Speleology Servers on the Web

This is one of the places on the Net where you can find a lot of pointers to Caving servers. Many other such directories can be accessed through those pointers.

Mailing Lists: the Cavers Digest, and others...

The Cavers' Digest began in 1988 as a mailing list and was converted in 1992 into a ever growing digest. There are currently near 1000 addresses in the list, only may be half of them in the USA (;-).

Past articles on the Cavers' Digest have included equipment reviews, event announcements, caving news, topography, cave protection, rescue...

Send subscription requests, and all admin stuff, to jim_olsen@novell.com. Please post a short introduction to the list after having subscribed.

And there are a couple of sites that maintain a full index of the digest archive, e.g. at lmu, UK. The Speleology server at Yale had a retrieval facility through the digest archives (but it is currently broken).

The Cave surveying list (subscriptions at cave-surveying-request@mantis.co.uk). For all matters related with surveying, mapping, positionning, etc...

Cavedata: The UIS "Cave Data" Mailist

(Subscribe at Majordomo@techpkwa2.curtin.edu.au, with "subscribe cavedata" in the body of your mail)

Russia:.There is a Russian moderated mailist. The moderator is Pavel Gul'chuk, gul@lucky.carrier.kiev.ua. You may try to post in english (I have not tried yet). The address for messages intended to be sent to everybody is lucky.carrier.kiev.ua

UK: British cavers have set up a cavers Newsgroup, named uk.rec.caving

Canada:Canadian cavers email addresses

Italia:Italian cavers email addresses