The Idaho Marine Aquarium Society Mailing List Rules

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Welcome to the Idaho Marine Aquarium Society Forum. You have or are about to subscribe to a forum consisting of people from all over the Treasure Valley with a strong interest in marine fish and marine reef aquariums. If you are an advanced or intermediate hobbyist, please feel free to contribute. If you are new to the hobby or just contemplating getting started, please feel free to ask questions as many questions as you wish - our primary function is to help you be successful. If you are shy, just lurk a while until you feel comfortable in joining in.

This list is owned, operated by and financed solely by the Idaho Marine Aquarium Society
Through the sharing of ideas, experiences and methods, the members of this group have evolved into a family. IMAS has given the group considerable leeway as to where we want to take the discussions, their format and the topics we wish to discuss. It should be noted at this point, however, that in all matters concerning this list, the IMAS committee has the final say.
The leeway you have will continue but you do need to adhere to the list of rules that are part of this document. This is a big family indeed.

The members of the group may suggest that an individual be removed from the list for conduct unbecoming a member, however, it is the IMAS committee's judgment as to final disposition. People will be removed from the list for failure to adhere to the guidelines presented below.
If you have become (or about to become) a member of this and think that the topic will he always be 100% reef keeping or 100% marine fish, then be advised that we do every once in a while get off on tangents. We may also mention other hobbies shared by members, tell jokes and have little fun.

If the off-topic messages become too numerous, please revert to private email with those interested. List members have other hobbies too but do not flood the list with messages relating to them.

Because of our approach to things, there may be a considerable amount of messages generated on any given day.

If you do not have the time or the patience for all of the e-mail than can be potentially generated (both hobby and non hobby related) then it is respectfully suggested that you reevaluate your decision to join. Keeping up with all of the e-mail generated on this list may be more of a chore than you want to handle, or are willing to accept.

Note that you can subscribe in digest form meaning you only get a specified number of posts.

To Set your LISTSERV subscription to "Digest" mode (get one email a week containing all of the emails of the week): send a blank email to list-digest-subscribe@list.idahoreefs.org

Messages posted to this list are rebroadcast to all list members; your response may be read by a child, someone's significant other, a parent, as well as someone in another country who may misinterpret what you intended to say.

Profanity of any kind, swearing, expletives, national and racial slurs, racial slurs, religious slurs, etc WILL NOT be permitted under any circumstance.

Adult humor will not be tolerated and should be sent privately. Be careful though not to offend anyone on the list. One liners are certainly welcome but if you are going to post humor please keep it short.

Flaming, personal insults and the like are not permitted. If you have a dispute with another list member, contact him/her privately and work it out. Then return to the list when both of you can play nice! The same goes for bashing of products or suppliers.

If you have used a product or purchased one from a supplier and have had negative results or if you feel that the product misrepresents itself, then an objective review of the product is in order. You may post what you used, how you used it, and what results were, good or bad, observed or measured. Remember that we all would like to hear success stories about products that work well. Give as many details about your experience as possible so others may benefit from yours.

Racial Jokes are not permissible at all and will be dealt with in a very serious manner.
When a list member posts his thoughts on a particular topic, it is his opinion. We may agree or disagree, however, we do owe that person the respect to read his opinion and not attempt to tell him that he is wrong. If you are given a suggestion and totally disagree with it, don't challenge it openly. Just say thanks and do what you feel is best.

This is America and free speech is the rule but that does not mean that everyone will agree with you. You can certainly argue your point but if the thread starts to get off topic please take it to a private exchange and then, when you have reached a consensus post to the list what the outcome was.

Selling products or services for personal gain in this forum is strictly prohibited. If you have items for sale post them to our Trading and Selling Board at www.idahoreefs.org.

We hope that you now know a little bit more about us and have elected to join. See you in the forum. You will learn a lot, I can guarantee you that

If the topics get off of Reef and Marine keeping, and the subject identifies it as such, and you are not interested in the topic just use your DEL key. That is the easiest way to reduce the number of messages you will want to read.

Thanks,

The Idaho Marine Aquarium Society Committee