Community-l is an unmoderated list consisting of faculty, staff and students of Harvey Mudd College. Anyone who is a faculty, staff or student of Harvey Mudd College may subscribe to community-l. Its primary goal is to provide an unmoderated forum for members of the HMC community to converse freely about whatever issues may be on their minds. However, the fundamental concept of the community-l is that it is totally unmoderated, so anything someone chooses to send to the list will be posted to all the subscribers. The hope is that the forum will be self-regulated to consist primarily of HMC related issues, but it should be understood that tangents will spring up from time to time.

Community-l is not to be treated like the dorm chat lists. Simply because community-l is unmoderated does not mean you should not exercise restraint when posting to it. Remember to think about what you are saying when you write to the list. Your peers, your professors, the people you live with and work with, all will read your words. Treat this forum with respect, and you will find that the conversations on it will be immensely rewarding.

After much deliberation, it was decided that only people with an hmc.edu domain address will be able to subscribe/post to community-l. While this creates a minor inconvenience for people on campus who use alternate mail services like hotmail or yahoo, it was generally agreed that this inconvenience was worth the advantage of keeping community-l a tight-knit community of Mudders. While there are members of the other Claremont Colleges who are practically members of the Mudd community due to how much time they spend here, their numbers are relatively small and excluding them is worth keeping community-l from becoming an off-campus spam receptacle. Keep in mind though that there is no privacy guarantee. If you post to community-l, it will be talked about by people on campus and possibly spread to people from the other colleges. If you do not want what you say to get around, then do not say it on community-l.