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Links: Mailing Lists

ASJA Contracts Watch Newsletter: Searchable archive of newsletters on copyright and legal issues for writers.
Canadian Freelance News: A free ezine, emphasizing writing and photography. Here's their page of Canadian writer links.
Copyediting-L Mailing List
CE-L Archives: CE-L is a big mailing list (with a high noise ratio) devoted to copyediting, with some business discussions on the side. List members can put themselves on a freelancer list that is available to publishers. "Join the list" (i.e., subscribe) is a link on the archives page.
DragonNaturallySpeaking: ONElist group. for users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This is Willa's list for people using Dragon with other software applications, such as indexing software programs (Cindex, Macrex and Sky) as well as those who use Dragon with word processing, spread sheet and database applications.
Freelance-Translators Mailing List: This is the subscription page. There's a searchable archive, but only members can access it.
TECHWR-L Mailing List: Discussion list for technical writers and editors.
IndexStudents Mailing List: This is Dan Connolly's discussion list for USDA indexing course students. (There's a really nice FAQ via this page.)
Index-L Mailing List: Discussion list for professional indexers.
Indexers Webring: Not a mailing list: a small webring for indexers and indexing sites.
Editorium Update: This is a weekly update newsletter about Microsoft Word by Jack Lyon, who sells add-ons for publishing professionals. Dan says, "Those of you who write to me about being intimidated by macros and templates couldn't do better than to start reading Editorium Update once a week. The rest of you, those who are not Word experts (yet), will find this bulletin a godsend every once in a while, and a welcome reminder the rest of the time." Read back issues at the Topica site. [10/25/00 addition]
The Electric Editors (UK): Home of the EDline (editorial discussions), LANGline (foreign languages), and Grapevine (computer-related topics) mailing lists. Plus Word and WordPerfect macros (lots of them) for editors, and tons of useful links. Check out this site. [link update, 6/20/99]
NASW-freelance and NASW-jobs: National Association of Science Writers mailing lists.
McEdit Mailing List: This is Chuck's list for Mac-using editors interested in chatting with the like-minded. For more information, email the list's moderators.
Topica/Business/Publishing: Topica, like eGroups/ONElist, is a free mailing list server, and this link goes straight to their Business/Publishing classification for yet more mailing lists devoted to everyone's favorite subject.
VoiceGroup: Email discussion list of active users of speech recognition and/or voice operated command and control programs. Members represent programs from Dragon Systems (Dragon NaturallySpeaking, DragonDictate) products, IBM ViaVoice products, L&H VoiceXpress products to mention a few.
Work for Writers Mailing List: Francine Modderno's list "for professional writers, staff or freelance, to find job leads, share information on job searches, writing contacts, contracts, writers' organizations, etc. It's also for employers to post jobs for print, screen and tv writers, journalists, editors, book indexers, etc."


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