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Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list Bulletin No. 0-001 -- Fri 14 Jan 2000 CLERGY/LEADERS' MAIL-LIST (CLM) OPERATIONAL INFORMATION Items: 1. General 2. A few technicalities 3. All those codes and numbers! 4. Categories 5. Submissions 6. Copyright 7. Security 8. What we DON'T need -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. General The title, Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list, defines the target audience and content, and should not deter anybody at all from subscribing to the list who believes they would find it helpful. Our intention is to send a variety of five or six postings a week, although circumstances may sometimes prevent that being achieved. CLM was founded in October 1995 by Rowland Croucher, Director of John Mark Ministries . Rowland is a regular contributor and a frequent 'sourcer'. CLM operates independently but under the general aegis of JMM, and using the server facilities of PastorNET. CLM is distributed at no cost to subscribers. The list moderator, Ron Clough, acts honorarily and absorbs personally the online costs. ======================= 2. A few technicalities Messages are sent in standard 7-bit ASCII format, so as to be acceptable to all servers and computers anywhere. They are composed or reformatted as far as possible to fit 68 monospaced characters to a line, to minimise loss of format or breaking up in the recipient's viewer. Our preference is always for brevity in postings, but obviously on a list like this, some topics have to be treated at greater length. We will never knowingly send a message longer than 20kb, which is a maximum size allowed by some servers. Where necessary, we will split the occasional long item into parts. ======================= 3. All those codes and numbers! ---------- CLM-0-123 x Subject . . . . . . appears on the regular CLM postings. The '-0-' is for the year 2000, so in 2001 it will be '-1-'. (Let's not worry about 2010+: even if CLM is still going then, the medium will undoubtedly be quite different.) '123' is the sequence within the year - apart from helping our systems, it lets you see immediately if you are missing a posting. (You may or may not be surprised at how many messages are returned to us at any one time with a 'permanent fatal error' address, only to be resurrected again within a day or so - in the meantime the addressee loses the message.) If you send a message to with a subject: Re-send CLM-0-123 (or whatever), we will oblige. 'x' is the category of the message (according to the moderator) ---------- CLB-0-123 Bulletin: Subject . . . . . . functions likewise for bulletins to the list, giving operational or administrative information, news and other snippets that do not warrant a 'CLM' posting to the list. ---------- CLE 123 is used for 'extra' messages if there are additional, specialised or longer postings on a topic that would not necessarily interest the whole list. --------- CLR 123 is used for 'repeat' postings of earlier list messages. ======================= 4. Categories a - apologetics & social issues; b - Bible studies; d - devotional; e - evangelism; f - family issues; g - general; i - illustrations; l - leadership issues; m - missions; p - practical Christian living; r - reviews; s - sermon/notes; t - theology. (We know 'h - humour' isn't there: we'll explain why some time.) ======================= 5. Submissions We welcome submissions from list members, particularly original material. You will appreciate however that it is a moderated list and, of necessity, the need to be rather selective for reasons apart from 'quality control'. That's because of the small number of postings each week, for balance in their scope and content, and the fact that CLM is pro-active in sourcing material in any case. If you are submitting copied material, we will need to know the author and/or source and that use such as on CLM is permitted, unless it is obviously public domain. We reserve the right to (sub)edit and reformat material that we use. We often need to replace generic or working titles with something more specific or interesting. We do not however attempt to achieve consistency of spelling, capitalisation or usage across the whole list, but generally leave the style adopted by the author. Clearly, CLM is not a discussion type list. Should you wish to take up a point from a posting (graciously!), we suggest you do so direct with the author where that is possible, copying to if you wish. If some form of followup seems desirable, we can consider that through CLB or CLE, or CLM if it will be in the general interests of the list. If you are sending a message from your e-mail editor/composer, it will help greatly if it is in plain text and not RTF, HTML or 'quoted-printable'. The same applies if sending, enclosing or attaching a file from your word processor. (Go to 'Save As' and select DOS ASCII Text or equivalent in the 'File Type' box.) If that's all too hard, then we'll probably manage, but text is so much quicker to use, being the end product, and we are very cautious about opening attachments without pre-arrangement. And the appreciative comments we receive from time to time are a great encouragement. ======================= 6. Copyright Unless there is a statement to the contrary, you may take it that permission has been granted for anything sent on CLM to be reproduced for non-commercial, free distribution, **provided that** authorship and/or source and copyright notices are included. As mentioned above, we need the same for submissions to the list. However, 'author/source unknown' is acceptable where there has been a credible effort made to check it out. We are always grateful to receive further information you may have about authorship or sources of postings made to the list. We give contact and subscription details for some of the other lists and ministries whose material we use from time to time. We do so in appreciation and acknowledgement, and because list members may well be interested in receiving such material regularly. Those notices are not paid or gratis advertisements. ======================= 7. Security The CLM list of addresses is used only by this list, and will not be made available to anybody else. We are of course very keen to see the list multiply and appreciate the efforts of those who introduce CLM to others. Occasionally, a list member asks us to add somebody else to the list. Because of anti-spam protocols, we far prefer that people subscribe themselves direct. Where that may not be possible, we need to know that the proposed recipient is aware of the subscription request. Failing all else, we will send a message to the target address, advising who made the request, and how to unsubscribe if so desired. ======================= 8. What we DON'T need Please, no messages about ****VIRUS ALERT!!!!!!!!!! Send this to EVERYBODY you know without even stopping to think about it!!!!!**** or any of those other bleeding heart, hoax or chain letters. Some sensitive souls, whilst doubtful, feel it can't do any harm to send them on. Well, it can ... but that's another story. ======================= We count it a real privilege to serve our Lord and his people through the ministry of CLM. Your support in prayer is vital. May the joy of the Lord be your strength. (Nehemiah 8:10) Grace and peace. Ron Clough (Moderator, Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list) ------------------------------ End of Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list Bulletin No. 0-001 ********************************************************* ____________________________ Clergy/Leaders' Mailing List (Moderated) This mailing list is open to all Christians via Internet e-mail. Submissions welcome: (in DOS ASCII Text format please if 'attached' or 'imported') To subscribe, e-mail to: clergy-request@pastornet.net.au with SUBJECT reading SUBSCRIBE To unsubscribe, e-mail to: clergy-request@pastornet.net.au with SUBJECT reading UNSUBSCRIBE Copyright: Postings may be re-sent ONLY with all copyright notifications intact.

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