BurmaNet: A letter from the editor

[strider@xxxxxxxxxxx]

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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