This week the ECOLOG-L subscriber count reached 19,000, 26 years after I
started it in 1992. The graph below shows the history of subscriber
number, with an inconsistency in the growth curve at a time when
LISTSERV started having some problems with e-mail addresses from
yahoo.com (I think that was the one).
Thanks again to the University of Maryland for hosting this list, which
I think is the top or second-largest list they now host. On average it
generates about 7-8 million e-mail message per month (and a lot of error
messages when there are temporary errors in delivery or subscriber
addresses). Although it's now used primarily for advertising job
opportunities and courses, I encourage you to use it for one of the
other main reasons I started it, to discuss topics of interest for
ecologists, post questions about techniques or ideas, etc.
David Inouye, list owner and moderator
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Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
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Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
