Membership

The membership of this group is usually given only after the referral / recommendation of an existing member. Alternatively, any one associated with Autism in India may request a primary membership of the Network by either

-Visiting the website http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/AutismIndia/join

-Or sending a blank e-mail to AutismIndia-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.in

For approving the membership, please remember to send us an e-mail, introducing yourself and your child, the location/ city of residence, the problematic areas and the therapy/ intervention/ treatments tried. You may add any more information, as you please.

If you are a professional or an institution, working in the field of autism, please tell us in a few words, about your specialization, your background and your experience and services in the field of Autism or related fields.

Please send your mails to the group address of AutismIndia@yahoogroups.co.in soon, so that your membership request can be approved.

Accessing the website (with a Yahoo username and password)

For accessing anything from the group website (file section, old messages, etc.), a membership of the group is required.

Please note that this e-mail group is hosted by Yahoo India, so the group's web address and the e-mail address are slightly different from that of general yahoo groups. 

Web address: http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/AutismIndia/

Old message archives of the group can be accessed and searched online at http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/AutismIndia/messages

E-mail address of the group:  AutismIndia@yahoogroups.co.in

Mail Delivery Options

In this group, the members will receive only a very few, moderated mails daily. I am looking forward to serious messages /discussions only.  No advertisements, no spams or junk mails, no chain letters or moneymaking offers will reach your inboxes.

Most of the members are receiving a single daily digest a day. The daily digest contains all the messages of that particular day. But the disadvantage of getting the daily digests is that the attachments -if any, will not come with the digest. (Generally, we do not encourage attachments.) Also, the mails will reach you only at the end of the day and not

as soon as they are approved. Those who are actively participating in the discussions of the group are encouraged to keep the mail delivery setting to 'individual mail' setting, so that they can receive and answer the mails individually and also, as soon as possible.

In case, any one wish to change the setting of mail delivery, they can change it themselves, just by sending a blank email to

AutismIndia-***@yahoogroups.co.in. Replace '***' with

digest - to receive a single consolidated email once a day (without any attachments)

normal - to receive individual emails with attachments-if any.

nomail - to put the mails on hold (during vacations, etc.)

help - to receive general help from Yahoogroups.

If anyone requires, the help of the moderator for changing the setting, they may intimate their choice to the AutismIndia-owner@yahoogroups.co.in or AutismIndia@Gmail.com

Guidelines for posting messages to AutismIndia Yahoogroup

While sending the messages to the group at AutismIndia@yahoogroups.co.in, please remember the following guidelines.

(1)               Try to avoid attachments, as far as possible. Instead, you may copy the text and paste them in the mail and send it to the group address. Those who are getting the mail in digest form will not receive the attachments.

(2)               Please avoid the single line or SMS-like messages (like thank you, congratulations, received, OK, I will, etc.)

(3)               While you are forwarding a web address link of some good article on a website, please try to copy the article and paste it in the same message, below the link –so that the readers need not be compelled to visit the source web pages online. (In case the article is too large and/or if it can not be copied and pasted in the mail, please state it clearly)

(4)               Similarly, while copying any article from other resources on the web, give credit to the source and add the web address link of that source or the name of the original author at the beginning of the message itself.

(5)               While opening a new thread, or a new topic for discussion in the group, please give a relevant subject line to your messages, so that searching the message archive can be made easy.

(6)               Those who are receiving the mails in digest form, while replying to any particular message in the digest, please remember to delete the original digest portion of the mail.

(7)               Hotmail users, please remember to make the Rich Text Editor ‘Off’ before sending the message to the group from the web page of Hotmail. To do this change, in the Hotmail new message screen- Tools- Select Rich Text OFF. This is a toggle option, i.e changes from ON to OFF and vice versa. While composing and sending the message, if the Rich Text option is kept ON, that particular message will not appear in the daily digest.

(8)               In case you want to correspond to the author of any particular message, even though the e-mail address of the author might be hidden, you may still use the “Reply” and “Send” buttons of your e-mail program. It will definitely reach the author.

(9)               You are free to express your opinions, without hurting anybody’s sentiments. But please remember that the messages will reach the group members only after the approval/ moderation of the group moderator.

(10)           As each and every mail is moderated and as we follow a practice of allowing just two or three messages only in a single day, your message may or may not appear in the daily digest of the same day. Please be patient to see your message being approved, in a few days.