Alternative News Network (Altnews to most), based in Cairns, tropical north Queensland, Australia, today announced an upgrade of their listserver. The old listserver had been in service since 1998.

The new Mailman Altnews listserver is set up on a a dedicated server running Ubuntu linux OS, Apache2 web server, Python scripting language and finally the Mailman listserver software.

Recently, Senator Bob Brown, Australian Greens, said that Altnews has been instrumental in helping the Australian Greens get up to speed with their communication needs via the Internet.

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