ALE does not receive a lot of traffic compared to some other lists that I have seen. For example since June I have a count of 3111 emails from ale & ale-unemployed. Compare that to 11111 from one of my other lists that I belong to. That is just a single list from that site that has 2 or 3 others. By the way that's the same time frame as ALE. Just my .02 worth(less) thoughts.