The functionality of the website backend follows the standard Joomla paradigm and will be familiar to webmasters, but may be confusing for those members who task it is to write and dispatch emails.

For such users, for example the Social Secretary or the Chair, all the functions they need are available from the front end. A single multi-purpose screen is provided, sometimes accessed from the "Members" area.  Available to the public will be a list of all the active Mailing lists, with details of the most recent date, the number of Subscribers and the number of mailshots. By clicking on the mailshot count of any Open list, it will be possible to browse the messages.

If the user has logged to the site, additionally buttons will be present allowing the user to Subscribe or Un subscribe. Furthermore, if the current user is the "Owner" of a list, or has been granted authorship rights, further options will be available:

• If a mailshot is pending, i.e. a draft is present that has not been sent, it can either be edited again or it can be sent.
• If no mailshot is pending, one can be created.

If the logged in user is an Author of any lists, then the number showing in column "Subscribers" can be clicked to show the list of Members subscribed to that list.