| Mission |
| The premise
for the YOUTH lists is to establish an outlet for gay, lesbian, bisexual,
transgendered, questioning, and straight supportive youth ages 25 and under
to talk with each other concerning such issues as coming out, schools,
parents, friends, relationships, and other gay-related and non-gay-related
youth issues.
The three email lists (YOUTH13-17, YOUTH17-21, and YOUTH21-25) are the first of their kind to offer a conversational/chat/support youth group in an email form. The email lists solve some problems that newsgroups, IRC, and chat rooms have. Email is quick, easy, convenient, and the most accessible. Not everyone knows how to subscribe to newsgroups, or to enter chat rooms, or even have the access capability to do so, but anyone with an email address can have access to these lists. The YOUTH Lists have a strict age guideline in order to hopefully solve the problem of older people hanging around in supposed youth forums. The age policy will be strictly enforced on the lists. Although there is no absolute way to guarantee that a subscriber is within the proper age range, if it comes to the attention of the List Coordinator that a particular subscriber is over the permitted age, the subscriber will be immediately removed from the list. The lists will try their best to remain youth only! |