Well, I figure the more the merrier as long as good health info is
available.
 
The FHL which was begun by Christopher Bennett 5 years ago is the first
FHL.  The original moderators were Christopher, Dr. Bruce Williams DVM,
Mike Janke, and me.  Later we were joined by Pam Sessoms who is also our
librarian and she and Eric maintain the archives which are absolutely
first rate, and by Troy Lynn Eckart as a moderator.  Christopher has
since passed away.  Bruce is on hiatus starting with when the Iraq War
began (no surprise since he is with the AFIP) but occasionally jumps in,
and Troy Lynn sometimes lacks time.
 
BTW, all of us originally go to know each other on the FML.
 
We had the FHL first on Yahoogroups as Ferret-Health because they
required the dashes then, but then because of problems with malfunctions
Christopher moved us to Smartgroups.  Current membership is over 1,900,
including many vets, though some of those only reply privately, and some
others stay below the radar.
 
Some of the member vets have given me permission to carry informative
posts of theirs to the FML when I have time to do so.
 
After we finally let go of the old Yahoo address (which is still listed
on a links page from Geocities which the hosting company has never let
me edit) that address was taken over by someone else who created a ferret
health list which has about 200 members if I recall right.  I don't know
if any vets are there.
 
It feels strange to hear that a third one is being created.
 
There are, of course, other helpful ferret health discussion groups such
as the forum at Miamiferrets.
 
-- Sukie (not a vet)
Ferret Health List co-moderator
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
FHL Archives fan
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
replacing
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org
International Ferret Congress advisor
http://www.ferretcongress.org
[Posted in FML issue 5192]