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E-MAGAZINE BACK-ISSUE ARCHIVE

This archive retains issues for the previous 12 months. If you would like to see older issues, you can visit the archive that’s maintained on our list server; this contains every issue from the beginning of 1999 (only in plain-text format) and is searchable.

The principal pieces are now also on this site as separate pages.

Plain-text version

These are in the format in which they were sent out by e-mail.

Formatted edition

A formatted and frequently illustrated HTML edition of the e-magazine is put online for subscribers each week. To access the current issue you have to subscribe to the e-mail edition, which contains a link to the formatted version.

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Last updated 21 Nov. 2009
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