Pubdate: 30 May 2000 Source: The Media Awareness Project of DrugSense Website: http://www.mapinc.org/ NEW AUSTRALIA, CANADA, U.K. AND U.S. MAPNEWS EDITIONS! While the most popular method of receiving new clippings from The Media Awareness Project (MAP) by email is our Drugnews-Digest http://www.mapinc.org/lists/dnd.htm a smaller group of readers sign on for our MAPNews email service. MAPNews is a very busy list. Average 50 clippings per day. Unlike the Drug-News Digest which has just the first paragraphs of articles, and a link to the entire article, MAPNews clippings are the entire article. Now we announce the availability of subsets of MAPNews which just contain the clippings for each of four countries. The average for the first five months of this year for each country in the number of articles posted/distributed is: COUNTRY # PER MONTH NUMBER PER DAY Australia 114 3.8 Canada 147 4.9 United Kingdom 110 3.7 United States 835 27.8 Besides the advantage of receiving the whole news item by email, MAPNews items are more timely than either the DrugNews-Digest emailing or the posting to our news archives on the website, both which happen at the same time. Enough news items must queue up for a Drug-News Digest to be sent out. But MAPNews items, being single item emails, are sent out to those signed up for the items immediately as the editing/posting team sends them to our emailing software. Thus those who sign up for a MAPNews email list receive the items an average of three hours before those receiving the DrugNews-Digest. If you desire to receive your news clippings by email as MAPNews clippings for one or more of the four countries just go to this webpage and sign up using the dropdown on the sign up form: http://www.mapinc.org/lists/index.htm#news Or send an E-mail to with the line: SUBSCRIBEin the body of the message. The new listnames are: Australia: Canada: United Kingdom: United States: This is just one of the ways we are trying to make our service more useful to you. Those who prefer to just surf on in to our website to find the news items they are interested in may find the list of topical news shortcut in our new Site Map at http://www.drugsense.org/sitemap.htm#map useful. Richard Lake Sr. Editor for the MAP news clipping service. More than 37,710 Drug-Related News Clippings in a powerful searchable database! http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/ Get Involved - Learn about the Issues http://www.drugsense.org Contribute - Help us Help Reform http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm Find Information - Learn how to Make a Difference http://www.mapinc.org - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake