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This welcome message is designed to provide you with basic information about this network. It contains information on using the list (managing your subscription; tips on contacting and communicating via the list; mailing addresses of the list editors; a l ist of the current editorial board); information about the network's associated service on the World Wide Web; and contact information about the network's parent, H-Net.

I. The H-PUBADMIN Network: Scope, Content, Purpose.

H-PUBADMIN's purpose is to to further the study and teaching of public administration. It will be, first and foremost, a source of (and distribution point for) information to list members about relevant conferences, professional news, grant and employment opportunities, calls for papers or panel proposals, book reviews, etc. In that sense, the list will be both a "clipping service" and a "posting service" for its members.

The list will also provide an opportunity for political scientists and specialists in public administration to present their ideas and ongoing research for discussion, to consider the directions in which the discipline is advancing,and to encourage the di ssemination of new concepts in research and teaching. Through this list, subscribers and moderators will communicate current research and research interests; discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching.

The list will also be a communications forum for the APSA Organized Section on Public Administration. The list is co-sponsored by the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Public Administrationm and is endorsed by the National Associ ation of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

II. Our Sponsoring Organization

The Public Administration Section is an organized section of the American Political Science Association for members of the Association with interest in teaching and research in Public Administration.

Information about APSA may be obtained by pointing your browser to: http://www.apsanet.org.

You can access the PA Section web site at: http://www.h-net.org/~pubadmin/.

II. Editors.

H-PUBADMIN is currently edited by Mel Dubnick (dubnick@andromeda.rutgers.edu).

H-Net Editors serve two-year renewable terms, with the approval of the H-Net Executive Committee and rotate their duties. The current editor will be identified in all messages coming from the list. The editors will solicit postings (by email, phone and ev en by regular mail), will assist people in managing subscriptions and setting up options, will handle routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings.

Anyone with suggestions about what H-PUBADMIN can and might do is invited to send in ideas. The editors will solicit and post newsletter-type information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings of sessions at conventions.) They will also commissi on book and article reviews, and post book announcements from publishers.

H-PUBADMIN will be moderated to filter out extraneous messages (like requests for subscription) and items that do not belong on H-PUBADMIN. They may belong somewhere else, or in the judgment of the editors they do not aid the scholarly dialogue.

The editors will not alter the meaning of messages without the author's permission.

Editorial correspondence not intended for posting should be sent to:

Mel Dubnick, Rutgers University-Newark
dubnick@andromeda.rutgers.edu

III. Communicating Through the List.

A. Copyright notice. All contributions to H-PUBADMIN fall under the H-Net Charter's sections covering copyright: "[Art. VI,Secs. G and H]: "H-Net respects the copyrights of authorswhose material is posted on its lists and/or stored in its logs, fileserver s, and gopher. Authors who post items to H-Net lists convey to H-Net only the right to electronically reproduce their work on H-Net lists and in H-Net files. H-Net owns the name of each subject- area list, its roster of subscribers, its on-line files, and its gopher and related files. All funds raised by advertisements and fees charged by the subject-area lists belong to H-Net and are under the control of the treasurer. H-Net's assertion of ownership is meant only to protect the rights of H- Net and shall not infringe on the copyrights of authors regarding any files or documents they may have made available to H-Net." In general, the author retains copyright rights to publication of any submission to the list, and H-PUBADMIN and H-Net retain the right to store, disseminate with full attribution, and make available to subscribers such submissions. Postings (such as H- Net book reviews) that are commissioned by H-PUBADMIN or H- Net are copyrighted by H-Net and available for redistribution under "fair use" p rovisions of applicable United States copyright law. A full copy of the H-Net charter and other important information may be found on the World Wide Web at: www.h-net.org/about/.

B. Technical Information. When you subscribe, LISTSERV will send you a confirmation message containing important information about managing your subscription. You are encouraged to save this message as a text file for future reference. ALL changes to your subscription must be addressed to listserv@h-net.msu.edu, the software that manages the distribution and archiving of list electronic mail.

1.) TO SUBSCRIBE: send this email message to listserv@h- net.msu.edu:

sub H-PUBADMIN your name, institution
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Follow the instructions in the reply that LISTSERV will send you in response to this command.

2.) To unsubscribe, logon to the computer account from which you subscribed to the list, and send this message to listserv@h- net.msu.edu:

SIGNOFF H-PUBADMIN

Please unsubscribe from H-PUBADMIN and all other mailing lists if you are terminating a particular computer account. You can then resubscribe from the new account.

