Kenneth E. Harker maintains a quite valuable database at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ . Please have a look at his site to get current information about laptop related mailing lists, newsgroups, magazines and newsletters, WWW sites and a big database about many different laptop pages.
To join the Linux-Laptop-Mailing-List write a mail to <majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu> with subscribe linux-laptop in the subject. You will get a confirmation message than, which you have to reply accordingly.
There is now a debian-laptop mailing list. Any questions or discussions concerning running the Debian/GNU Linux operating system(s) on laptops are welcome. Send mail to <debian-laptop-request@lists.debian.org> with a subject of subscribe. Or visit the
http://www.debian.org site and use the online form.