ACTWOMEN
List name: ACTWomen
Description: ACTWomen is an email list sponsored by the Women's Electoral Lobby (ACT) for sharing of information about issues and events of particular interest or relevance to women in the Australian Capital Territory and surrounding region. The list was established on 14 May 1998.
List owner: sponsored by ACT Women’s Electoral Lobby email: owner-ACTWomen@vicnet.net.au
Web page:http://www.wel.org.au/welact/actwomen.htm
To subscribe: Address your email to majordomo@lists.vicnet.net.au leave your subject line blank the body of your message should read: subscribe ACTWomen  your email address

AGWOMEN-L
List name: Agwomen-l
Description: This list is for women involved in agriculture - as farmers, students, scientists, business people, community workers, members of rural communities or people simply interested in the issues facing women in rural Australia. Men are also welcome to subscribe to this list
List owner:  Janet Hoare, lcnet@peg.apc.org
Web page: http://www.gu.edu.au/gint/ozlists/ag.html#agwomen-l
To subscribe: Send an email to majordomo@peg.apc.org Leave the subject line blank. Your message should read:  subscribe agwomen-l

AUSFEM-POLNET
List name:Ausfem-polnet
Description: The Australian Feminist Policy Network is is an electronic network for activists, practitioners and scholars who are actively involved with policies which aim to improve the status of women. It connects over 535 individuals and groups around Australia (as of April 1998) and has helped organise a national response on a range of issues since February 1996. This is a free service.
List owner: E.Shannon@utas.edu.au
Web page: http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/humsoc/cpmp/ES6.html
To subscribe: send an email message as follows: To: Majordomo@postoffice.utas.edu.au From: your.name@your.service.provider (This will be inserted automatically) Subject: (Leave this blank) In the main body of the message write: subscribe AUSFEM-POLNET your e-mail address

ACSWIT-l
List name: ASCWIT-l
Description: This is an unmoderated email list sponsored by the Australian Computer Society (ACS). It is open to ACS members and others. The ACS is the association for Information Technology professionals in Australia. It has around 15,000 members, and provides a wide range of services for members, including the option to be involved with the work of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), which the ACS is affiliated with as Australia's national representative body.
List owner: Australian Computer Society Women in Technology Committee
Web page: http://www.acs.org.au/boards/cab/wittr.html
How to subscribe: send an email addressed to majordomo@acslink.net.au with the following only on the first line of your message:
subscribe acswit-l <your name> <your e-mail address>

BAD GIRLS
List name:BadGirls
Description: BadGirls is a discussion list for women who do S/M with other women. The list is designed to be a social and educational forum about BDSM, leather, fetish and role play. Membership is limited to adult women (bi, straight/heterosexual, lesbian, queer, transgendered, transsexual) who have a positive interest in this type of play with other women. In addition to networking and sharing information, we hope to facilitate personal relationships between leatherwomen.and to get play dates. The list is closed and private.
List owner: http://lists.queer.org.au/mailman/listinfo.cgi/badgirls
Web page: -
How to subscribe: send your email to majordomo@queer.org.au  leave the subject line blank and in the body of the message, write: subscribe BadGirls  <e-address
like this:  subscribe BadGirls dom@dungeon.com

CAPA-WOMEN
List name: capa-women
Description: The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) womens email list. It is for women university students, especially postgraduate students, and friends - eg. members of the Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW), university staff etc. It is a list for general news, support and advice as well as current affairs, jobs available, conferences, etc.
List owner: Helen Kavanagh, CAPA National Womens Officer - women@capa.edu.au
Web page: http://www.capa.edu.au
To subscribe: subscribe by sending the message "subscribe" to capa-women-request@gu.uwa.edu.au

DairEmail
List name: DairEmail
Description: Commenced following the Washington Conference in 1998 this list is open to any woman involved in the dairy industry in Australia or overseas. The list is for discussion of any issue of importance to dairying women. There are over 100 subscriers and graduates of the national dairywomen's leadership programs are encouraged to subscribe as they complete the program
List owner: Jenny Easlea
Web page: no
To subscribe:  email Jenny Easlea <easlea@caboolture.hotkey.net.au>

