Guidelines for participation

Welcome to id21 Health's online discussion on access to HIV treatment and care in developing countries. Click here for instructions on how to join the discussion. Once you have joined and the discussion begins, you can contribute by sending your comments to hiv@lyris.ids.ac.uk.

The discussion will last six weeks. Successive phases will each cover a different topic. A short summary of each phase and a final report will be available online and emailed to all participants. The final report will also be available in hard-copy format.

PLEASE LET EVERYONE KNOW WHO YOU ARE: send a short (around 30 words) introduction including your name, affiliation and country with your first posting to the discussion. We will add this summary to all your further postings.

Messages will be sent out as a batch once a day. If you would prefer to receive the messages combined in a single daily email, send an email to lyris@lyris.ids.ac.uk with the message:

set tobacco digest

When posting a message, PLEASE:

1. Be brief and to the point.
2. Avoid email attachments and HTML coding.
3. Keep comments relevant to the current topic; use a descriptive subject header.
4. Avoid slang, idioms, jargon or bad language.
5. Do not post offensive or inflammatory messages.

id21 will moderate the discussion. We will review incoming messages for relevance to the current topic. When traffic is especially heavy, we will select a representative group of messages for posting, giving priority to first-time contributors.

Please note that the moderators will refuse to post any message that they consider to be in violation of the above rules. id21 also retains the right to make copies of the messages posted to the list as part of the normal process of archiving the discussions and to publish in whole or in part the messages posted to the list.

If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE, send an email to lyris@lyris.ids.ac.uk, with the message:

unsubscribe hiv YourFirstName YourLastName
e.g. unsubscribe hiv Emily Smith

Unsubscribe instructions are also given at the bottom of each HIV list message.

If you wish to CHANGE your address for receiving messages, please unsubscribe as above and then send a message from your new address to lyris@lyris.ids.ac.uk, with the first line:

subscribe hiv YourFirstName YourLastName
e.g. subscribe hiv Emily Smith

DISCLAIMER

1. LIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY: You are legally responsible, and solely responsible, for any content that you post to the discussion. You may only post materials that you have the right or permission to distribute electronically. You agree to hold id21 free of any and all liability arising from your posting of any materials to the HIV discussion list.
2. ACCURACY: id21 can not and does not guarantee the accuracy of any statements made in or materials posted to the list by participants.
3. ATTRIBUTION: Participants in the HIV list are assumed to be speaking in their personal capacity, unless they explicitly state that their contribution represents the views of their organisation. For this reason, list participants should not quote the postings of other participants as representing the views of the organisations to which those other participants belong.
4. COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE: As a participant in the HIV discussion list, you retain copyright of any materials of your own creation that you post. However, you authorise other participants in the list to make personal and customary use of that work, including creating links to or reposting such materials to other Internet discussion sites, but not otherwise to reproduce or disseminate those materials unless you give permission. You agree always to identify the source and author of materials you download from the list if you repost them elsewhere.