Part of the SAWLA mission to improve the quality of SA wine laboratories, is to create an effective forum for communication and a SAWLA electronic mailing list will contribute to this

It works like this

All member email addresses are maintained centrally and by sending an email to sawla@googlegroups.com, it is distributed to all members on the list. It'll ease SAWLA management messages, but also be very helpful to members looking to source advice on wine laboratory issues from amongst SAWLA members

There are always helpful members in healthy Internet communities who contribute to the betterment of the group - should somebody post a question you could answer, simply reply on the email. Remember your reply gets distributed to everybody on the list and will possibly lead to further discussion. You could also reply to the poster in private and off-list. All answers to the list are archived per topic on a web site and a valuable and searchable knowledge base is built up that members may eventually browse for answers without having to post to the list

More about the group web site later, it should not be confused with www.sawla.org - reliable and innovative Google groups was chosen for the SAWLA list. There is a reference to the web site at the bottom of this mail but ignore for now. If you want to find out more about mailing lists, please visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_mailing_list. More about the etiquette of mailing lists, or netiquette, at http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3

The list is private and membership on invitation only, the current subscriptions were harvested from the Interlab system. Please direct requests for membership for your new lab staff members or those not currently included, to the SAWLA management. It is however very easy to unsubscribe, just send an email to sawla-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com

Because Google groups will only redistribute emails received from current members, no or minimal junk mail will be generated by the list. Should valid traffic increase enough, and lets hope it becomes a lively forum, to clog your inbox, please configure your email program to sort SAWLA mail into its own folder. Instructions on request

Important

Because the SAWLA management is going to use the list for official notices, it is important that all SAWLA members join and stay subscribed to the list