All Sierra Club members may join this candidate forum and discussion listserv. Have your membership number handy (it should be on your Sierra magazine). If you can't find your membership number, please contact me at [log in to unmask] and I'll look it up for you. Jane Clark 2004 Candidate Forum and Candidate Discussion List The Sierra Club has organized a candidate forum for this year's Board of Directors election. It will allow members to make a more informed choice when voting, by hearing directly from all the candidates on a variety of topics. Please note that not all candidates have joined the forum but there is discussion about many of them. Candidate Discussion List A listserv has also been set up for the free discussion of the qualifications of candidates for the upcoming election of the Club's Board of Directors. The BOD-CANDIDATES-OPEN-FORUM discussion list is open to all and only Sierra Club members. Though all Club rules for use of the listservs and general expectations for civility will be respected, no discussion thread will be categorically disallowed. Subscribers may ask and answer questions about candidates, Club policy, previous Board actions, etc. Postings to the list must relate to the current election of directors. Postings that discuss a person's actions, proposals and positions are preferable to those that discuss the person her/himself. The latter class of postings will be judged harshly in determining their appropriateness. Personal attacks are discouraged. There are over 700,000 members of the Sierra Club. Though we'd all love to hear from each and every one of them, doing so on this list would decrease its value to everyone. Consequently, the number of postings each day on this list will be limited to 2 per subscriber and a total of 100 per day from all subscribers. These numbers may be modified from time to time as the usage of the list allows. Any change in the per-day numbers will be announced to the list by a list owner. Since the volume on this list could be quite high, please show courtesy to fellow readers. Delete as much as possible of any previous posting while still retaining the crux of the thread to which you are responding. Short replies, like "Me too!" or "I agree," followed by the repetition of a recent multi-screen posting will not be tolerated. Show your agreement and your courtesy by removing most of the original message. Other subscribers have already seen it, just as you did. To join the forum http://whistler.sierraclub.org/listsub/?listname=BOD-CANDIDATES-OPEN-FORUM&< /A> Archives http://lists.sierraclub.org/archives/BOD-CANDIDATES-OPEN-FORUM.html to set a password to view archives http://lists.sierraclub.org/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?GETPW1=REPORT%26z=3 and wait for the confirmation message. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]