The "Built With Amiga Software" Mailing List.

The best way to describe the function of the list is as follows -

"The mailing list of the official Built With Amiga Software campaign, designed to provide a forum where people can exchange ideas and information about the Amiga, Internet usage, and the various pieces of software around which enable the Amiga to be used as a powerful Internet computer, in a happy, friendly and relaxed environment. Not to be used for conducting advocacy or flame wars or any of that sort of nonsense - we've all got far better things on which to spend our time :)"

I shall also post to the list when something changes on the BWA site (new information, updates, that sort of thing) so it could be a useful way of finding out what's happening.

If you think that sounds of interest, then please do subscribe - there is relatively little traffic on the list at the moment (after all,it is only just starting), but you have the option of either receiving each article as it arrives, or just the daily digest (and you can change your option at any time in the future too).

You subscribe to the list by jumping to the BWA Subscription page. Here, you may either log in (if you are already a member of OneList), or you can join OneList first and then proceed.

One point to remember - due to the anti-spam measures taken by OneList, you should ensure that the email address which you use to subscribe is the same as the email address from which you will be posting to the list, otherwise you won't be able to post.

Oh yes - don't forget to reply to the confirmation EMail you receive - if you don't reply, you will not be added to the list (this is a precautionary measure taken to prevent people being subscribe to the list by other people for whatever reason).

You will probably be relieved to know that the BWA Mailing list does everything possible to help to prevent your address being collected for spammers and to prevent spamming to the mailing list.
For example, only registered list members may post to the list (spammers don't tend to bother going to the trouble of signing to a list just to post spam).
In addition, when you post, the bulk of your email address will be "blanked out" in the message which actually appears, so spammers cannot harvest the archives for email addresses.

Please note that OneList say they reserve the right to occasionally sell advertising space within EMails they send out (the service is free, paid for entirely by their sales of advertising space, predominantly on their web pages). They say these will not be obtrusive (certainly I have not seen any so far), but if it reaches the stage where these adverts start to become generally annoying, then I will search around for an alternative way of hosting the list :)

It's a very good question. There is also a very good answer.

Yes, the Amiga is more than capable of running mailing lists (I know of quite a number of active mailing lists which are handled by Amigas). However, my system is not connected to the Internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week (I can't afford the phone bills for that!), which would mean that the time from posting your message to it appearing on the list would be erratic to say the least - not a very satisfactory situation for a mailing list.

So that is why this list is not run on an Amiga - yet. If there comes a time where I am connected much more regularly, then I'll swap over to using an Amiga to maintain the list :)