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What is this "musings-l", then?
It’s a mailing list. Whenever anyone posts a message to musings-l (that last character is the letter L, not the number 1, by the way), everyone on the list gets a copy. As a subscriber, you’ll receive all the messages and you can post you own, too.

What kinds of messages appear on musings-l?
It’s a new service; anything might happen. Still, the most obvious uses are:
*    Requests for information
*    Announcements of upcoming gigs, recordings etc
*    Discussions of artists, recordings and gigs
At present, it's being used mostly for the second of these functions.

What will it cost me?
Nothing. Not a sausage. ONElist, who run the service for free, fund it through advertising.

Does that mean I’ll get piles of junk email?
Nope. ONElist have a strict policy on "spam" and they won’t pass your address to any third parties. The adverts appear on their site and on the bottoms of some messages posted to the list. The advertising is suitable for children and contains no promotions for "adult" services (you know the ones I mean).

How about mail from the list itself?
Musings-l isn’t a high-volume list, so you won’t find your mailbox jammed up every Monday morning. If it does ever become verbose, you can opt for a "digest" format instead of the standard one.

OK, I’m sort of interested.
Why not give it a trial, then? To subscribe, send a blank email to musings-l-subscribe. There's a flash web-based way to do this but the code isn't here on the new update yet. The email version is just as good, and probably quicker for you unless you want to subscribe to a different address from the one you mail from in yoru browser.