About the Globalchange list: ======================= PURPOSE AND SCOPE =======================
Globalchange is a moderated newsgroup/mailing list for the discussion of environmental science, economics, policy and politics, especially as related to global change issues such as climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability. Discussion is **not** restricted to purely scientific/technical questions nor is it limited to climate change. We are trying to provide a medium for constructive, informed and multifaceted dialog without ill-will and needless confrontation. ======================= HOW TO PARTICIPATE ======================= I. WEB INTERFACE Probably the easiest way to participate initially is to point your browser to <http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange/> and you can read the messages immediately. You may send submissions through the web interface, or by email to [email protected] Using the interface in this way does not require you to get a Google login. II. RSS FEED It is possible to subscribe to the newsgroup as an RSS feed. See http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange/feeds for more information III. NNTP FEED An nntp feed is available at news://nntp:gmane.science.general.global-change This group is carried by the free news-server news.gmane.org. IV. MAILING LIST You can subscribe to globalchange as a mailing list, but you have to use the web to sign up (or ask a moderator to add you). Go to <http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange/> and click "join this group" and follow instructions (you will need to set up a free google account). If you subscribe to the email, you need not ever use the web interface or your google account again. You may send submissions by email to [email protected] ======================= MODERATION ======================= It is difficult to specify what "fair" or "unfair" moderation means without getting tediously legalistic. To avoid endless haggling about this, we formulate our policy thus: Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if ANY moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. We are not unanimous in our opinions, and are open to submissions from people outside the spectrum of opinion represented by the moderators. We will endeavor to remove obvious provocations ("trolls"). We also discourage postings that are redundant, in the sense that the poster has already made their points and does not seem to take account of the responses but is merely insistently reasserting points previously made. Google's moderation system is rather basic, and mistakes can easily be made (and have been). If your message has not propagated after 3 days, and you are confident that it should have passed moderation, please resubmit it. (We also have been known to allow spam through by mistake. Sorry about that, please just ignore it.) ======================== JOINING THE GROUP HELPS ======================== "Membership" is encouraged, as it permits participants to be whitelisted, reducing propagation delays, errors, and the workload of the moderators. Non-members are welcome to post but all their messages will necessarily enter the moderation queue. PLEASE PARTICIPATE! respectfully, your moderators James Annan Raymond Arritt Coby Beck William Connolley Michael Tobis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
