Er, sort of. If someone were to decide to post in Ugaritic or Swahili, there's nothing anyone could do to prevent it, except to unsubscribe that person after the fact. We can't *force* someone to write in English in advance! But we do prefer that you post in English.
As for fees, there isn't a licensing fee. Liz is a sys admin at panix.com. She set up Arachne and configured the permissions, but once it's up and running it doesn't cost anything (except time) to keep it going. No organization collects fees for allowing you to run an e-mail list. You could buy a server (these days it looks like an ordinary PC), install list software, configure your own list, connect to the Internet, and -- voila -- you are a list owner. When I was at the Hebrew University I was the owner of the longest continuously running Jewish studies list. There weren't many lists in those days because you had to have access to a computer system that could be secured (i.e., someone couldn't come in and switch it off or change things), you had to be able to install majordomo, and to know the commands to set up the list. Now it's very easy to set up and maintain lists because organizations like Yahoogroups do all the background work and maintenance. They've made the server commands very easy with a Web interface (no more typing terse list commands and sending them to an anonymous server). Yahoogroups doesn't charge for lists either. They just subject you to advertisements unless you choose the 'paid' version, because they're in the business to make money. <g> Best wishes, Avital > speak English since that's the language the list owner established it > in. Thanks to the generosity of list owner Liz, it doesn't cost us > anything directly. She pays the yearly license fee and maintains the base > computer. > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
