The Australian Quaternary Association disseminates notices and updates via an automated remailing service (AQUAlist). AQUAlist can be used to notify other members of the Quaternary community of job vacancies, upcoming conferences, funding opportunites and new research. This list can also serve as an unmoderated forum for discussion of Quaternary topics.

To subscribe, visit the following website and enter your email address and full name:

http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/aqualist

You can update your subscription details (or unsubscribe) and visit the archives, by visiting the same site.

The list has a number of security features enabled:

• If you subscribe manually to the list you will receive a confirmation notice that you must return. This prevents someone surreptitiously altering your subscription or impersonating you.
• The email addresses of subscribers are not freely available as they are on some lists.
• Replies to the list are redirected to the originator of the message rather than to the entire list. This greatly reduces the potential for mistakenly sending personal messages to the list.
• The list does not accept attachments of any kind (eg., Word processor documents, PDF files). Contact the list owner to place attachments on the website.
• You must be a member of the list to post to it. This allows those who would 'spam' the list with advertising to be traced.
• Finally, the list can be moderated (messages edited) at any time. Abuse of any kind to the list will result in deletion of subscription.

It is convenient to set up a filter on your email application to direct messages from the list to their own folder. For example, on Eudora, do the following:

• Highlight a message from the list,
• Select 'Make Filter' under the 'Special' menu
• Select 'Any Recipient'
• Select 'Transfer to new mailbox'
• Finally, select 'Create filter'
• Highlighting messages in an existing mailbox and selecting 'Filter messages' will move past messages from the list to the new mailbox.

Posted attachments:

'Redefining the Quaternary' Letter by Brad Pillans.

PALCOMM Proposal (PDF) (supplied by Peter Kershaw)