The Croquet NSW web site has included the subscribe email address of the
Australian List for many years on its links page
http://www.croquet-nsw.com/links.html and as the administrator of this site
I have now updated this entry to invite subscription alternatively by
emailing Ian Davidson as its administrator.

I have contacted the Croquet NSW Executive with the suggestion that we
place a news item on the home page of our web site which advertises the
existence of the Australian List and encourages people to join it. I
suggest that Ian or Liz might contact other States to ask them to do
something similar on their web sites.

However, in response to comments by Liz that "subscribers must be entitled
to freedom of speech", and that "strong emotion, misunderstanding and even
paranoia are facts of life" I will say that whereas the former is a given,
there is an etiquette to using email, and particularly email lists, which
if not adhered to by frequent users will reduce subscribers. That etiquette
includes being more moderate than one might be in face-to-face
conversation, not using methods of emphasis such as block capitals, and
never getting personal with anyone. I hope that current subscribers are all
reading this carefully.

Kind regards,
David Archer.