Over 25000 people are now receiving Monitor (ISSN 1472-0221), thefree newsletter for PC-based data acquisition and control.Published by Windmill Software Limited, Monitor is sent by e-mailevery month. It is written in an easy-to-understand style andincludes:.* articles on making measurements.* examples of industrial applications of computerised dataacquisition and control.* sources of information on topics such as energy consumptionlogging, RS485 communications and digital control.* news of exhibitions and conferences relating toinstrumentation.Monitor was launched in August 1998 and mailed it to just 42people. Very soon after the publishers started offering theirWindmill suite of data acquisition and control software free toeveryone signing up.

At that time it cost non-subscribers 345 GBpounds to purchase the software - so not surprisingly a greatmany people took advantage and started using Windmill.

In fact,over 17000 copies of Windmill have been given away! Withoverflowing e-mail in-boxes Windmill is very conscious of theneed to keep the newsletter relevant or it will simply bedeleted, or worse still marked as spam.