3.) To send your own message to all subscribers, send an email note directly to H-PUBADMIN@h-net.msu.edu. Please see "C." below on style and formatting of messages to the list.

4.) To REPLY to a message so that all subscribers can read it, be sure that the outgoing reply is directed to H-PUBADMIN@h- net.msu.edu, and not to the original author or to the editor. Replies intended only for individual authors should be sent directly to the author.

5.) If you are away for an extended period, suspend H-PUBADMIN email by sending this to listserv@h-net.msu.edu:

SET H-PUBADMIN NOMAIL

6.) After vacation, you can resume by sending to listserv@h- net.msu.edu:

SET H-PUBADMIN MAIL

7.) If you prefer to receive one daily digest of all posts to H- H-PUBADMIN instead of various individual posts, you can do so by sending this to listserv@h-net.msu.edu:

SET H-PUBADMIN DIGEST

To return to individual messages, send the following message:

SET H-PUBADMIN NODIGEST

C. Contributions: "Netiquette." The tone and content of H- PUBADMIN depend directly on subscribers. The editors want to encourage lively, informal, productive discussion and exchange of information. To that end, we ask that contributions be considerate of the needs of a busy audience of scholars, some of whom must pay for their access to the internet. Please sign all mail to the list -- the editors will delay posting until authorship is confirmed. The list also strictly enforces a "no flame" rule: ad hominems, unattributed quotations or innuendo, or messages that violate the norms of civility and professional courtesy will be rejected. Persistent violators can be removed from the subscription list.

IV. The H-PUBADMIN Site on the World Wide Web

In addition to providing interactive communications via electronic mail, H-PUBADMIN also maintains a site on the World Wide Web. The site is located on the H-Net server at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. It may be located by foll owing the hypertext links at www.h-net.org. The H-PUBADMIN web site contains the following information and services:

* The archives of the H-PUBADMIN list, known as its "logs." They are in searchable and sortable format.
* The network's official documents: its welcome files, lists of board members and editors, contact information, and other founding and information documents.
* Hypertext links to resources in our subject: teaching materials, research archives, other lists.

V. Editorial Board.

H-PUBADMIN's daily activities are managed by the editors. Its long-term policies are developed by the editorial board. If you are interested in serving on the board, please contact the current editor. Board members referee incoming articles, reviews, and teaching materials; establish basic subscription restrictions and policy; advise the editors on disputes among editors and subscribers; monitor the list and make active contributions to discussion; and serve as the subscribers' voice in H-Net affairs. You are encouraged to contact any or all of the editorial board members with ideas and concerns about H-PUBADMIN.

Current Editorial Board, H-PUBADMIN:

Michael Brintnall
NASPAA
brintnall@naspaa.org

Dale Krane
Professor
Dept. of Public Administration
University of Nebraska at Omaha
dk13838@navix.net

Louise Comfort
Professor
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh lkc+@pitt.edu

Lois R. Wise
Professor
School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University wisel@gwgate.ucs.indiana.edu

Linda deLeon
Graduate School of Public Affairs
University of Colorado at Denver
ldeleon@cudenver.edu

VI. Our Parent Organization: H-Net

H-Net is an international consortium of scholars in the humanities and social sciences that creates and coordinates electronic networks, using a variety of media, and with a common objective of advancing humanities and social science teaching and research. H-Net was created to provide a positive, supportive, equalitarian environment for the friendly exchange of ideas and scholarly resources.

The goals of H-NET networks are to enable scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comme nts on the literature in their fields.

Among H-Net's many services are:

* Book and software reviews: timely, exhaustive, authoritative, professional, fast. Mailed through our lists and stored in searchable, printable, retrievable format on our site at the World Wide Web.

* Job guide postings: at regular intervals, H-Net offers employment information in a broad array of fields in the humanities and social sciences.

* H-Net calendar: announcements of conferences, papers, and professional activities, archived and searchable at our web site. You can visit our site and sample these and other services, at: www.h-net.org

CONTACTING H-NET FOR MORE INFORMATION

On the World Wide Web: www.h-net.org H-Net Gophers: gopher H-NET.org Electronic mail: H-NET@H-NET.msu.edu

Postal mail:

H-Net
8A Morrill Hall
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East Lansing, MI, 48824-1046
Phone: (517) 432-5134
Fax: (517) 353-5229

Executive Director: Prof. Peter Knupfer
Michigan State University
E-Mail: peter@mail.h-net.msu.edu

Associate Director: Prof. Heather Hawley Michigan State University
E-Mail: hawley@mail.h-net.msu.edu

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