Subject: An email discussion list for Barnard, VT
Description:
The Barnard list is no longer active here
The Barnard list at Vital Communities closed on 10/27/2026. It moved to UVLists on 10/27/2026 and now operates as Barnard Discuss.
UVLists is a volunteer-run nonprofit that now operates Upper Valley community email lists. This is the continuation of the same community list, not an unrelated replacement.
What this means for subscribers
If you were subscribed when the old list closed, your subscription and individual-message or digest preference were transferred. You do not need to subscribe again.
When signing in to UVLists or creating an account, use the same email address where you received messages from the old list.
If you were not subscribed, you can join from the UVLists list page.
Messages sent to the old address, barnard@lists.vitalcommunities.org, are not forwarded or posted. Update your contacts and saved drafts to use barnard-discuss@lists.uvlists.org, and replace bookmarks to this page with the UVLists list page.
Use the list at UVLists
To post, email barnard-discuss@lists.uvlists.org .
To join, manage your subscription, change delivery preferences, or unsubscribe, visit the UVLists list page.
The complete archives, including messages from before the move, are available in the UVLists list archives. Access may require you to sign in.
To read the list information and posting guidelines, visit the UVLists information page.
For questions about list topics or moderation, email the barnard-discuss-owner@lists.uvlists.org .
Questions about the move?
Read about the move to UVLists, or email helpdesk@uvlists.org for transition or account help.
A word from Vital Communities: Vital Communities has been honored to have stewarded the Upper Valley town-based listservs and is glad to help with this transition so subscribers who want to keep participating in the town-based Listservs can do so. UVLists is an independent nonprofit recently formed by longtime volunteer list administrators. Although Vital Communities will no longer have an ongoing role in the town-based listservs, we wish UVLists the very best as it stewards this resource into the future.
Statement of Purpose
This email list is a discussion forum for topics specific to Barnard. It is not an 'official' list set up by the town government. It is open to anyone who wants to participate. Residents are encouraged to subscribe and post; non-residents may subscribe, but are asked not to post.
Posting Guidelines
Summary – Keep it Local, Keep it Civil, Limit Commercial Postings to Once a Month.
No anonymous posts – If your first and last name are not obvious from your email address, please sign your post.
The intent is to keep the discussion on and about Barnard. The issue doesn't need to be unique to Barnard, but it must be specific to Barnard. Subscribers to the list are assumed to be in agreement about that simple constraint. If in doubt about whether a topic is appropriate for our list, consider this: If there are other online forums, such as email lists, news groups or blogs that address your issue, please take your discussion to one of them.
Some examples:
Discussion of legislation in Concord/Montpelier or Washington is ok if it addresses a Barnard issue.
Discussion of national or state issues in the context of a warned town meeting resolution is ok.
Announcements for meetings, rallies or demonstrations in Barnard, or for car pools leaving from Barnard are ok.
Forwarding content of emails or web sites that are not related to Barnard is absolutely not ok.
Forwarding of copyrighted content is (obviously) not ok.
General Rules
This discussion list operates on the assumption that list postings will be civil and respectful to other list members. No abusive or threatening postings will be allowed. Anyone engaging in what the administration of Vital Communities considers to be abusive language or threats directed towards another list member may have posting privileges revoked.
Because this list is set up for the convenience of the community, occasional announcements from businesses in town are ok (for example, a new business in town, information about a business service offered in conjunction with a public event taking place in town, or a one-time listing about babysitting). In no case should any business (small or large) use the discussion list for frequent repetitive business promotion. Posting commercial announcements more often than monthly may annoy your neighbors and bring a warning from the list administrator.
In order to keep this discussion list useful and dynamic, there should be no verbatim forwarding of content that has already appeared elsewhere. If an article has appeared on the web that would be appropriate to reference in the context of a discussion on this list, please just include the address for the web page on which the article appears. the web page on which the article appears. (This may also be appropriate for lengthy blog-like posts that appear elsewhere – just summarize your point and link to the source.) It is inappropriate to post the content of any private correspondence to or from a list member without the express permission of all correspondents involved.
Please note that it is the intent of this discussion list to center on issues and events directly affecting this particular town. It is not a venue for general announcements about Upper Valley events from those not connected with the town. Occasional posts from contiguous towns are ok, but, in general, if you have an event or item of interest that might be relevant to multiple towns then please post it on the Upper Valley list. Subscribers who regularly post to multiple lists will be warned and eventually suspended.
The administration of Vital Communities reserves the right to warn, suspend, or permanently exclude any list subscriber for any abuse or infringement of these list rules and guidelines. To contact Vital Communities with comments or to bring specific issues to their attention, write to discussionlists@vitalcommunities.org .
Legal Disclaimer
Vital Communities does not control and assumes no legal or editorial responsibility for any content distributed through the community discussion lists. Content is generated by individual subscribers, who each bear responsibility for their individual postings. Content posted to the discussion lists is automatically distributed to the subscribers and Vital Communities cannot retract or modify any such content before it is sent to subscribers. All historical content is publicly accessible in the archives (Vital Communities can remove content from the archives after the fact upon request from the original poster). Volunteer individual discussion list administrators in each town are responsible for post-facto monitoring of the content of a town discussion list and may, at their own discretion, issue private warnings to individual subscribers or public guidelines to the entire discussion list if, in their sole judgment, any of the Posting Guidelines or General Rules are repeatedly violated.