PedTalk Rules and Regulations
By signing up to PedTalk, you agree to abide by its rules and regulations.
PedTalk is not designed for personal medical advice or for seeking medical information on a particular patient. General clinical discussions are encouraged, however. PedTalk rejects approximately 5 posts a day from individuals seeking medical advice. When it comes to seeking medical advice, PCC and PedTalk have one suggestion: GO TO YOUR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL.
PedTalk is presently open to anyone and everyone who would like to talk about pediatric related issues. This is not a list for professionals only. There are dozens of other pediatric-specific mailing lists to which such discussions may be directed.
To write a message to everybody on the PedTalk list, just send email to "pedtalk@pcc.com." Remember, you must be a member of the PedTalk list in order to send a message to it.
If you have other questions about the PedTalk mailing list send a message to "pedtalk-owner@pcc.com" or consult our list of frequently asked questions about PedTalk.
To unsubscribe from PedTalk, simply send a message to "pedtalk-request@pcc.com" with the phrase "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. DO NOT send unsubscribe messages to "pedtalk@pcc.com." If you have difficulty unsubscribing, send email to "pedtalk-owner@pcc.com."
Like all mailing lists, PedTalk expects all of its guests to follow the common rules of Web etiquette. Instances of "bad behavior" — defined loosely as rude or insulting posts, advertising, or excessive non-topical posting -- will be given a single warning. A second instance will lead to automatic expulsion from the list. SPAMers get no warnings at all.
COMMERCIAL SOLICITATION IS NOT ALLOWED on the PedTalk mailing list. Announcements of, say, relevant WWW pages, pointers to off-PedTalk information, or clarifications of factual issues are tolerated, but requested to be kept to a minimum. Of course, discussions of commercial interests among people not representing those interests are encouraged.
Discussions of potentially offensive subjective subjects — such as religion or politics - are not allowed, EXCEPT as they relate directly to pediatrics. Inflammatory comments, insults, deragatory remarks, or overt espousing of one practice over another will not be tolerated. No, we're not PC. We're just trying to maintain a polite mailing list.
DO NOT send binaries or attachments and DO NOT encode your messages with HTML or richtext. Such messages sent to PedTalk will be rejected by the PedTalk server.
PedTalk is not designed to be a private list; its archives are veiwable by anyone. However, only members of PedTalk can post to the group and only members of PedTalk can see who other members are. As such, forwarding PedTalk messages to non-PedTalk members is not allowed without the expressed permission of the original author. Please follow this rule, as it always upsets people when you don't!
IMPORTANT NOTE: PedTalk is not intended to provide individual clinical advice, particularly to non-medical professionals. Specifically, we wish to avoid messages like, "I've just been diagnosed with XXXXX - what do I do?" or "Please help save this child in YYYYY..." or "My son's doctor told me this ... what should I do?" While those are important questions and issues, PedTalk is not an appropriate forum for them. Requests of this nature will lead to immediate exclusion from the list.
This discussion forum is not intended as and should not be construed as a consultancy nor as advice on a particular patient or patient care. It is a forum for the dissemination and development of general medical knowledge. Please do not rely on these comments to make specific patient care decisions, and do not include printed versions of these comments in any patient's medical record.
If you do not understand why this limit is being placed on the list, please send mail to "pedtalk-owner@pcc.com" to discuss the issue; DO NOT send such messages to the list.
When you read an email message from somebody who wrote to the PedTalk list, doing the usual reply to the message will send your reply directly to that person. If you want to reply to everyone on the list, you will have to use the group reply command.
