How to subscribe

This list is hosted by ONElist, a free list server in California. Access to the list and archive is limited to subscribers. There are two ways to subscribe:

• send an e-mail to the Hate Sites subscription address (a blank e-mail is fine) from the address you want subscribed, or
• visit the ONElist Web site and subscribe there on-line.

We prefer that you subscribe from your actual dial-up e-mail address, rather than another on an anonymous provider such as Hotmail or Yahoo. If you have a choice, we prefer addresses at providers other than AOL and WebTV, both of which are known to cause problems in use.

Please note that only your subscribed address can send or receive postings. If you have a user-friendly alias address but your server uses another, please subscribe the latter to avoid problems in posting.

Do take part

This list is for you. You're welcome to "lurk", just reading what others have to say, but we hope you will take a more active part. The more you put in, the more you'll get out of it.

Keep it friendly

The subjects of the list are not very friendly, but we should still try to be. To help in the latter membership of the list is subject to confirmation and postings to it are moderated by the list manager. Those safeguards will be used as little as possible.

Pagan beliefs cover a broad spectrum, and we share a tradition of tolerating others' paths as they do ours. We will wish to criticise these hate sites, and perhaps indicate our view of their authors, but that should not degenerate into rants about Christianity or crude personal abuse. It is another path, and they are other people, to be tolerated even when they don't reciprocate - hard though some of them may make it. It may help to reflect that they are as intolerant of other Christian paths as of our paganism.

Good practice

As a relatively new list, we have not the experience to develop our own good practice guide. Instead, please read the Good Practice guide for the Pagan MindCrafters list, and abide by its recommendations. They make life on the list easier and more pleasant for everyone, and avoid wasting subscribers' resources.

Any problems

Help is available from the list manager, John Norris. If there is a problem in the way the list is being used by subscriber(s), usually warning will be given. But personal abuse of subscriber(s) and spam may get the perpetrator expelled immediately. If you think the list manager is doing something wrong, e-mail him direct.