SCI now uses Google Groups for its email, and has consolidated all its email lists into one for the time being. A Google account is not needed to send or receive emails to the list. To send a message out to the membership, simply send the email to scimembers@googlegroups.com.

The email list is a moderated list, so your email won’t be sent out instantly. As a reminder, this remains a voluntary email list and you may unsubscribe anytime via the option at the bottom of any email sent on this list. You may also send an email to thesocietyofcomposers@gmail.com and simply request to be removed. For the time being, this will be the only SCI email list, so we strongly recommend remaining subscribed. We will be creating an additional email list in the near future that contains all members and is synonymous with membership.

RSS Feeds

SCI has made available an RSS feed for viewing messages posted to all three of SCI’s mailing lists. To subscribe to the RSS feeds, point your reader to the following addresses:

• http://www.societyofcomposers.org/lists/scimembers.rss for the scimembers feed.
• http://www.societyofcomposers.org/lists/scibiglist.rss for the scibiglist feed.
• http://www.societyofcomposers.org/lists/scistudents.rss for the scistudents feed.

SCIMEMBERS Terms of Participation

General Information

The Society of Composers, Inc., provides an email list service to members titled, SCIMEMBERS. A moderated list, SCIMEMBERS provides opportunities for members to interact with fellow members through email.

Conduct

SCIMEMBERS encourages lively and intellectually challenging exchanges of ideas. Members are encouraged to exchange ideas and discuss issues related to music and aesthetics, respond to threads started by other members, and to post concert announcements.

Members are encouraged to announce concerts, recording releases, and events that feature music by SCI members on SCIMEMBERS.

Participants are expected to restrict their messages to the scope of the list, to follow generally accepted principles of etiquette, and to respect the interests and rights of other participants and of the Society of Composers, Inc.
At all times, members are expected to engage in professional communication always respectful of differing points of view.
Participants are prohibited from posting defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal material on SCIMEMBERS. Participants who engage in such actions will be removed from SCIMEMBERS. Although SCIMEMBERS is a moderated forum, participants are solely responsible for their postings, and participants should be aware that all posts to SCIMEMBERS are not retractable. Additionally, all posts will be publicly viewable and are not confidential.

Due to the anti-spam configurations on our server, all emails including replies sent to SCIMEMBERS must be signed with a name and an email address. This is to ensure that posters to SCIMEMBERS are accurately identified.  If you wish to write an individual response to a post, please contact the author’s email address.

SCI reserves the right to block or permanently remove participants for violating the copyright of others or for any other actions that do not conform to these Terms of Participation. Punitive action is rare and generally follows warnings and persistent disregard for these Terms of Participation.

List Ownership

SCIMEMBERS is owned by the Society of Composers, Inc. The SCI Executive Committee is charged with setting policy on the list. The SCIMEMBERS moderator, reporting to the SCI Executive Committee, oversees the daily operations of SCIMEMBERS.

SCIMEMBERS moderator: Gerald Warfield secretary@societyofcomposers.org.

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed on SCIMEMBERS do not necessarily represent those of SCI and are not endorsed by SCI.