CHARTER OF VETPROF MAILING LIST
PURPOSE: The VETPROF mailing list provide an electronic forum for veterinarians, physicians, and professionals in related fields to discuss topics of interest in veterinary medicine. The forum has been in existence since 1995 when it started as the VETPLUS-L e-mail list.
Subscription is limited to clinicians or students in veterinary and human medicine, and to professionals in related veterinary fields.
The list is intended for professional scientific discussion. The forum is not intended for product endorsements or advertisements, except as for periodic announcements from forum sponsors sent by the list owners. The forum is not intended for lay persons looking for advice concerning individual pet health problems. People who abuse membership privileges will be asked to leave the list.
PRIVACY STATEMENT: The required application information is for the sole use of the list owners in determining qualifications for list membership. The list owners will keep individual information confidential. It will not be given out or sold to any entity. Only statistical summary information will be used to inform others about the nature of our list.
New subscribers who meet the eligibility requirements in the PURPOSE above will be added to the list for a six month trial period. Membership beyond the first six months is contingent on paying an annual contribution to help us keep the list going, currently $25 US. For students and instances in which $25/year creates a true financial hardship, no contribution is required.
Much more detailed information is available in the FAQ frequently asked questions list.
DISCLAIMER: VETPROF is a private mailing list. In general, posts to the list are not edited, moderated, or checked for accuracy by any list owners. By joining the list and receiving messages, participants agree not to hold liable any list member or administrator for damages, including any resulting from participation in the forum. Participation includes but is not limited to receiving messages from the list, reading messages transmitted by the forum, sending messages to the forum, and making any contacts based upon information transmitted by the forum. The content of the forum is intended to be read only by medical professionals. No message or portion of any message can be re-distributed or given to any person not on the lists without the express consent of the person who posted the message. While we do our best to screen members for appropriate credentials to join our list, we still have seen the occasional anxious client or persistent vendor slip through, thus list members should not assume 100% security that list items won't end up off the list.
GUIDELINES: The list owners will attempt to educate list members on the proper use of e-mail programs as necessary. However, individuals who continually misdirect personal electronic mail responses or LISTSERV commands to the whole list may be removed. Postings to the list will be encouraged to be of general interest to the members at large, and it is requested that they are written in a manner that all list members will feel included in the forum.
The owners, moderators, and other administrators reserve the right to remove any list member from the forum at their discretion, without notice, at any time, for any reason. This may include the removal of any member who consistently deviates from the list PURPOSE, uses the list for commercial purposes, slanders a person or makes libelous statements, or uses language in such a way that is offensive in the judgement of the list owners. People who persistently transmit messages deemed to be inappropriate in content, tone, or formatting by the list owners are subject to expulsion from the forum.
If you are interested in joining the forum, please fill out the application form at http://vetprof.com/app.html using a web browser that supports forms (Netscape 2.0 or later recommended). If you are unable to complete the web-based form, please email VETPROF managers for an e-mail-based form.
Submission of the application information constitutes an agreement to the terms of membership and the above policies. The supplied information will be kept in a private and secure database that is completely separate and autonomous from other forum files. The supplied information will be used only by direction of the list owners and managers for purposes of list demographics. The data may be used only in statistical analyses of list membership.
We look forward to welcoming you to the list.
Best regards,
Jeff Parke, DVM, MS
Allan Berger, DVM, PhD
email VETPROF managers
(listowners)