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 ess-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch; contributions to the list may be mailed to ess-help@stat.math.ethz.ch.  Rest assured, this is a fairly low-volume mailing list.

The purposes of the mailing list include

  * helping users of ESS to get along with it.

  * discussing aspects of using ESS on Emacs and XEmacs.

  * suggestions for improvements.

  * announcements of new releases of ESS.

  * posting small patches to ESS.