EFA-WOMENS-ISSUES
List name: efa-womens-issues
Description: Electronic Frontiers Australia women-issues list has been established for discussion of a broad range of online concerns, including feminist concerns, and there is scope to pursue conversations about matters of general interest to subscribers.
List owner: The moderator of this list is Spider Redgold tfbsolutions@b022.aone.net.au
Web page: http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Women/efawfaq1.htm
To subscribe: address your email to efa-women-issues-request@efa.org.au In the body of your message type subscribe

EFA-WOMEN-LEARNING
List name: efa-women-learning
Description: The efa-women-learning list has been established for discussion of practical and technical matters - a"can-do" approach.
List owner: The moderator of this list is Jan Whitaker jwhit@primenet.com
Web page: http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Women/learn1.htm
To subscribe: address your email to efa-women-learning-request@efa.org.au
In the body of your message type subscribe

FEMTHEOLOZ
List name: femtheoloz
Description: femtheoloz is an Australian discussion group in feminist theology. It aims to feature  events, celebrations, conferences, new publications, visitors, research interests and other contributions.
List facilitators: Gwen Benjamin (gwenbenjamin@peg.apc.org)
and Janet Scarfe (jcscarfe@peg.apc.org)
Web page:
To subscribe: Address your email to majordomo@vicnet.net.au leave your subject line blank the body of your message should read: subscribe femtheoloz your email address

F-LAW
List name: f-law [Feminist Legal Academics Workshop]
Description: Australian feminist legal academics email list
List owner: Ms Paula Baron Faculty of Law University of Tasmania GPO Box 252 C Hobart, Tasmania 7001  Phone: (03) 6226-2081 Fax: (03) 6226-7623 owner-F-LAW@postoffice.utas.edu
Web page:
To subscribe: send an email message as follows: To: Majordomo@postoffice.utas.edu.au From: your.name@your.service.provider (This will be inserted automatically) Subject: (Leave this blank) In the main body of the message write: subscribe f-law your e-mail address

FINRRAGE
List name: FINRRAGE - Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering
Description: for femnist discussion of reproductive and genetic engineering
List owners: Renata Klein and Laurel Guymer
Web: http://www2.deakin.edu.au/aworc/NEWSGROUP.HTM
To subscribe: address your message to majordomo@deakin.edu.au   leave the subject line blank
subscribe <name FINRRAGE

MELWEBGRRL-L
List name: melwebgrrl-l
Description: melwebgrrl-l is the email list of Melbourne Webgrrls. There are about 40 list members. This mailing list is intended to help members keep in touch, plan activities and discuss issues of relevance to Webgrrls Melbourne. Webgrrls Melbourne was started in September 1996, bringing together women in the Melbourne area and rural Victoria. Members range from complete beginners to professional web developers. Links to members' web pages and news of what's happening can be found at http://www.home.aone.net.au/webgrrls
List owner: Elena Leonoff email elleon@c031.aone.net.au
Web page: http://www.home.aone.net.au/webgrrls/links.html
To subscribe: email the list owner and say who you are and where you are.

NOWSA
List name: NOWSA - Network of Women Students in Australia
Description:
List owner
Web page:
To subscribe: send an email to listserv@gu.uwa.edu.au with no subject line. The body of the message should read subscribe nowsa <your name (where your name is your real name, not your email address)

OWS-L
List name: OWS-L
Description: OWS-L (Oz Women's Studies) is a women's/gender list based at the University of South Australia. It welcomes subscribers from all countries.
List owner: not known
Web page: nil
To subscribe: send the message to mailserv@macgill.unisa.edu.au leave the subject line blank and write the message:  subscribe ows-l your name

APSAWCE
List name: APSAWCE
Description: Australian Political Studies Association Women's Caucus Electronic Newsletter. The list aims to facilitate communication between Australian women political scientists/policy scholars.
List Owner: Jocelyn Clarke email jocelync@rmit.edu.au
To subscribe: email Jocelyn Clarke email: jocelync@rmit.edu.au

STONEBUTCH
List name: Stonebutch
Description: a queer discussion list for very masculine queer females and proud butch-loving femmes interested in contributing to an intimate dialogue about butch/femme gender and building community support.
List owner:
Web page: http://www.cyberramp.net/~grrlburn/sblist.htm
To subscribe: send an email to majordomo@queer.org.au with the words:
subscribe stonebutch your email address in the body of the message.

