<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> The Celiac Listowners are pleased to announce that the List now has 1100 subscribers from 24 countries. You, the individual members, provide the spirit that allows us to continue to grow and to spread knowledge about celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis, wheat allergies, and associated diseases or problems. All of the List's reference files are designed to assist each person in improving their quality of life. These files were mentioned in the welcome message and when updated or placed on the system, an announcement like this will give details on their subject matter. For more details on these files and how to obtain them, send a message to: [log in to unmask] The message should contain this line: INDEX CELIAC Subscribers are asked to think about the destination of all replies. The system is set up to return replies to all subscribers. But based upon the subject matter this may not be appropriate. In those cases it might be better to reply directly to the poster with a message with the same subject. When posters receive replies that are of general interest, please summarize them back to the List for everyone's benefit. When replying to the List, please use selected quoting to allow new readers to follow a train of thought without reading the complete text of the previous message. Reposting a message with the header and disclaimer notice is a waste of our collective time and the resources provided to us so generously by St. Johns University. The listserv software gives the listowners the ability to intercept any particular subscriber's posts, and review them prior to their being posted to the List. Theoretically, we would like to stop all posts which are obviously wrong (i.e. a command, a mistake, etc.), off-topic (e.g about the weather, not about celiac), or on a very frequently answered question (in which case the Listowner would provide the answer). As a practical matter, the listowners do not have the time to review every post. Therefore, CELIAC is unmoderated. However, there are exceptions which we have chosen to make, solely in order to improve the quality of our list. They are discussed below: The first post from each new subscriber is reviewed for the above errors, because it has been our experience that new subscribers are more likely to not fully understood how to use the listserv commands, and/or may not have read the FAQ and Welcome Message. Once a subscriber has made a non-problematic post, that subscriber's status is generally changed to NOREVIEW. This means all future posts go straight through to the List. Very rarely, an individual will be placed on REVIEW status after they make one or more posts which are clearly inappropriate for the List. This is the principal way the Listowners can enforce the rules which are outlined in the Welcome Message. Fortunately, this has been an extremely rare occurrence. The Listowners' use of this authority has been, and will continue to be strictly limited. We intend to err on the side of not reviewing subscribers. If a post is reviewed, we intend to err on the side of not requesting a change. If a reviewed post is delayed, the author is always given an explanation, and requested to resubmit the post after making the specified changes. Finally, everyone should be reminded that because our list is unmoderated, if you are intending to follow the advice of any particular post, please be sure to verify it beforehand for you medical situtation! For the Listowners Michael Jones ([log in to unmask])