MAGPS’ listserv provides an open forum for MAGPS members to dialogue with other members is a great medium with which to solicit the advice of your peers, benefit from their experience, and participate in an ongoing conversation. We hope MAGPS’ listserv will provide a useful and informative means of communicating with your fellow MAGPS members! 

Lively and candid exchanges are encouraged; however as with any community, there are also rules governing the forum. For instance, violating antitrust laws, libeling others, selling, and marketing are not permissible. Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important rules and etiquette. If you have questions, please contact MAGPS directly at webmaster@magps.org. 

Listserv Etiquette and Rules

• Don’t challenge or attack others. The discussions on the lists are meant to stimulate conversation, not create contention. Let others have their say, just as you may.

• Be courteous.

• Email is not confidential. Any clinical information should be thoroughly cleansed of identifying information before being posted. Please do not transmit any content that you do not have a right to transmit.

• Sharing or exchanging information about fees charged in a member's practice may be an antitrust law violation, as price-fixing, and therefore is prohibited. 

• All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials are prohibited. Do not transmit any content that is defamatory, vulgar, or illegal. Discussion as to whether a particular individual should be expelled from MAGPS membership is also prohibited.

• Remember that MAGPS and other email list participants have the right to reproduce postings to the listserv. 

• Include a signature tag on all messages. Include your name, affiliation, location, and email address. 

• State concisely and clearly the specific topic of the comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond more appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.

• Do not post commercial messages. This includes workshops, books, offices for rent, tapes, new groups and supervision offered. Any use of the listserv for commercial purposes threatens the organization’s non-profit tax status. Contact people directly with products and services that you believe would help them. 

• Send messages such as "thanks for the information" or "me, too" to individuals - not to the entire list. Do this by scrolling down to the links at the bottom of the message where you can reply to the individual directly.

Disclaimer and legal rules 

MAGPS’ Listserv is provided as a service of the Mid-Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society. MAGPS accepts no responsibility for the opinions and information posted on this site by others. 

Under no circumstances will MAGPS be liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content transmitted via the Listserv. 

MAGPS does not actively monitor the site for inappropriate postings and does not on its own undertake editorial control of postings. However, in the event that any inappropriate posting is brought to MAGPS’ attention, MAGPS will take all appropriate action. MAGPS reserves the right to terminate access to any user who does not abide by these guidelines. 

Citation: Adapted from AGPA’s My Communities Listserv Etiquette and Rules.