PHYSICS-WOMEN

List name: Physics-women
Description: This mailing list is established as a line of communication for the community of physicists involved in women in physics
List owner: D.J. O'Connor, PHJOC@CC.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Web page:
To subscribe: send an email to MAILSERV@CC.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU in the body of the email type
subscribe physics-women  your email address

PROFEM
List name: profem
Description: The profem mail list facuses on men, masculinities and gender relations. The list's purpose is to: * promote dialogue and networking among men and women concerned with gender and justice and the elimination of sexism and gender inequalities * circulate information on new initiatives, research and resources * encourage and support men's efforts at positive personal and social change, and provide a virtual community to men (and women) who may feel isolated in their political efforts and/or their personal realisations and struggles. Both men and women are welcome to participate on this list.
List owner:
Web page:
To subscribe:

UNIWOMEN
List name: Uniwomen
Description: Uniwomen is a forum for discussing issues of relevance to women in universities. The topics for discussion vary widely, but may include:- specific employment issues - job opportunities (incl exchanges and secondments) - conferences / seminars - university policies and procedures  - women student issues - sharing information about resources- other opportunities for women (eg scholarships). Uniwomen aims to promote, encourage and support contributions on gender equity in universities from diverse cultural, political, religious and social perspectives. Those unfamiliar with computers and computer based technology are welcome, in the hope that this list will enable learning and promote
access to technology.
List owner: uniwomen-owner@uts.edu.au
Web page: nil
To subscribe: address your email to uniwomen-request@uts.edu.au leave the subject line blank. The message in the email should read: subscribe uniwomen your email address  end

VICCHICKS
List name: VicChicks
Description: Moderated list for activities, events, happenings, and stuff to do - for, by, involving, and with, women in Victoria (Australia). Find out about campaigns, dinners, launches, and new ways to get active and involved. Get out your diary 'cos there's something happening this week!
List owner: Mel Yuan mel_yuan@bigfoot.com
Web page: http://www.bigfoot.com/~mel_yuan/
To subscribe: Email mel_yuan@bigfoot.com and ask to join or visit the web page and enter your email address into the subscription box.

VIC-EMILYSLIST
List name: vic-emilyslist@vmore.org.au
Description:  EMILY's List is a financial and political support network which aims to ensure Labor women who are pro-choice, pro-childcare, pro-diversity, pro-reconciliation, and pro-equity and justice are elected to Parliament. The EMILY's List (Vic) Emailing List aims to facilitate discussion of issues relevant to women within society, politics and the media, and the ALP itself. Subscription is only open to members and will need to be approved by the List Owner.
List owner: Hatice (Hutch) Hussein (h.hussein@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au)
Web page:  http://www.emilyslist.org.au/emilyslist
To subscribe: send an email message as follows: To: majordomo@vmore.org.au From: your.name@your.service.provider (This will be inserted automatically) Subject: (Leave this blank)
In the main body of the message write: subscribe vic-emilyslist

WELINK
List name: welink@lists.c2o.org
Description: provides rural women with an electronic venue to explore the many ways in which communicating electronically may be of interest to them.
List owner: Leonie Daws email l.daws@qut.edu.au
Web page: http//www.bus.qut.edu.au/rwp/Welink.htm
To subscribe: send an email from the address you want to be subscribed to: welink-subscribe@lists.c2o.org leave the subject line blank and the email blank

