There is a mailing list for discussions and announcements relating to ESS. Join the list by sending an e-mail with "subscribe ess-help" (or "help") in the body to @email{ess-help-request@@stat.math.ethz.ch}; contributions to the list may be mailed to @email{ess-help@@stat.math.ethz.ch}. Rest assured, this is a fairly low-volume mailing list. The purposes of the mailing list include @itemize @item helping users of ESS to get along with it. @item discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs. @item suggestions for improvements. @item announcements of new releases of ESS. @item posting small patches to ESS. @end itemize