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The ELinfonet (pronounced "ee el infonet") discussion list (the “DL”) is a forum for employment lawyers, benefits lawyers, immigration lawyers, corporate counsel and HR professionals who focus on workplace law and employee relations issues. As a cyber-water cooler, the DL offers an opportunity for practitioners to pose questions, offer advice, and share information. Discussion group participants determine the topics for discussion. Membership to the DL must be approved by elinfonet.com, LLC. Prospective members must either be lawyers focusing on workplace law issues, HR professionals or consultants who advise employers on employer/emloyee management issues. In addition, any lawyer seeking membership to the list, but first list in the elinfonet.com lawyer directory (there is a no charge membership level). The DL is a monitored but unmoderated list. This means that list members are expected to self-police and responsibly participate. Here are some simple rules which reflect the list's culture and expectations: 1. Only messages emanating from a subscribed address will be automatically distributed to the list. If you're subscribed as Joe@Lawyer.com, posts from an alternate address such as Joe@aol.com will not be automatically distributed to the list. If you have multiple addresses, consider subscribing from each, setting all but one to NOMAIL. 2. Introduce yourself by stating your name, where you work, and something interesting about your job and your life. We just want you to put a “face” to your email address. 3. List traffic will vary, but with active participation may amount to a large number of emails. Please be prepared to delete freely or use an email filter or separate email address for messages. 4. Be extremely judicious in your use of the "reply to all" button. If you are replying with a message that just says “thanks for the information,” a request to receive a copy of what someone has offered to share, or simply to agree with someone (such as “me, too”), do not reply to the entire group. Instead, send your response directly to the e-mail address of the person who posted the message. 5. Attachments, including business cards, are prohibited. Messages containing any kind of attachment will not be distributed to the list. 6. Use the "subject line" to concisely identify the message topic for your also-busy colleagues. Designate posts about non-legal or non-HR topics by adding OFF-TOPIC or WC ("Water Cooler") to the subject line. DO NOT SEND MESSAGES OF A POLITICAL OR PARTISAN NATURE! While we invite non-legal and non-HR topics, they must be of a general, benign nature (e.g., “Anyone know of a great sushi restaurant in Philadelphia?”). The are other forums for political and partisan discussions – this is NOT one of them. 7. Abbreviate original messages when one is posting a reply. Use <snip> to identify where unnecessary words were deleted. Do not post an entire e-mail only to add a short response. 8. Attorneys are solely responsible for ensuring that their messages meet all applicable ethical standards. It is your license that is on the line. 9. The list is not designed as a means for shameless self-promotion. Messages that are not content-driven will not be delivered. 10. Occasionally, list members have questions which they would like to post but for reasons of privacy prefer anonymity. The list manager may post those questions on behalf of list members. 11. Subscribers should post no more than five messages per day. When that threshold has been met, the message will not be processed, and it should be reposted after midnight. For this reason, subscribers should consider before posting whether a message should be distributed to the entire list or made privately. 12. Remember that all listserve exchanges become property of elinfonet.com, LLC. Remember that all listserve exchanges potentially can by read by anyone. Do not email anything that you would not want posted on the front page of the New York Times. 13. We will not tolerate abusive or otherwise inappropriate messages. We are the sole arbiter of what is acceptable! Your membership is at-will and can be terminated at any time. You are subject to the terms of use set forth on www.elinfonet.com/terms.php. Failure to heed the rules below may result in sanctions. a. Do not insult, berate, or personally attack other list members. Jokes which are prurient in nature, offensive or contain profanity shall not be posted. Do not send inflammatory messages or messages containing personal invective. Profanity, vulgarity, or derogatory, defamatory, abusive, threatening, offensive, and illegal remarks are inappropriate. Do not post any message, data, information, text or other material ("Content") that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive or otherwise injurious to third parties. Do not impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity or interfere with other users of this listserve. b. Commercial solicitations are prohibited. The DL shall not be used to advertise products or services unless such product or service is specifically approved. Commercial solicitations include, without limitation, messages offering or seeking any kind of business relationship, soliciting contributions, membership or subscription to any resource not offered by elinfonet.com, LLC. Posting of materials such as newsletters and related content, generated by a law firm, company or other entity is strongly discouraged. c. SPAM will not be sent and will result in immediate removal from the DL. d. Do not post personal email or posts made to other mailing lists without the express permission of the original e-mail’s author. e. Do not discuss fees for any legal services or any information that might be construed fixing, a boycott, an illegal restriction of free trade or any other antitrust violation. There should be no mention of one's hourly billing rate, gross fees for a task or project or another specific information relating to the pricing of legal services. This is not to say that all discussion of pricing or how one computes their fees using overhead and variables that differ with each individual is forbidden, but no dollar amounts should be mentioned in this regard. 14. The list manager reserves the right to impose sanctions, which include moderating a subscriber’s posts, suspension of posting privileges, and removal from the list for violation of list rules. Violators will be publicly warned. 15. Any requests regarding administrative tasks such as being added or removed from a list should be made to the appropriate area, not the list itself. 16. elinfonet.com, LLC provides the facilities for the DL and no approval or endorsement by elinfonet.com, LLC of any messages posted on the DL should be implied therefrom. Elinfonet.com, LLC does not review the background of any member of this listserve, nor does it determine whether an attorney is in good standing in any jurisdiction. 17. And now for the legal stuff: By subscribing to the DL, users agree to the terms and conditions contained in these guidelines and those set forth on http://www.elinfonet.com/terms.php. These guidelines may be modified from time to time and such modifications shall be effective upon their posting to the DL. Users of the DL may be held individually liable for any communications they send through the listserve, including but not limited to defamatory, discriminatory, antitrust, anti-competitive, false or unauthorized information. Users of the DL also must comply with all state and federal copyright, trademark and patent laws and regulations. By posting material on this listserve, the posting party warrants and represents that it owns the copyright with respect to such material or has received permission from the copyright owner. Do not post information that is not original unless it meets the ‘fair use’ guidelines of copyright law, or unless the user has received permission to reproduce such information from the original source. If there is any question as to whether a particular transmission contains information in violation of federal copyright law, the user should not post that information to this listserve. By using the DL, users agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless, elinfonet.com, LLC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and parent from and against all loss, claims, demands, causes of action, liabilities, expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees and costs arising from any claim arising out of or resulting from in whole or part any breach of these guidelines by the user or any omission or act taken by the user. In no event will the Division be responsible to the users for any indirect, consequential, special or punitive damages or losses users may incur in connection with this listserve or any of the data or other materials transmitted through or residing on this listserve, even if the Division has been advised of the possibility of such damage or loss. Elinfonet.com, LLC ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OPINIONS AND/OR INFORMATION POSTED ON OR THROUGH THIS LISTSERVE. Elinfonet.com, LLC may, but does not assume the obligation to, monitor discussions taking place through the DL. Elinfonet.com, LLC reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to investigate any violation of these guidelines. ELinfonet.com, LLC may remove any user from the DL for violation of these guidelines. The list manager is Patrick Della Valle. He can be reached at pdv@elinfonet.com or by phone at (570) 408-9840.
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