Mailing List Policies and Community Standards
- Your first message to the mailing list will be delayed for moderation. This will only happen for your first message. This moderation delay will be removed after we see that you are not a spammer.
- We encourage you to use a signature at the bottom of your messages that at least contains your name.
- We have a no evil policy. If you're a sociopath, then we'll get rid of you.
- It's okay to have debates, even heated ones; so long as it is something worth fighting for.
- Profanity is greatly discouraged, and it may provoke disciplinary intervention, such as removal from the mailing list
- Proponents of energy healing (except orgone related), witchcraft, detox foot pads, radiation devices, M.M.S., DCA, magnet therapy, urine therapy, tapping (excepting reflexology) and other frauds are asked to avoid these topics.
- Personal attacks are generally discouraged, and administrators may intervene.
- Do not copy entire articles from other sources, unless permission from the rights owner(s) has been obtained. It is ethical and legal to quote small sections of articles elsewhere. Always give proper attribution and a complementary link to the original source. Anything that falls under the provisions of Fair Use as defined by U.S. law is permissible.
- We strongly encourage you to sign-up using your real name, because people will respect you more and consider your words to be more credible. We consider openness, honesty, and a willingness to stand behind one's words as paramount to building a healthy community.
- We have a difficult balancing act that we hope you can respect. This balancing act is one of weighing open community collaboration verses practicality. We expect serious health topics to be discussed, and as a result of such discussions, people could be harmed or killed by misinformation. This is a burden that we bear constantly. Remember this rule: first do no harm above all else.
- Members can easily have themselves removed from the mailing list. We never hold e-mail addresses hostage like our peers do, or harass you forever more. There are instructions in every message about how to unsubscribe, and the process is easy.
- Posts which do not contain anything meaningful will not get posted to the list. Messages are delivered to lots of people, and members can find it annoying to receive dozens of messages such as "Me too!" flooding their in-boxes. Please be considerate and mindful of this. Personal messages to Thomas or Sarah should be sent personally to them using their contact form, unless the topic would be of interest to the whole community. Requests for appraisals of companies or commercial products will always be blocked from the mailing lists.
