The 'khush' mailing list PURPOSE: 'khush' is a mailing list for gay, lesbian, bisexual South Asians and their friends. We define South Asian as people from or descending from countries such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka. The purpose of this list is to discuss South Asian gay culture/experiences/issues, as well as form a social and support network. Currently the list is not moderated and anybody can join or leave the list at any time. CONFIDENTIALITY: The list is completely confidential, that is your name/address will NOT be visible to anybody else on the list unless you send mail to the list. The only persons who will have access to it are the administrators of the list (the founder and the systems administrator of the machine used to maintain the list). But see disclaimer below. AUTOMATICALLY JOINING/LEAVING THE LIST: You can join the list AUTOMATICALLY by sending mail to khush-request@lists.mindspring.com. The subject line will be ignored. The first line in your mail MUST be of the form: subscribe [optional e-mail address] You may leave the list by sending a mail to the same address, khush-request@lists.mindspring.com. Again the subject line is ignored, and the first line in your mail MUST be of the form: unsubscribe [optional e-mail address] If you have trouble joining or leaving this way, please send mail to khush-help@lists.mindspring.com and you will be subscribed/unsubscribed manually. SENDING MAIL TO THE LIST: You can send mail to the list by sending it to khush@lists.mindspring.com. This WILL cause your address to be visible to everyone on the list. If you wish to contribute anonymously to the list, you can send mail to the moderator at khush-help@lists.mindspring.com with a request to forward the mail anonymously. EXTRACTING LIST ARCHIVES: Mail sent to the list is archived on a monthly basis to an ASCII file, which can be extracted automatically by sending mail to khush-request@lists.mindspring.com. The subject line is ignored, and the first line in your mail MUST be of the form: get khush.YYMM Where YY is the year and MM is the month of the desired archive. For example, if you want to extract all the mail sent to the list in the month of April, 1995 then the first line in your mail MUST be of the form: get khush.9504 If you would like to list available archives for automatic extraction, send mail to khush-request@lists.mindspring.com. The subject line is ignored, and the first line in your mail MUST be of the form: index If you would like to extract archives other than the ones listed by the 'index' command, please send mail to khush-help@lists.mindspring.com. HELP/QUESTIONS: Please send any questions about the list or any other administrative stuff to khush-help@lists.mindspring.com ADMINISTRATORS' RIGHTS: The administrators reserve the right to remove anybody from the list at any time, such as if the contents are obnoxious/insulting to any particular person/group. DISCLAIMER: There are no warranties, expressed or implied, by joining the list, and you do so at your own risk. In particular, while it is not likely to happen, the administrators are not responsible for an accidental violation of a member's confidentiality. Please broadcast this message in its entirety freely, especially to gay and lesbian South Asians. Once again, to subscribe/unsubscribe : khush-request@lists.mindspring.com send : khush@lists.mindspring.com help/questions : khush-help@lists.mindspring.com Regards, The list administration.