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BurmaNet: A letter from the editor
- Subject: BurmaNet: A letter from the editor
- From: strider@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 19:39:00
Dear BurmaNet-L Subscribers,
On January 1st, 2000 BurmaNet will close the BurmaNet-L discussion list
in order to concentrate on providing more and better news coverage. The
approximately 500 subscribers to this list will automatically be added
to the news-only version of the BurmaNet mailing list.
The reason for the change is that the BurmaNet discussion list is
becoming increasingly unneeded. When BurmaNet started the list on
January 1st, 1994 there was no other Burma-specific forum on the
Internet to discuss Burma. Over the last six years, a number of
newsgroups and discussion lists have sprung up to provide this service,
including the soc.culture.burma newsgroup and the burmanet2 and Maykha
listservs.
Rather than continuing to support a redundant discussion list, BurmaNet
will focus on providing news and information about Burma. Among the
changes coming soon will be a web based version of each issue of The
BurmaNet News that will have photographs, maps and other images. The
text only edition will continue to be distributed via a listserv but
BurmaNet will increasingly become focused on the web. Also later during
the year 2000, look for a Burmese-language version of The BurmaNet News.
To those of you who wish to continue subscribing to an unmoderated
discussion list about Burma, you can subscribe to the burmanet2 mailing
list by sending an email to burmanet2-l-request@xxxxxxxx with the body
of the message containing the line: subscribe
The burmanet2 mailing list run by Coban Tun is unmoderated, uncensored
and is independent of The BurmaNet News.
Thank you for your interest in Burma and I hope that the new BurmaNet
will be even more useful to all of you in the Burma on-line community
than it has been for the last six years.
Regards,
Strider
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