The CanalChat email list is a private, by invitation only mail list. That is not to say you can't be invited, but for the time being, if you aren't on it then you pretty much have to know someone who is to join.
The reasons for this have nothing to do with snobbery or exclusivity and everything to do with logistics.
Presently the list server is sitting on my desk, groaning under its new responsibility, and shortly it will be on a laptop somewhere buried under Lily's stuff. The ramifications of managing a mail list via correspondence to a mother of a toddler are yet to be discovered, but I suspect that there may be the odd glitch!
The list is not online twenty four hours a day, sometimes the messages will broadcast almost immediately, other times it may take twelve hours or longer, depending on the time in Australia, and the number of distractions.
