How do I join?

Before you join, you are strongly encouraged to read the WOTI Guidelines.

There are five ways you can participate. It's free, and only your email address is required to join. Your address will never be given to anyone; it will be used solely to deliver email from other WOTI members and occasional administrative messages. Commercial advertising is not permitted on the forum.

Choose the method that best suits you:

Option 1: The Web forum

Read and post WOTI messages via the Web! To get started, please go to the Register page for the WOTI forum.

Option 2: The interactive mailing list

On the interactive list, you will receive approximately fifty to one hundred emails per day. Each is posted by a fellow WOTI member.

The interactive list is ideal if you expect to be frequently replying to other postings and don't mind the volume of incoming mail.

To join the interactive mailing list, enter your email address in the blank below, then press the "Join WOTI via the Interactive List" button.

Assuming you've entered your email address correctly (one in three addresses entered here are incorrect!), you will receive an automated email with further instructions.

Alternatively, you may subscribe by sending an email to wings-subscribe@woti.org

Once you've subscribed, you can post your own messages by mailing them to wings@woti.org Any message you send to that address will be immediately distributed to everyone on the interactive list. As verification that your posting was successful, you will also receive your own message back.

Option 3: The Digest list

You will receive somewhere between one and five large emails per day containing the day's messages.

The digest is the best choice if you don't expect to frequently reply, or if you need to control the volume of mail.

To join the Digest mailing list, enter your email address in the blank below, then press the "Join WOTI via the Digest List" button.

Assuming you've entered your email address correctly (one in three addresses entered here are incorrect!), you will receive an automated email with further instructions.

Alternatively, you may subscribe by sending an email to wings-digest-subscribe@woti.org

You can post your own messages by mailing them to wings@woti.org Any message you send to that address will be immediately distributed to everyone on the interactive list. You will see your message in the next Digest email.

Option 4: News

You can read the postings by pointing your Web browser at news://news.woti.org/wings or by configuring your Newsreader software to access the News server at news.woti.org.

For security reasons, you cannot post messages via News. Before you can post, you must register your email address by entering it in the blank below, then press the "Join WOTI via News" button.

Assuming you've entered your email address correctly (one in three addresses entered here are incorrect!), you will receive an automated email with further instructions.

Alternatively, you may register your email address by sending an email to wings-allow-subscribe@woti.org

After you've followed the instructions in the response email, you can post messages by emailing them to wings@woti.org Your messages will usually appear in News shortly after being sent.

Option 5: On-line archives

In the archives, you can read every list message since WOTI was formed in 1995, and search for past messages by keyword.

Before you can post to the list, you must register your email address by entering it in the blank below, then press the "Join WOTI via the Archives" button.

Assuming you've entered your email address correctly (one in three addresses entered here are incorrect!), you will receive an automated email with further instructions.

Alternatively, you may register your email address by sending an email to wings-allow-subscribe@woti.org

After you've followed the instructions in the email, you can post messages by emailing them to wings@woti.org Your messages will usually appear in the archives by the next day, though there are sometimes delays.