Saturn is an online discussion of the American bandleader Sun Ra (1914-1993), his band called the Arkestra, and his music (over 2000 compositions).
Saturn has operated continuously since the beginning of 1992. During this time, a high level of discussion has been maintained on topics ranging from Sun Ra's appearance on a recording of the Batman theme, to Sunny's borrowings from the once-again fashionable "exotica" of Les Baxter, to the current activities of the Arkestra, which continues to perform and record under the leadership of alto saxophonist extraordinaire Marshall Allen. Currently there are around 300 subscribers.
The Saturn list is now maintained by British Ra expert Chris Trent (cdt@vega.demon.co.uk). Here's a primer on how to subscribe and how to contribute to the Saturn list.
To subscribe to the Saturn list, send a message of
SUBSCRIBE SATURN (your full name)
to -
listserv@nic.surfnet.nl (this address may vary for you if you have a BITNET account).
To unsubscribe, send a message of
SIGNOFF SATURN
to the same address.
You can set and query many options once you are successfully subscribed - for example you can suspend mail delivery during holiday periods by sending the message
SET SATURN NOMAIL
to the same address.
For full details of all the other options available to you (daily digests, message acknowledgment options, archive retrieval, etc.) send a message
INFO REFCARD
to the same address, listserv@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl
Contributions to the discussions on the list itself are made by sending mail to -