NATO-List covers the range of issues raised by NATO expansion, including Western and Russian official statements and proposals, as well as news reports and analysis.
As I find them, I will list an inventory here of other companion lists covering the topics not covered in NATO-L. Several other shops currently send out stuff a couple of times a week, but they don't quite seem to have conceptualized their traffic as a formal "product" yet.
Traffic to NATO-L is emitted on an as-needed basis -- when there is a lot going on, there may be serveral emissions in a single day, and when things are slow, several days may go by between emissions.
As for content, we aim to cut out the middleman and bring you the direct hot inside skinny -- transcripts of briefings, full texts of important documents, and all the other stuff that gets summarized into 25 words or less by the mass media. Much of the NATO-L traffic consists of extracts from the daily slopping of the hogs @ State, DOD, Casa Blanca, etc, along with a liberal admixture of RIA/Novosti stuff and lotsa other odds and ends that I pick up along the way. This "stuff" is pretty much full text, rather than glosses on other reporting.
Although NATO-L is primarily a one-way news feed, we do encourage submissions from our subscribers. If you have any news or commentary you would like to inflict on the folks who read this list [who constitute some non-trivial fraction of everyone who is anyone in the field] please feel free to pass it along, with the notation that the material is for distribution to the list.
NATO Expansion Online Conference is probably a more appropriate venue for back-and-forth discussions on these issues.
This is pretty heavy duty traffic, and aimed more @ specialists than activists. But if you need access to this type of product as soon as possible, this list is for you. On the other hand, if you are suffering from terminal info.glut as it is, don't despair. The complete set of back issues of NATO-L is archived at this site. So there is no need for you to worry about locally recreating an archive of this email traffic -- we have it all here whenever you need it.
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