File - FAQ about Network-Lawyers aka netLs

Basic information about Network-Lawyers aka netLs

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Topic and purpose .... we are legal professionals using the tools of the Internet to exchange information about the use of the Internet and other technology in the practice of law.  Our group, its email-based discussion list, its group weblog and "wiki" are launching pads for our common exploration and development of new uses and innovation on the Internet and a place for helping legal professionals who are new to the Internet. 

Commercial content .... advertising and marketing of ones own products and services is _off_ topic except for personal pages at the wiki web where you may wax eloquent on your page about your law and law related products and services.

Membership .... is limited to lawyers, law students, faculty, legal assistants, consultants to the profession and other legal professionals with an email based discussion, a collectively edited weblog and wiki web or collaboration platform. The group membership is limited to legal professionals. 

Wiki web .... home base for the group where all members may create and edit web pages using an simple full-page editor that works with your browsers.  Currently web pages at the wiki may be created by any member or members of the group for any law or law practice related topic or project of interest. This is best place for new members to get acquainted with Network-Lawyers:

http://network-lawyers.org/

Weblog .... where all members are invited to join in as editors, reporters or kibitzers. You may subscribe to receive articles by email or by an XML RSS feed.  The weblog is located at:

http://netls.weblog.org/

Email discussion and archives .... email-based discussion list with threaded messages--messages organized by topic--archives at Gmane newsgroups starting in June 2003 at:

http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.culture.law.network-lawyers

and since that might wrap onto two lines and break here is a tinyURL to the same place:

http://tinyurl.com/f536

and the serial, time and date order, message archives, with Yahoo ads to contend with, is at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/network-lawyers

Email subscriptions .... The web page for Network-Lawyers at the Group.Yahoo.Com address is where you may subscribe, modify how your subscription works, temporarily suspend or unsubscribe from the email discussion group. 

File library .... The Yahoo.com web page is where you may up load documents and other files to be shared with the group.  Like most discussion groups attachments are not accepted for distribution via email but you may announce the availability of a file in the file library.  That is the best way to handle distribution of files.

Moderators .... the co-moderators monitor the postings to the group to see that the message traffic stays on topic.  

Moderation of messages .... The first message or two posted that you post to the group will be "moderated" by the moderators.  There are seven or eight co-moderators who share this task so that messages should be approved within a few hours during the week days and a bit longer for messages posted on holidays or over a weekend.  Within one or two messages after you surface as an active participant in the discussions, the moderators, who have lots of other things to do, will set the message server to automatically forward your messages with out their approval.

Guidelines .... for additional rules and such see the last FAQ which is several years old prepared by Lew Rose who founded the discussion group that has evolved into Network-Lawyers discussion, weblog and wiki web.  What Lew had to say then is generally applicable now with the exceptions noted above about the messages being moderated on a much more limited basis.  The link to Lew's FAQ and guidelines is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/network-lawyers/files/guidelines.html

and since that might wrap onto two lines and break here is a tinyURL to the same place:

http://tinyurl.com/jw9l

Help, suggestions and comments ... all of the co-moderators may be reached with one message sent to:

[email protected]

You may track down the moderators at the Groups.Yahoo.Com site where they are listed in the membership list with little stars after their names.

If you would like to help make this FAQ better, let's hear your ideas and suggestions over at the DiscussionGroupFAQ at:

http://network-lawyers.org/DiscussionGroupFAQ

Thanks for participating in Network-Lawyers,

Max, Jerry, Bob, Wendy, Stuart, Kathy, Steve, Doug, Raineer and John

your co-moderators 

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