As of July 2005,
Only TCCC members can post to the TCCC mailing list directly. Nonmembers, who wish to post their messages have two options: (1) become a list member, or (2) send the messages to the TCCC secretary, who may periodically process them and post them on the TCCC mailing list. Due to a resource limitation, one can expect the period to be no more frequent than once every week.
As of 2002,
TCCC mailing list is to be used for IEEE COMSOC related business, especially for IEEE COMSOC meetings and conference information, IEEE COMSOC CFPs in addition to technical discussions and dissemination of TCCC minutes and announcements.
The IEEE Communications Society's Board of Governors in its June, 2002 meeting in NYC, discussed the proper use of the mailing lists and approved several motions in that regard. A copy of the minutes from that meeting can be downloaded here.
The TCCC established a formal agreement with ACM SIGCOMM on mailing list cross-posting. TCCC members interested in posting TCCC-sponsored conference call for papers are encouraged to contact SIGCOMM Information Services Director, Andreas Terzis at terzis@caymas.com.
At Infocom'96, the following wording was agreed upon:The TCCC electronic mailing list is for discussion of a technical nature, or issues related to TCCC business.The following amendment was agreed upon in May 1999:
Faculty positions as well as post-doctoral, graduate and under-graduate student positions, and summer internships can be posted on the TCCC mailing list without consulting the TCCC chair, provided they are in areas that are likely to be of interest to TCCC members. If in doubt regarding the latter point, please check first with the TCCC chair.Messages you send to the mailing list are immediately distributed to the list of approximately 2200 members of the TCCC, without further editing by anybody. Thus, some care is advised.The TCCC mailing list is also open to other postings of potential interest to its members, which include job offers, and RFIs or RFPs in areas of technical interest to TCCC members. Those may be publicized on the TCCC mailing list, provided that such requests are first cleared with the TCCC chair. In the context of RFIs and RFPs, the TCCC chair and other TCCC officers will evaluate the technical relevance of the RFI/RFP, possibly with the assistance of other TCCC members, and determine their suitability for posting on the TCCC mailing list.
Assuming a favorable response to a request for posting an announcement related to an RFI or RFP, the information to be distributed on the mailing list should preferably be in the form of a title and short abstract describing the essence of the proposal, with a pointer (URL) to a site from where the full document and additional information can be retrieved. In cases where the requesters cannot make their proposals available on-line and depending on the actual size of the documents, such postings will either be sent directly on the mailing list (short documents) or optionally posted on the TCCC web page with a short summary sent to the TCCC mailing list.
Please do not post chain letters, political discussions or requests for donations. There are plenty of other, more appropriate fora for these types of discussions and requests.
Note that posting to the list without explicitly including the list
in the To: field is an expressly prohibited use of the mailing
list. In other words, do not include TCCC in meta lists, i.e., a
mailing list consisting of other mailing lists, as this has been shown
repeatedly to cause mail storms. Violations of this policy will be brought
to the attention of the local administrator.