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AAIS List-Serve Troubleshooting
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AAIS List-Serve Information
The AAIS list-serve is a moderated announcement e-mail list. It is intended for the use of academics, scholars and graduate students in Italian and Italian Studies all over the world.
List-Serve Purpose
The purpose of the AAIS list-serve is to help Italianists around the world support one another in their professional tasks. Subscribers may place queries on matters involving Italian and Italian Studies, such as bibliographical items, scholarly background information, difficult constructions, and issues of translation and interpretation. Other appropriate topics are announcements of conferences and events related to Italian and Italian Studies, postings of academic positions in Italian and Italian Studies, and books announcements. The AAIS list-serve is not the appropriate forum for amateur inquiries about Italian and Italian Studies or for discussion of contemporary religious and political concerns. The framework for discussion on the list is academic, non-religious, and non-political.
List-Serve Rules
1. Respect our focus.
Keep to the focus: Italian and Italian Studies (and closely related materials). Occasional excursions into related areas are acceptable to the extent that they shed light on our common quest. Political agendas, commercial advertisements, personal experiences or messages are completely inappropriate and therefore will be never published by the moderator of the list.
2. Respect others.
Observe common courtesy, scholarly collegiality, and list etiquette at all times. All comments that reflect negatively on other groups or individuals (including negative references to another’s competence) are unacceptable.
3. Give each post a useful subject header.
Each subject header should indicate the subject of the message.
4. Participate with restraint.
You are in a list with many other informed participants. Participate when you can make a useful contribution and do not dominate the conversation. Avoid chatter and clutter. Messages should be considered and concise. Do not post messages with enclosures (attachments); either convert the attachment to plain text or offer to send it to individuals who request it.
5. Be careful when you quote someone.
Be careful with quotations and their attributions. When you respond to a posting, quote enough to make your point; do not re-post the whole message. Do not re-post another’s private mail without the explicit permission of the writer. Do not post copyrighted materials beyond fair use without permission of the copyright owners. If you use material from our list elsewhere, give credit to the author and cite the appropriate digest in the archives.
6. Use standard conventions in writing.
Show consideration for your readers by observing ordinary conventions of spelling, capitalization, sentence construction, paragraphing, and transliteration. You can use either English or Italian.
7. Identify yourself at the end of each post.
End every posting to the list with your full name, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address. Pseudonyms are not acceptable. If you wish to be addressed by another name, indicate this in your signature.
