[aaus-list] Changes to AAUS-list--all members please read this

[Vadim]

Simple but excellent idea that totally makes sense.

V.Gorbach


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Robert DeLossa <radelo at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear AAUS-list members,
> There has been much discussion in past months about the future of AAUS-list,
> both on the list and in the Executive of AAUS. We are now introducing
> changes to the list and wish to solicit comments from AAUS members and
> AAUS-list users. During recent months, our list users have initiated new and
> sometimes sharp debates on political themes. These new debates fall outside
> the norms for AAUS-list and introduced more sustained tension within the
> list than we previously had experienced during the eight years of the list.
> Still, we do see value in providing a forum for such debate, so we are
> proposing a new subsidiary list for such discussions: the
> AAUS-community-list.
> The main AAUS-list will continue to be used for AAUS business (e.g.,
> announcing meetings and awards) as well as for academic announcements. It
> will be limited in the future only to members and affiliates of the AAUS.
> Political discussions and non-academic announcements will be open to the
> community at large and will be conducted on the AAUS-community-list. Both
> lists will be moderated.
> All announcements from AAUS-list will be reproduced on AAUS-community-list
> so that members do not need to belong to both lists in order to participate
> in political debate and to receive news of the profession.
> Posts from AAUS-community-list will not be reproduced on AAUS-list, so that
> members who wish to belong to a purely academic/informational list can
> choose that option.
> We have been compelled to make this change in response to concerns raised
> both by our association's members and its officers regarding conflict among
> list users. There is no clear guideline in the by-laws for how to carry out
> this split in our list. To facilitate making the list work better, we are
> giving this proposed change a three-day comment period. At the end of this
> period, we will move all current members of AAUS-list to AAUS-community-list
> unless an individual member requests to remain on AAUS-list. Instructions
> for making comments on the changes or for requesting to remain on AAUS-list
> are given at the end of this message. A reminder about how to post to the
> lists will be sent once the change is made. At the next AAUS meeting in
> November we will vote on the proposed changes to make them final or to make
> any other changes that are deemed necessary.
> I also will be sending out another e-mail in the next few days that provides
> historical background about AAUS and proposes norms of communications,
> including discussion of the role of moderation on these lists.
>
> FORMAL TEXT OF PROPOSED CHANGE TO AAUS-list
> 1. The AAUS will hereafter conduct two e-mail lists for the benefit of its
> members: AAUS-list and AAUS-community-list.
> 2. AAUS-list will be open only to members and affiliates of the AAUS. Only
> members and affiliates of AAUS may post messages to AAUS-list.
> 2a. The subject of posts to AAUS-list will be only those items of
> professional interest to practitioners of Ukrainian studies. These include
> commentary about events within Ukraine or the field of Ukrainian studies, or
> notices about accomplishments within the field, lectures, support
> opportunities, publications, professional meetings, job announcements, etc.
> 2b. Posts to AAUS-list must conform to standards of professional civility:
> anonymous posts will not be allowed, neither will ad hominem attacks.
> Members of the list not conforming to these standards will be warned once by
> a moderator of the list. A second infraction will result in the list member
> being moved to AAUS-community-list and losing his or her posting rights to
> AAUS-list.
> 2c. AAUS-list will be a semi-moderated list. Messages will not be
> automatically filtered, but will be monitored by the Outreach Officer
> (currently the Chair of the Communications Committee) as stipulated by AAUS
> by-laws and by other designees of the Executive of the AAUS. Violations of
> the rules of the list will result in the consequences outlined in 2b above.
> Subscription to the list will not be automatic, but will need to be
> confirmed by the official designees of the AAUS Executive, pursuant to
> verification of membership in the AAUS or affiliate status with the AAUS.
> 2d. Messages from AAUS-list will continue to be archived and searchable on
> the world-wide web.
> 3. AAUS-community-list will be open to members of the AAUS and individuals
> outside of AAUS who have a personal and/or professional interest in the
> independent nation of Ukraine and the study of Ukraine's society, politics,
> history, language, etc. Posts from non-members of the list will be allowed
> at the discretion of the moderators of the list.
> 3a. The subject of posts to AAUS-community-list should be items of
> importance to Ukrainian studies: issues emanating from Ukraine and Ukrainian
> studies, current events important to Ukraine and Ukrainian studies, and
> social, political, or economic issues that would be of interest to
> individuals on the list as intellectuals and professionals.
> 3b. Member posts to AAUS-community-list must follow the same standards of
> decorum enumerated in 2b above. However, "professional civility" will be
> interpreted more loosely by the list moderators than for AAUS-list.
> 3c. AAUS-community-list will not be moderated except for spam and non-member
> posts. These will be filtered by the Outreach Officer (currently the Chair
> of the Communications Committee) as stipulated by AAUS by-laws. In those
> cases when members of AAUS-community-list violate the standards of
> professional civility, the Outreach Officer or other members of the
> Executive may, at their discretion, remove members from the list.
> 3d. Messages from AAUS-community-list will be archived and searchable on the
> world-wide web.
> 4. All messages from AAUS-list will be posted to AAUS-community-list.
> Messages from AAUS-community-list will not be posted to AAUS-list. Members
> of AAUS should choose one or the other list to join, but should not join
> both.
>
> END FORMAL TEXT OF PROPOSED CHANGE
> Summary:
> AAUS-list will become the more narrow list that some members have requested.
> AAUS-community-list will continue the profile and operations of the current
> list.
> Action list:
> 1) If you wish to comment on the above, please send your comments to
> <aaus-list-owner at ukrainianstudies.org>. I will summarize comments and post
> to the group.
> 2) If you are an AAUS member and wish to remain on AAUS-list and not be
> moved to AAUS-community-list, you must send a message to
> <aaus-list-owner at ukrainianstudies.org> stating in the subject line or body
> of the message "keep me on AAUS-list" with your name and affiliation. By
> doing this you will not be on the list that has a broader thematic scope and
> allows debate on political and cultural topics. You will belong to a list
> that is more purely informational and will behave more along the lines of
> the H-net lists.
>
> Regards,
> Robert DeLossa, AAUS Communications
>
> --
>
> Robert DeLossa
> Chair, AAUS Communications Committee
> List-moderator, AAUS-list
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