The Internet community for editors, proofreaders, indexers,
translators and publishers
The Internet community for editors, proofreaders, indexers,
translators and publishers
EDline provides the opportunity for online discussion of matters editorial and editorial business, and to provide prompt answers to vexing questions. At some stage everyone working with words has a question to which they cannot readily find the answer; EDline is the forum for posing that question. (Computer-related issues, including using software for editing, are covered by Grapevine, our computer-related mailing list.)
EDline was started as SFEP-ED-L in September 1996, moderated by Jane Kerr and Iain Brown for the then Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders (now the Society for Editors and Proofreaders). It was intended as a discussion forum for people working in an editorial capacity within the UK publishing industry. SFEP-ED-L became EDline in March 1997, when the mailing list was opened up to anyone involved in the preparation of the written word for publication, including editors, proofreaders, indexers, translators, writers and typesetters, regardless of their location.
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EDline is available in three formats: automated, automated digest and digest forms. It costs nothing to subscribe to any version.
By subscribing to the automated EDline mailing list, you will receive e-mails immediately they are posted to the list. (Note, though, that the volume of mail generated by the automated list can be high.) An alternative is to subscribe to the automated digest mailing list, where our listserve software collates all individual messages each day and sends them to subscribers.
If, however, you wish to receive EDline postings in an orderly fashion, you should consider subscribing to the digest version. The digest version is moderated and messages organised into sequential threads. EDline digests are e-mailed usually once a week, sometimes more frequently. You may wish to subscribe to the digest if you are too busy to read daily postings sent by the automated list, are away on holidays or ill.
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From the Electric Editors’ Privacy statement:
As part of the functioning of the Electric Editors, we store lists of names, e-mail addresses and URLs on computer, which you provide explicitly, through subscribing to the free mailing lists and requesting a listing on our members’ homepages. This information will never be sold, given or shown to any individual or organization (other than the Electric Editors co-ordinators), except as required by law or for the efficient operation of the Electric Editors.
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An index of the URLs that have appeared in the “Bookmarks” section of EDline are available from the EDline Bookmarks subject index page.
The Electric Editors’ Resources pages are updated with new URLs and information as often as possible.
Some other useful resources are listed in the EDline administrative notes.
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All issues of the EDline digest mailing list are available from our archives. You can read the latest digest issue online. You can also view the Topica archive of EDline messages posted since 27 July 2001.
Please note that back issues of EDline’s predecessor, SFEP-ED-L, published by the then Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders (now the Society for Editors and Proofreaders), are available only to members of the Society.
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For information on how to post a message to the list, please refer to the EDline administrative notes.
You may wish to also read our notes on posting messages to our mailing lists.
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EDline is moderated by Jane Kerr and Iain Brown. All messages of an administrative nature should be directed to them at the following e-mail address:
edline-admin@electriceditors.net
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