WELYFEMS
List name: welyfems@vmore.org.au
Description: Women’s Electoral Lobby (Vic) Young Feminist Group email list for sharing information and discussing feminist policy issues and related matters. Subscription is only open to WEL members and will needto be approved by the list owner. Interstate and international members are welcome.
List owner:Hatice Hussein  h.hussein@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au
Web page: http://www.pcug.org.au/other/wel/announce/yfemlist.htm
To subscribe: send an email message as follows: To: majordomo@vmore.org.au From: your.name@your.service.provider (This will be inserted automatically) Subject: (Leave this blank) In the main body of the message write: subscribe welyfems

W.I.S.D.O.M.
List name: W.I.S.D.O.M. email list
Description: W.I.S.D.O.M. is a mailing list for Australian women and anyone interested in women's issues/internet literacy. W.I.S.D.O.M.  was formed as a result of the feedback from the women who attended the "Communities Networking/Networking Communities" Forum (hosted by the Victorian  Association of Community Information Centres) It is an open forum where discussion of women's access to the net are encouraged - anything from how to use a browser to designing and creating your  own web site. Most importantly, the friendly and supportive environment provides the chance to share ideas and network with each other on a National scale.
List owner: not known
Web page: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wisdom/#List
To subscribe: Email majordomo@vicnet.net.au  Enter no subject line but in the body of the message write  subscribe wisdom your email address  end

WILPF-AUSTRALIA
List name: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Australia) -
WILPF - for members and supporters of WILPF
Description: Irregular postings relevant to the aims of WILPF on subjects
of human rights (particularly women's human rights), peace, disarmament and
development
Web page:  None
How to subscribe: email to Cathy Picone at: cathpete@camtech.net.au and ask
to be included in the WILPF (Australia) mailings to members and supporters.
List owner: Cathy Picone email cathpete@camtech.net.au

WIVNET
Note: this list may not be operational
List name: WIVNET
Description: Women's Network for the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Sector in the Asia Pacific Region
List owner: not known
Web page: http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/wnet/emailist.htm
To subscribe: Send an email addressed to: majordomo@sunsite.anu.edu.au
leave the subject line blank and in the body of the message, put the command:
subscribe wivnet

WOMEN’S TALK-BACK
List name: womens-talkback mailing list
Description: Women's Talkback is an unmoderated discussion group designed to provide women with a forum for exploring a broad range of issues relevant to their needs and interests. The aim of the discussion group is to encourage women to network and communicate with each other in a conducive and supportive environment. This is a non technical discussion group.
List owner: Plugged In webmaster (webmaster@plugged.net.au) for the Queensland Office of Women’s Affairs Web page: http://www.qldwoman.qld.gov.au/owa/italk/index.html
To subscribe: use the subscription form on the web at http://www.qldwoman.qld.gov.au/owa/italk/index.html

WOMLAWSTU
List name: womlawstu
Description: A list established in April 1998 for discussion and networking by women law students in Australia. In addition to providing a network the list is considering whether there is a role / need for a national network of women law students in Australia and, if so, the purposes and structure of the network. The list is sponsored by the National Women’s Justice Coalition
List owner: National Women’s Justice Coalition email owner-womlawstu@lists.nwjc.org.au
Web page: http://www.nwjc.org.au/  take the link to the Australian Virtual Centre for Women and the Law
To subscribe: address your email to majordomo@lists.nwjc.org.au  leave the subject line blank. Your message should read subscribe womlawstu  then type your email address on the following line type  end

YWCA-AUSTRALIA

List name: YWCA Australia
Description: A discussion list for national YWCA issues, particularly announcements from the national office. Open to all YWCA volunteers, members, and staff.
To subscribe: Join the list through http://ariel.unimelb.edu.au/~mjy Enter your email address and click the "Join List" button or email MEL YUAN  mel_yuan@bigfoot.com and ask to join.
Web page: http://ariel.unimelb.edu.au/~mjy
List owner: Mel Yuan mel_yuan@bigfoot.com

