I subscribed for a time to the Stumpers mailing list, hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Dominican University since 1992. I unsubscribed because the email provider I was using (Mailblocks) got bought by an evil company (AOL) who integrated its features into their email service and then threw it out. I’m happily using Gmail now, but that’s neither here nor there.
It took me awhile to resubscribe, and when I tried the other day I found out that Stumpers has become mysteriously defunct. There’s no explanation on their webpage as to what happened, which was frustrating, but eventually I found out from Phil Bradley that Stumpers still exists, if in a different incarnation.
Project Wombat is a much cooler name, in any case, and offers the same expertise for which Stumpers had long been known. Perhaps the best part, if you simply have a question that you need answered, is that you can post your question to the list without being a subscriber. But make sure you read their posting guidelines before you do. Think of it as helping them help you; and believe me, they are quite helpful.