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E-mail Lists Relating to Scrabble®

There are four e-mail lists relating to Scrabble® primarily in North America:

• crossword-games (CG) - this is for anyone who wants to read about Scrabble® in general - 289 subscribers as of 26-Aug-04
• crossword-games-pro (CGP) - this is for club and tournament players and can therefore be esoteric - 922 subscribers as of 26-Aug-04
• word-game-programmers (WGP) - this is for programmers who are interested in software to play word games - 289 subscribers as of 26-Aug-04.
• ospd-scrabble - this is for club and tournament players who use the North American lexicon - 710 subscribers as of 26-Aug-04

All of these are yahoogroups.com-based mailing lists. The first three of these lists are maintained by list mistress Sherrie Saint John, who asks that you visit http://sasj.com/cgp for information on joining the lists. These lists are not moderated - no one reviews and approves messages that are sent to the lists. However, Sherrie reserves the right to remove members and/or prevent posts from list subscribers who break list rules.

CGP membership is limited to players who are club or tournament players. In North America it is expected that you would be a member of the NSA. When you ask Sherrie to be placed onto the CGP list, let her know your NSA member number or your rating. If you are not from North America, just send her your rating and country of origin. Beware that this list sometimes gets quite a lot of message traffic, such as several tens of messages per day.

John Chew maintains an archive of significant postings to CGP.

Jim Geary maintains an FAQ for CGP.

The ospd-scrabble e-mail list is also hosted at yahoogroups.com, but this list is maintained by list mistress Cheryl Cadieux (a.k.a. "Stellllaaa"). Cheryl reports that the list was started by Jim Miller when there was turmoil on the CGP list, especially about whether to adopt the SOWPODS word list, which is the combination of the North American and British word lists. She says (with slight editing): " The only rule we have is that messages should be about OSPD words - no funny words for us. There is also no fighting or name calling allowed. We bill ospd-scrabble as the tension- and stress-free Scrabble® list. We have daily new and antique newspaper articles, a daily OSPD word list, daily OSPD word of the day, daily this day in history, a weekly phony contest by David Slauenwhite, a weekly column by Darlene Rouse on words of the week, anagrams and hooks, letters to Dear Stellar Stellacious, Stellar report, a tile bag of Scrabble and other trivia from around the world, plus much much more!"
In order to subscribe to this list, send an e-mail message to ospd-scrabble-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.