The Hive Mailing List is a user group that Ralle recently created.
We are soon going to publish an official Hive Workshop newsletter!
By default, the document will be sent to all members. Of course anyone will be able to un-subscribe by removing their account from that group using their User CP.
It's the staff's hope that all users will freely choose to accept, read, and forward the document: we might be able to interest more people in our site and gain some valuable new members. The preparations are underway and the letter should be ready in another week or two.
For my own part, I'll be contributing to the newsletter along with many other staff members. Users who help us by providing valuable feedback about it might very well expect to get wolver-repped.
Stay tuned: a news announcement will be made when the newsletter is ready.