Subject: Announcing Vendors of Assistive Technology mailing list
From: robbie@KRAMDEN.PHAEDRAV.ON.CA (G. Robert Arrabito)
Organization: Arrabito Enterprises

For quite some time now, I've been looking for a mailing list that caters to 
vendors of assistive technology. As a blind consumer, I would like to know 
who the various vendors are in my surrounding area. For example, about a few 
months ago, I found out of a vendor of assistive technology near me. I'm 
told this vendor has been in the business for about seven years but I never 
heard of it. Now I'm on the mailing list and am impressed with the prices 
and services offered. I'm sure that there are quite a few of you out there 
that have experienced the same thing.

So, I am setting up an unmoderated mailing list called VAT (Vendors of 
Assistive Technology). This list is open to any vendor of assistive 
technology (e.g., products and services for the blind, visually impaired, 
deaf, learning disabled, etc.) who would like to make themselves known to 
the public at large. Feel free to advertise your products and services. 
Similarly, if you're a consumer, you can post to the list in order to find 
the vendor(s) in your area who sells/repairs product X.

To subscribe to the VAT mailing list, send a message to:

        listserv@kramden.PhaedraV.on.ca

and in the body of the message say:

        subscribe VAT "firstname lastname"

For example, the following command will add John Doe to the VAT mailing 
list.

        subscribe VAT "John Doe"

Please circulate this announcement.

Robert Arrabito
robbie@kramden.PhaedraV.on.ca