Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:38:03 -0500 From: Robert Subject: GayPoz Information / Guidelines UPDATE PLEASE RETAIN THIS MESSAGE FOR FUTURE USE AND REFERENCE! Last Updated on September 13th, 1998 GayPoz is an internet discussion list for GAY MEN WHO ARE HIV POSITIVE to share emotional support, medical information, and their everyday life experiences while living with HIV / AIDS. Although HIV / AIDS affects people throughout society, some gay men living with HIV feel more comfortable discussing certain issues in a STRICTLY HIV POSITIVE GAY MALE environment. This list will try to provide a safe place of this sort and is for this purpose only. This is a CLOSED list. All subscribers must be approved by the list maintainers. Anyone who wishes to subscribe must first contact the list maintainers by private email at "GayPoz-Approval@Web-Depot.Com" (OMIT the quotation marks). This list is UNMODERATED. Members are free to post whatever they wish without censorship. Submitted postings go directly to and are processed by the server without prior review. However, all postings must fall within the boundaries of the GayPoz Guidelines. In the event of a problem the maintainers will correspond directly with the member privately with the intention of discussing and resolving the problem. There is a MORE GENERAL AND INCLUSIVE mailing list here too named HIV-Support. For an automated response providing information on HIV-Support, send a message to "Lists@Web-Depot.Com"; The BODY of the message should be "Info HIV-Support" (OMIT all quotation marks). Here are some guidelines for this list: 1. Feel free to share information, experiences, feelings, and opinions in a compassionate and supportive manner. 2. The assumption is that HIV IS THE CAUSE OF AIDS. 3. No advertisements, please. 4. Researchers and observers are requested NOT to subscribe. This list is for gay men living with HIV only. Please respect our privacy and confidentiality. Potential new subscribers must first contact the list maintainer at "GayPoz-Approval@Web-Depot.Com" (OMIT the quotation marks). 5. Respect each other. 6. No blaming the victim or telling people that they will die if they don't follow your treatment ideas or beliefs. 7. Please take the time to make your message the best it can be. Consider your posting carefully before sending it out. Is it appropriate for an email support group? Will it further the purpose of the group? Remember, your message will be seen by hundreds of people who are taking their time to read it. When replying to a specific message it is helpful to quote only the portion of the message that you are responding to rather than reproducing the entire message. Proper spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and line and paragraph breaks will help make your message more readable. Please post messages in PLAIN TEXT format only. 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Please help us to maintain an atmosphere of confidentiality and trust. The Web-Depot, Inc. statement on privacy of the mailing list can be found on the internet at: http://www.web-depot.com/hemophilia/list-confidentiality.html 2. It is requested that GayPoz subscribers not forward or redirect any message originating on the list to any non-subscriber without the prior permission of the author of the message. When permission has been granted to do so, all GayPoz identifying information should be removed from the message. Exceptions to the above are messages commonly posted under the topic of "Today's Joke" as well as information that has been reposted from other sources such as AEGIS, ATN, BETA, etc. However, once again all GayPoz identifying information should be removed from the message. 3. Messages which a subscriber receive's from another GayPoz subscriber via private email SHOULD NOT be forwarded or responded to on GayPoz without the prior permission of the author. 4. 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