Michael Watson, professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin University and editor of the [url=http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs]Premodern Japanese Studies Web site[/url], looked back over the first year of the academic mailing list PMJS and covered such topics as building up membership, keeping up the momentum, giving a mailing list a Web presence, developing Web resources of interest to members—and getting them to join in the work.