Sometime in the past few days the number of ECOLOG-L subscribers reached
20,000, up a thousand in the past seven months. The growth in subscribers
since I started the list 23 years ago seems to be slowing down compared
to the past four to five years, while the number of messages per week is
perhaps still growing (not uncommonly over 100). Remember that there is a
daily digest option if you'd prefer not to get individual messages. And
there is an archive with a powerful search function
https://listserv.umd.edu/archives/ecolog-l.html.
Thanks again to the University of Maryland for hosting the list. It is
now the largest LISTSERV list hosted by the University, equivalent to
over half the student population (which means that I have to limit the
number of postings per hour). There are 1,400 subscribers from outside
the United States, representing 61 countries, so the audience is quite
international.
Many subscribers are members of the Ecological Society of America, but
those of you who aren't can get information about membership (including
student memberships) at the ESA Web site, <
http://www.esa.org/>www.esa.org. Additional related lists are the
the ESA-STUDENTS listserv list, and the ESANEWS list that provides a
bi-monthly summary of policy news relevant to ESA members and other
ecologists (see
http://www.esa.org/esa/?page_id=5550 to subscribe), and occasional
other messages from the ESA headquarters.
David Inouye, list owner and moderator