The following are mailing lists which asbs members may find of interest:
- ash-l is an open mailing list for ASHer's. No moderation, but the list owner will unsubscribe anyone who spams, intervenes or trolls. Come one, come all.
- Alt-Suicide-Holiday is a closed mailing list for ASHer's. You must be known to a member of the list in order to be allowed to join or have posted to the newsgroup with the same email address you request admission with. This is expected to be a "safer" mailing list than ash-l, but spammers, interventionists and trolls are not guaranteed to not be members. Unmoderated.
- suicidehospice is a semi-open mailing list for suicidal people. Posts from new members are moderated by the list owners until the user is well-known. The topic of the list is methods discussion, but much other discussion occurs as well.
The rest of this document is for people who are unfamiliar with mailing lists.
A mailing list is equivalent to sending an email to a bunch of people
at once.
The list of people who receive the email is managed by the list
owner, who also decides how the list is run, who can join, who can post,
and if it is moderated.
Privacy - Mailing lists are much more private than newsgroups, your
posts are sent to a limited number of members, not to public servers
worldwide.
Moderation - Both who may read and who may join is controlled by the
list owner. This greatly increase the signal-to-noise ratio over
Usenet. Flamewars are less likely and users who post inappropriate
posts may be banned.
Privacy - Any member may end up saving your post and posting it
elsewhere; privacy is not guaranteed.
Moderation - There is no guarantee that all members who read are not
trolls, spammers or interventionists. Further, if the list is not
moderated, posts of those sort may get through, though usually only
once as the user will be unsubscribed by the list owner.
If you don't want all these posts coming to your regular email
account, you sign up for a web-based email account like
Hotmail. Keep in mind that this
account is
only accessible via your password, do not lose it or give
it to anyone else.
