Today, June 28, 2000, marks the tenth anniversary of LLTI. It was on this day
exactly ten years ago that I sent an email message to David Avery here at
Dartmouth College asking him to set up a listserv mechanism to be called LLTI.
We started on a mainframe CMS machine and have now graduated to a small
dual-processor Pentium box that handles about 40 lists that have their home here
at Dartmouth College
Today our membership is close to 1400. A large majority of members comes from
the ".edu" domain (more than 55%), followed by subscribers from the ".net"
domain, followed by subscribers from the ".ca" (Canada) domain. Subscribers from
".org,", ".com," and ".mil" make up about about 7%. The remaining subscribers
come from 36 countries and make up about 30 percent of membership. Some
subscribers still have bitnet addresses that I cannot clearly identify without
investing a large amount of time.
LLTI is a successful list because all of you have been contributing over the
years. Our archive contains enormous amounts of information on issues concerning
our profession. Our sponsors - Dartmouth College, IALL (The International
Association for Language Learning Technology), and the Consortium for Language
Teaching and Learning - have been generous in providing time, funds, and
technology over the last ten years.
Editing this list is a daily pleasure for me. There are very few lists in this
world where information is shared so generously among colleagues. I look forward
to at least another ten years of working with all of you!
Otmar Foelsche (LLTI-editor)
Dartmouth College