There are a number of public listserves that the DC IMC maintains. Membership in these lists is open, posting is allowed by all subscribers unless otherwise noted. Please be aware that postings are archived on the web. We welcome questions and new ideas on our lists.

The links below contain a subscription form as well the list archives. The lists are hosted on lists.indymedia.org, go there to find many other lists used by the worldwide IMC network.

General Lists

• imc-dc - General list for items of interest to the DC IMC community
• imc-dc-announce - Announcements of DC IMC events (low-volume)

Working Group Lists

• imc-dc-editorial - DC IMC editorial working group list. Write to imc-dc-editorial@lists.indymedia.org
• imc-dc-tech - DC IMC tech working group list
• imc-dc-video - DC IMC video working group list imc-dc-photo - DC IMC photo working group list —>

Co-Op Organizing Lists

• imc-dc-abacus - Discussion of confidental/legal issues for DC IMC (closed membership/private archive)

General List Rules

passed July 28, 2003

Replying: When replying to a previous message, only quote the parts of the previous message that are relevant to your message. Delete the rest — it just takes up additional space in everyone's inbox, as well as making the message harder to read, especially for those who read the list in digest form.

Message format: Send messages in plain text format, not rich text or html. Not all email clients have the ability to read html messages, and some people will receive a page of garbled characters, rather than your message.

Attachments: Do not send messages with attachments. Not everyone has the ability to read attachments, and for many people a large attachment will fill their inbox and cause other messages to bounce. If you have a document to send out, such as an event flyer, you can either provide a link to the document on the web, or ask people to email you to request a copy of the document.

Privacy: Be aware that anything you sent to a list (except imc-dc-abacus) will be publicly archived on the web, and available for anyone to read or find in a search, forever! Be careful what you say and what personal information you give out.

Message subject: Use a descriptive subject line for your post, so that it's easy to identify.

Crossposting: Please do not crosspost messages to multiple DC IMC lists unless your message is relevant to every list. General meeting announcements/minutes should be sent to imc-dc and imc-dc-work. Working group meeting announcements should be sent to imc-dc and the appropriate working group list (meetings should also be listed in the left column of the website). IMC events (like screenings) should be sent to imc-dc and imc-dc-announce.

Conflict: Personal arguments are not appropriate on lists. Anything that isn't relevant to the entire group should take place in emails to individuals, not to the list. If list discussion degenerates into personal arguments, attacks, or disrespectful comments, the moderator may give warnings to individuals or the entire list, and may also put the list on temporary "emergency moderation" to give people time to cool down.

Moderation

All lists will have open membership, except for imc-dc-abacus (a recent proposal set the guidelines for membership in imc-dc-abacus).

Imc-dc-announce will have full moderation, so that it can be kept low-volume.

Other lists should be set to member-only posting. This is what most lists are currently set to, and keeps spam off the lists. The moderator can approve any non-member posts which are relevant. The list interface makes it easy to set particular email addresses for automatic approval, if a non-member has reason to frequently post to a list.

The topic of the list should be on the list information page, and in the message sent to new list members. If someone makes an off-topic post, the moderator should remind them of what is on-topic for the list. If a person continually posts off-topic, the moderator has the discretion to set the list so that person's emails always need to be approved.

If list discussion degenerates into personal arguments, attacks, or disrespectful comments, the moderator may give warnings to individuals or the entire list, and may also put the list on temporary "emergency moderation" to give people time to cool down.