Statement of Purpose
This email list is topics specific and relevant to Strafford, VT. Itis meant to inform the residents of Strafford about events, issues, and opportunities taking place in or pertaining specifically to Strafford. This can include events and opportunities in neighboring towns, at the discretion of the List Manager.
Posting Guidelines
- Keep It Local: Posts must be specific and relevant to Strafford
- Keep It Civil: Personal attacks and disrespectful tone and language will not be tolerated
- Keep It Concise: 300 words or less is ideal
- Limit Commercial Postings to once a month
- Sign Your Posts with your first and last names
Some examples:
- Discussion of legislation in Concord/Montpelier or Washington is ok if it addresses a Strafford 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 Strafford, or for car pools leaving from Strafford, are ok.
- Forwarding content of emails or websites that are not related to Strafford is not ok.
- Forwarding of copyrighted content is not ok.
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 one of the Upper Valley lists. Learn more at vitalcommunities.org/community-discussion-lists.
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 All historical content is publicly accessible in the archives (Vital Communities can remove content from the archives after the fact upon request from the original poster).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.