This discussion forum provides an opportunity for everyone to exchange their views and research on substantive issues in human rights. This forum brings together a community of scholars, practitioners, students and others to take part in a dialogue and debate about human rights issues.
If you are interested in joining this discussion forum, please send an email to apsahumanrights@yahoo.com Please include your name, contact information, profession or affiliation in that email. You will then receive a confirmation and will be added to the discussion forum in a few day. You must also comply with the discussion forum rules that are set by Antigona Kukic and Mohammad Faridi (the organizers of this forum), which are listed below. We hope that you will take part in what we expect will be an informative and incisive dialogue.
Discussion Forum Guidelines
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- Sign off before your system or e-mail address changes,
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temporarily if it isn't.
Many long-running listserves such as INT-LAW, and the ASILforum have a particularly useful set of good practices that this discussion forum has also adapted.
1. Please include your name and e-mail address in the body of your message to ensure that it is always clear who a message is from.
2. Use this forum only for messages to the whole group. Do not send a message to a specific person via this forum. Do not post personal messages to the entire list.
3. DO put in your subject line brief but distinctive phrases to help the other subscribers decide quickly whether or not they are interested in the posting.
4. When responding, DO retain only lines in the original message that you are responding to. Delete any lines that are not pertinent to your response.
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8. NO spamming. While most of these can be filtered, every now and then one will get through. Just ignore it. Responding will just make the situation worse. Usually spammers are not subscribed or will quickly unsubscribe, therefore they will not read your public protests. If you can't ignore it, then send your protest message directly to the sender and/or to the spammer's service provider.
9. NO chain letters. Deal with them in the same manner as with spams.
10. NO flaming. If a flame gets posted, do use with indifference or deal with in the same manner as spams. Akin to this is abusive and derogatory language.
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12. Using your mailer's autoresponder and sending attachments can both cause problems. DON'T let this feature apply to this discussion forum mail. When it is applied, the list owners are sent these automatic replies. They are unnecessary and a terrible waste of resources.
13. For a variety of reasons (like changed addresses where the subscriber didn't bother to sign off under the old address, full mailboxes, one's local system having problems, etc.), the discussion forum mail intended for you may start becoming undeliverable. The list owners are sent an error report for each of these undeliverable messages and for each subscriber. To stem the tide, the corresponding subscribers will need to be removed as quickly as possible. To cut down on the error reports please DO