The Congregation Shearith Israel ListServ is dedicated to providing news and open discussions to the members of the congregation. This list is specifically for the use of Congregation Shearith Israel members and is not open to the general public.

All requests to join the listserv will be approved by the synagogue staff before being allowed to access the listserv.

Policy on Attachments
Due to the prevalence of viruses and worms, e-mail attachments are discouraged on this Listserv. This includes any graphics or media files you may embed in an e-mail message. There is a 50K file size limit for each e-mail.

If you wish to share a graphic or media file with the list, we suggest that it be posted on a web site and that you send the URL. If you wish to share an announcement from a word-processor file, we suggest that you cut and paste the text into an e-mail message.

If you have spam filtering included as part of your email package, you will need to add the name of the list in your approved list.

Etiquette
Since this listserv is to be used by the general shul membership, we wish to promote a respectful and courteous tone on all messages. The following guidelines should be adhered to when posting messages.

• Use appropriate language - All users of the listserv will see all messages sent. Please make sure that only appropriate language is used.
• Refrain from personal attacks - We hope to maintain a courteous and respectful tone. If you disagree with another member's posting please state why you disagree with the content of the posting without the use of offensive language.
• Stay on topic - Postings should only be related to the business of the particular listserv.
• Quote selectively - When replying to a message, please quote only the portions of the original message which are appropriate to your reply.
• Send unformatted text e-mail - Some e-mail packages such as Outlook, Netscape Messenger or Eudora allow you to boldface, italicize or change the color of the e-mail text. These format changes actually add HTML tags to your message, and not all e-mail packages can read them. As a result, some e-mail packages will receive your messages as semi-gibberish text with HTML tags.