Hard copies of the Australian New Crops Newsletter are available from the publisher, Dr Rob Fletcher. Details of availability are included in the Advice on Publications Available . There are over 250 subscribers to this electronic communication group. The purpose of a listserver is to create a vehicle for rapid and easy communication over the Internet via Email. All subscribers to the system can communi-cate regularly with each other very cheaply.
Subscribers write in and ask questions, make announcements and raise issues for discussion.
Each subscriber receives this information and can file it, reply to the specific individual or to all subscribers or delete it. Basic information such as sourcing new germplasm or identifying those interested in a particular new crop can be handled quickly and easily through a listserver such as this. Being a subscriber is as simple as being an Email user. The article on New Crops marketing demonstrates the nature of some of the discussion that occurs. The list of new crops which have been the subject of requests over the past few months demonstrates the range of interests among the subscribers.