Welcome to the Leonenet, a free e-mail Discussion Listserv for discussing issues that are relevant to Sierra Leone. Subscription to this listserv is open to anyone with a valid e-mail address who is interested in discussing issues that affect Sierra Leone. Subscribers must identify themselves by name. There are no limitations on topic, detail, perspectives, number of postings except the following listed specifications.

Please review the following guidelines before writing a request for subscription.

TAMU & Leonenet Rules:

• No spam http://listserv.tamu.edu/nospam.html
• No objectionable language/material/content.
• No illegal material and activity: subscribers must not transmit unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, abusive or otherwise objectionable and harmful information of any kind on leonenet.
• No personal insults or obscenities can be directed at any subscriber, and Leonenet vigorously discourages gratuitous references to a subscriber's family, personal life or work that may cause embarassment, ridicule or constitute harassment.
• Subscribers are encouraged to send religious sermons, khutbahs and links to religious web sites to the technical administrators, who will post them on the leonenet web site under "religion" and provide the URL link to all leonenet subscribers. Repeated violations of this specification may be subject to the administrative procedures outlined below.
• Subscribers are encouraged to send analytical articles,
  creative writing, recipes, advertisement for travel and other
  services, and  documents or material not directly related to Sierra
  Leone to the technical administrators, who will post them on the web site.
• National and international news items are available from any of the news outlets on this web site. A daily digest of local and international news is distributed by the administrative team of leonenet. If a subscriber must re-post a news article to the listserv, she/he must add analytical commentary to that news item.

 

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Administration: Leonenet is administered by an administrative team that sets policies and mediates potential social issues that may arise on the forum. Technical administrators process user requests and maintain the listserv. For more detail on the administrative team, contact them at LEONENET-request@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU.

Administrative Procedures: Administrators will use the following procedure to resolve infractions of the TAMU and Leonenet specifications listed above:

• A general administrator will write a private e-mail to the offending party requesting moderation or a change in disposition on the part of the subscriber.
• If the first step fails to resolve the matter, the administrative team may submit a formal, public e-mail request for a change in disposition.
• If the second step fails, the administrative team will advise the technical administrator to actively but temporarily review and withhold ONLY e-MAILS THAT ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE SPECIFICATIONS. In other words, offensive e-mails from the subscriber will not be posted on the forum. All other unrelated e-mails from that subscriber will be posted to the forum as usual. The administrative team will, at this time, write to advise the subscriber of the consequences of further transgression.
• If all efforts at mediation fail, the subscriber's subscription may be withheld for time certain (as determined by the administrative team) and may be continually reviewed by the administrative team.
• Instances of offenses accrue and repeat offenses may be adjudged at the higher disciplinary level. For example, if a subscriber was cautioned at the second level, any instance of a future infraction will be treated at the third procedural level.

Reviews: Subscription policies may be reviewed by the administrative team.

 

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Leonenet Archives: To access leonenet archives, you must be a current subscriber and follow these instructions (for the first time as you set up access):

1. Go to http://listserv.tamu.edu/archives/leonenet.html
2. For the first time, TYPE IN YOUR e-MAIL ADDRESS in the Email dialog box and CLICK ON the hyperlink " get a new LISTSERV password first "
3. At this time, you will be prompted to TYPE IN YOUR e-MAIL ADDRESS, and then also TYPE IN A PASSWORD and then RECONFIRM THE PASSWORD. Once this is done, you will be notifed that an e-mail has been sent to you.
4. OPEN YOUR e-MAIL BOX and you will find a message there from the listserv. You will be asked to "point your browser to" a URL link that is given. That means CLICK ON THAT LINK. Your password is now confirmed.
5. Go back to the archives page http://listserv.tamu.edu/archives/leonenet.html  and click on the month you want to see eg. AUGUST 2004. CLICK ON THE MONTH. Type in your e-mail address and your password when prompted.

 

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Legal Disclaimer: Membership of this discussion list is voluntary. Individuals subscribe to the list with the unambiguous understanding that the list owners and the host institution (Texas A&M University) and her agents bear no legal responsibility for the language, material, and other content posted in this forum. Please read the CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSE in the welcome message. Especially, be mindful of the warning that you must NOT "forward copies of information you have obtained from it [the leonenet listserv] to third parties." Doing so jeopardizes your membership of the listserv. Subscribers can unsubscribe from leonenet at any time by sending a request to the technical administrator who will be expected to act on the request as soon as possible.