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With this program, we hope to teach and train interested citizens about the natural resources of Illinois. This corps of well-educated volunteers will provide education, outreach and service toward the beneficial management and conservation of natural resources in east-central Illinois.
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Extension List Usage Guidelines
Last updated March 20, 2015
- Uses of the list
Masternaturalists is a non-public, controlled-subscription list created for the University of Illinois Extension's Master Naturalist program.
Masternaturalists is open for posting to all subscribers for discussion of MN- and naturalist-related topics. Trainees are automatically subscribed every year but subscription is voluntary.
All official Master Naturalist program communications are sent via the moderated MN-Announce mailing list to which all active Master Naturalists are subscribed.
- Requesting Email Address Updates
Please route all changes through your program coordinators so they can keep the directory up-to-date. When changing email addresses, please include your old one so that it can be removed.
- Posting Guidelines
- Please practice good email habits. Make your subject line descriptive of post content. This is particularly important because it helps distinguish your message from spam.
- Where possible, cite references or sources
for horticultural information you post.
- To share photos, make sure they are of appropriate size for email. If you can, link to photos on Flickr or similar free photo sites.
- Be aware that if you use fancy backgrounds and formatting or elaborate signatures in your messages, it may cause delivery problems (spamcanning) or problems for recipients with older computers and email programs.
- Always get permission from the sender
before quoting text from private email.
- Please move longer discussions of limited interest to the larger
group to private email.
- Members of this list are expected to observe commonly held and
understood rules for behavior in an electronic forum. In other words,
play nicely with the other children.
- Advertising: plant sales, etc.
Commercial advertising is not permitted. This means any advertising that promotes a business or money-making hobby posted by someone affiliated with same.
It is acceptable to publicize the following
types of non-commercial or private sales:
- giveaways or private plant sales (aka
Support The Habit sales)
- fundraising plant sales by non-profit
organizations (e.g. Herb Society, Grand Prairie Friends, etc.) or student clubs.
- Shoppers' alert
Although commercial advertising as such is not allowed, it is
acceptable to post recommendations or a shoppers' alert for local or online
commercial nurseries, garden centers, plant sources, etc. provided you are
not affiliated with the business in question.
- Sale or trade of personal garden items; requests for recommendations
You may
post personal garden items for sale or trade. Please add FOR SALE,
WANTED, or TRADE to the subject line. You may also post requests for recommendations of local services.
- Political Advocacy
You are participating in this list in your capacity as a University Extension volunteer. In this capacity, political advocacy of any kind is inappropriate, no matter how worthy the cause.
If you have news of an event of other information that you think would be of interest to others, please send it to your program coordinator who will determine whether it is appropriate for the list.
- When in doubt, ask
Please address any questions about appropriate list usage to Karen
Fletcher (Listmom) at kefletcher@gmail.com or your program coordinator.
- Subscribers may be moderated, suspended or removed from
the list at the administrators' discretion for the following
reasons:
- The subscriber is not an active Master Naturalist.
- The subscriber's e-mail address is causing
delivery failures.
- The subscriber's e-mail address has posted malware to the list.
- The subscriber chooses not to abide by the list
guidelines set out above.
Special email security note from your Listmom
Cybercrime is big business and spam and scams are with us to stay. Whenever you see a note to your list with LISTMOM in the subject line, please take a moment to read it. I will be advising you of current security issues affecting the Extension lists and its subscribers.
The lists are configured to deflect the worst instances of email with bad intent. There are, however, circumstances in which an email is being sent from the compromised account of a valid subscriber and will come through to a list.
In other cases, you and others on the list may receive individual (non-list) email that appears to be from someone you know. Often when an email account is compromised, the account's whole contact list is used to send out email. This is why bad stuff can appear to come from someone you know. You may see:
- run of the mill spam - I want to sell you something and separate you from your money
- malware spam - I want to infect your computer and steal your login credentials and separate you from your money or, less frequently, just mess up your computer
- scams - I want you to believe my story and separate you from your money
Be wary of the following:
- Vague subject lines, e.g. 'check this out", "this is interesting", etc.
- Minimal or no message content except a link
- Any attached files that you are not expecting (check with the sender or check it out online if it appears to be from a business or government agency)
- Any email that asks you to update any account information. You may be tricked by a convincing lookalike site.
Remember, email can appear to be from someone you know or from a company or bank you do business with.
Please follow safe computing practices. Use strong passwords, don't reuse passwords for high security accounts, and have a good anti-malware (aka anti-virus) program that monitors and protects your computer.
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