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After 5 years of service, BERITA-L (which started life as just an alias
list in my mail program) is shutting down. In those 5 years, we have
brought Malaysian, Singaporean, South-east Asian, and Islam-related
news to thousands of Malaysians, Singaporeans, and others living
overseas.

However, since the advent of the World Wide Web, Malaysian, Singaporean
and other south-east Asian newspapers have become globally accessible.
So BERITA-L has become redundant. For a long time, we had volunteers
who would type in news from home. Then we had volunteers who would post
copies from newspapers' web pages.

But over the last year, our volunteers have one by one dropped out as
they graduate, or change jobs, or whatever. I no longer have the will
to recruit new volunteers, especially as BERITA-L is no longer the
essential service it used to be.

The Malaysian Student Association of Central Illinois, which sponsored
us getting BERITA-L on the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign's
listserv, needs a listserv list to carry its member announcements, so
they are reclaiming BERITA-L for that purpose.

In the future, please read the news directly from newspapers' web
pages, eg. those found referenced in
        http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~chai/malaysia.html

God bless,
        Ian
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Ian Chai <chai@uiuc.edu>                 http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/chai