YWCA-VICTORIA
List name: YWCA-Victoria
Description: Discussion list for local Victorian YWCAs - Albury-Wodonga, Geelong, Dandenong, Wanthaggi, Melbourne, and Bendigo. Open to all YWCA volunteers, members, and staff.
To subscribe: Join the list through http://ariel.unimelb.edu.au/~mjy Enter your email address and click the "Join List" button or email MEL YUAN  mel_yuan@bigfoot.com and ask to join.
Web page: http://ariel.unimelb.edu.au/~mjy
List owner: Mel Yuan mel_yuan@bigfoot.com

EMAIL NEWSLETTERS - AUSTRALIAN

List name: RTN E-Letter
Description: The Reclaim the Night Electronic Newsletter is an Australian national newsletter list which also has international circulation. The Newsletter is produced about fortnightly and it is a great source of information about events and news leading up to Reclaim the Night (last Friday in October each year)
To subscribe: go to the web site at http://www.isis.aust.com/rtn/  complete your details and press 'subscribe'
List owner: Susanne Martain, Isis Creations email: webweave@isis.aust.com

EMAIL LISTS - INTERNATIONAL

BEIJING95-L

List name: BEIJING95-L
Description: a list dedicated to followup to the UN/NGO Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995 and international feminism.  BEIJING95-L is fully moderated.
To subscribe: send an email to majordomo@netcom.com leave the subject line blank. The message should read
subscribe beijing95-l <your email address
List owner: BEIJING95-L is moderated by Jennifer Gagliardi <gagliajn@netcom.com
Web page: List info is available:http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/8984/

RURALWOMEN

List name: Ruralwomen
Description: The Global Network for Rural Women is an on-line and personal network established by agricultural and rural women from around the world. It aims to build on the knowledge and strength they gained from attending the first International Conference for Women in Agriculture held in Australia, 1994.
To subscribe: go to the web page at http://werple.net.au/~faawagri/global/ for instructions
List owner: Global Network for Rural Women c/- Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women email: faawagri@mira.net.au

WILPF-NEWS

List name: WILPF-NEWS
Description: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom NEWS list is designed to facilitate communication within WILPF internationally by making information from WILPF's 44 sections available to everyone who subscribes. The list can be used for action alerts, sharing articles and issues, asking for information, discussion about issues which WILPF is working on, advertising meetings of conferences and advertising merchandise available from a branch or section.
To subscribe: send an email to majordomo@igc.org with the message in your email subscribe wilfp-news  Leave the subject line blank and turn your signature block off.
List owner:

Also see: Gender Related Electronic Forums for a listing of international and other women's email lists

Web forum

CAPOW!
Coalition of Participating Organisations of Women! Web forum page for discussion of topics of interest to women. Currently forum is focusing on sole parents. Address is http//isis.aust.com.au/capow

FirstClass Law
The National Women's Justice Coalition has a public alert and discussion list on FirstClass Law which is an initiative and project of the Law Foundation of NSW. FirstClass Law will soon be assessable via the web without the need to download and install any software. Address: http://www.fl.asn.au/discussion/

International Women’s Day [Isis Creations]

Older Women's Network - Discussion Board

Soroptimist International of the South West Pacific - Bulletin Board
        http://creatorix.com.au/wwwboard/wwwboard.html

Stop Domestic Violence [Isis Creations]

Women’s Constitutional Convention

Links & resources

  The Internet for Women

From Workplace To Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together

Working Together Online,

Discussion Lists Mailing List Manager Commands

Gender Related Electronic Forums

Australian Mailing List Directory

Ozlists

Progressive email lists

Establishing Australian women's email lists

Note: this section has been established to try to help to address the difficulty many women are having trying to work out how to establish email lists. One of the reasons this is difficult is that many Australian internet service providers are not advertising on their web sites that they actually do provide lists.

What are email lists *Who provides email lists * Pricing * Sites offering free email lists * Universities * Community webs * Non-profit rate service providers * How to establish a list * Questions
 

What are email lists
 

Who provides email lists?
 

Pricing

Sites offering free lists

Universities

Community webs

Non-profit rate service providers

How to establish a list

Questions:

NATIONAL WOMEN'S JUSTICE COALITION
Email: nwjc@nwjc.org.au
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