Site Policies

• Is false or misleading;
• Is implicitly or explicitly offensive, such as content that engages in, endorses or promotes racism, bigotry, discrimination, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
• Harasses, incites harassment or advocates harassment of any group or individual;
• Involves the transmission of “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing or “spamming;”
• Involves, promotes or endorses false or misleading information or illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
• Involves, promotes or endorses an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing or making available pirated computer programs or links to them, providing or making available information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing or making available pirated music or other media or links to pirated music or other media files;
• Contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images;
• Displays or links to pornographic, indecent or sexually explicit material of any kind;
• Provides or links to material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual, violent or other manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
• Provides instructional information about illegal activities or other activities prohibited by these Terms of Use, including without limitation, making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, providing or creating computer viruses or pirating any media;
• Solicits passwords or personal identifying information from other users;
• Harms or attempts to harm the community or its users in any way;
• Charges others for any use of the community;
• Collects or attempts to collect information about others in any way without their consent; or
• Modifies, alters, copies or otherwise changes the programming or features of the community.

Guidelines

• Respect the purpose of the community.  Use this platform to share successes, challenges, constructive feedback, questions, and goals instead of vendor products or services.  If you’ve found a product or service helpful, please share your experience with the group in a respectful manner.
• Respect others and focus on the content of posts and not on the people making them.  Please extend the benefit of the doubt to new members.
• Do not promote meetings, publications or products/services for groups outside of AAPLCP.
• Do not self-promote your own research or publications.  Other members can post about your research or publications, if it is of benefit to other community members. 
• Use caution when discussing products.  Information posted on the discussion groups is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
• Respect intellectual property.  Post content that you have personally created or have permission to use and have properly attributed to the content creator.
• When posting items in our collaborative environment, please indicate if the item is not available for reuse. It’s also advisable to contact the owner of any material if you would like to reuse it.
• Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate group(s).  This helps ensure all messages receive the best response by eliminating "noise."

Group Etiquette

• The posting of jobs or paid positions on this platform is currently prohibited. 
• State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.
• Send messages such as "thanks for the information" to individuals, not to the entire list. Do this by using the "Reply to Sender" link in every message.
• Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. If you are changing email addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address. Simply change your settings.