I'd like to resubmit a posting I made last October about the purpose of this list, along with a reminder that its contents are archived for posterity. IMO, retrieving information from the Web is hard enough without having to wade through jokes and irrelevant comments.
There is little need to single out particular individuals in this regard. Everyone should please keep in mind the purposes of the ARSClist and assure that submissions are appropriate to a professional listserv. I know *many* people who gave up on 78-L. Please, let's not lose them from this list due to useless posts. There have been some particularly valuable threads the past two weeks. I was pleased to add some contributions by Eric Jacobs and Richard Hess to my "permanant" archives. Thanks to you all.
From October, 2005:
This is a good time to review the purposes of ARSCLIST and re-post the guidelines. The Board of ARSC met last Saturday and there was some discussion about this list and the amount of "noise" on it. We risk losing valuable subscribers if the list becomes cluttered with off-topic, irrelevant, or otherwise inappropriate posts.
It is ARSC's intention that ARSClist be a forum for "professional" discussions about recorded sound and that it be open to anyone. The number of subscribers is increasing, fortunately, but that means that we need to be especially careful about extraneous posts to the list. In this category, I would include jokes, politics, non-substantive responses to other posts, and personal communications best written to only one or two people on the list.
Some excerpts from the guidelines posted at arsc-audio.org follow.
Thanks to all of you. Sam Brylawski
The Purpose of the List Topics appropriate for discussion may include discussion about recorded sound research, history, innovations, preservation, archiving, copyrights and access and announcements about ARSC activities and publications. Other lists may be more appropriate forums for subjective discussions of particular recordings or artists, restoration of antique equipment, buying and selling recordings and the collecting of ephemera. All messages posted to the list will be archived permanently. By posting to this list the subscriber agrees to have his or her message become part of the permanent public archive.
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