News lists (more commonly known as mailing lists) are one of the SourceForge.net services which are employed by Debrief. The lists provide an e-mail based way of communicating Debrief news and announcements amongst a list of interested users. Once an e-mail is sent to the e-mail address of the newsgroup (in your case hosted at SourceForge.net), it is automatically forwarded to all of registered news-list members. A separate e-mail address (the news-list title with a request suffix) provides management support to the newsgroup.
As of summer 2001 there are around a dozen users registered on the news list, with the Debrief Project Manager publishing news each time a new version of Debrief is made available for download.
There is currently just one mailing list related to Debrief, this is named debrief-news. This is quite a low volume mailing list, with at the most two messages a month; so there's no need to worry about getting snowed-under with news items.
To join to the Debrief news list, send an e-mail to <debrief-news-request@lists.sourceforge.net> with the single word subscribe in the subject. You will receive a reply asking you to confirm that you wish to subscribe. This e-mail is to validate your e-mail address, and should be retained since it contains the password you must use to unsubscribe.
Once you have joined the list, you are then entitled to submit news, should you wish to. So, if you have identified or fixed a significant bug, or have contributed significant content to the Debrief web-site, please feel free to e-mail the news list directly. Just send an e-mail to <debrief-news@lists.sourceforge.net>
If you wish to leave the news list, just send an e-mail to <debrief-news@lists.sourceforge.net> with the single word unsubscribe in the subject line followed by the password you were provided with at your initial subscription. If you have lost your password please make a request to the Project Manager to be unsubscribed.
In addition to these e-mail based methods of interacting with the Debrief news list, there is a web-page based interface at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/debrief-news. From this page you can subscribe, unsubscribe, and configure options for how the news messages are sent to you.