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About Bylaws Activities Officers and Managers Awards and Honors Honorary Ranks Chapter History		Last Page Update: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Posting rules for techcomm-discuss The following posting rules and guidelines apply to techcomm-discuss. You agreed to these posting rules when you subscribed to this listserv. General posting guidelines and a word about netiquette This listserv is a professional forum for issues dealing with technical communication. Please treat this forum, the several hundred members it serves, and the volunteers who maintain it with respect. While this listserv is unmoderated (your messages are not screened before they are posted to subscribing members), the listserv manager, STC RMC president, and STC RMC webmaster do monitor listserv activity and have the authority to stop threads that they deem are inappropriate for the forum, as well as to suspend and/or revoke posting privileges. As a general rule, if the matter is about technical communication and if you wouldn't mind if your next boss saw your post and knew it was from you ... it's probably acceptable to post. When in doubt, ask the listserv manager. What is acceptable to post? Anything related to technical communication is acceptable to post. This includes, but is not limited, to: Questions about matters of interest to technical communicators (tools and techniques, portfolios and resumes, finding jobs, encouraging clients to pay on time, freelancing, prying information out of SMEs ...) Announcements of relevant events (meetings, seminars, workshops, conferences, new product introductions ...) Requests for brainstorming on technical or design problems (be prepared to summarize the advice you receive, and post the summary to the list) Advertisements for items that you want to sell if the items are related to technical communication (for example, computer equipment, licensed software, technical references ...) Humor is acceptable, but please put the word "HUMOR" in the subject line. What is not acceptable to post? Like most other high-quality mailing lists, our mailing list has rules. List members who violate the following rules will be removed from the list. Don't post diatribes about anything. Don't post negative comments about individuals or take legitimate topics into personal realms. If you need to do this, do it off-list. Don't go off topic. For example, don't discuss gardening. Don't be obnoxious. Differences of opinion are encouraged; rudeness is not. If a posting makes you angry, please wait 24 hours before responding. Avoid personal insults. Don't advertise non-tech-comm items. For example, do not advertise cars for sale or houses for rent. Don't post job leads from the BWA mailing list. BWA has chosen to restrict their job ads to BWA members. Don't reply to everyone on the mailing list if you just want to reply to the person who sent the posting. Please look carefully at your email reply and make sure it is going to the recipient(s) you intended. Don't :cc other mailing lists in the postings that you make. If you want to send the same posting to several mailing lists, send them as separate messages. Otherwise, non-members might try to post to our members-only mailing list, generating lots of error messages for the listserv manager. A word of caution Remember that the Internet is a very, very public place - and that words posted cannot be revoked. Potential employers do use the Internet to investigate the information you present in your resume and cover letter. And current employers do the same.

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