On Saturday morning, I had an idea. It’s now Sunday evening and it’s off the ground.

I’ve started OzTFS.com - a mailing list that brings Australian TFS knowledge and experience direct to your inbox.

Although blogging about your experiences is great, I’ve found that people (who don’t read blogs) are missing out on important information.

An example for me was that people hadn’t heard about the latest TFS Power Tools update. This update included a TreeDiff utility that they could be using - but they didn’t know about it.

When I read this post from Jeff Beehler about TFS communities this morning, I thought it was perfect timing.

Subscribing to the mailing list

Signing up is simple, just send an email to listserver AT oztfs.com with the word “subscribe” in the subject. (or click here)

Or have a read of the vision and future directions on the website: www.oztfs.com

Posting to the mailing list

Posting is simple as well (when you know how). Once you are subscribed, just send an email to listserver@oztfs.com and it will be broadcast to everybody. At the moment I don’t think you “get your own email back” after sending, but I will look into that.

Remember, by default “Reply” will go to the list, if you want to reply to somebody directly you will have to type their email address.

Hopefully this is what the community wants and it will flourish into something that benefits everybody.