The idea that ISCO should publish a newsletter was first suggested by ISCO President David Usher to Editor John McMurtrie at a 2005 meeting in Glasgow. The first issue went out to less than 100 subscribers on 11th July 2005. Today there are well over 3,000 on the mailing list and the actual readership is estimated at well over 5,000 because so many organisations circulate it to all their staff on their internal intranet systems.