State the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.
  8. Send messages such as "thanks for the information" or "me, too" to individuals-- not to the entire list. Do this by using the "Reply to Sender" link in every message.
  9. Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. To change your email address, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address. Simply change your settings.
  10. Be concise. Additional content can be added as attachments.

Any other questions? Contact us at connect@acnm.org. Thank you!