Re: the ASA email list

For my part, I think the main reason a Web forum was less advantageous
is that it is a more passive medium. I find it hard to believe that
anything but a subset of the individuals on this list would ever
exceed the 4 post/day limit if they had to log in to a website every
20 minutes to find out if somebody responded. Maybe RSS feeds would
be a solution to this?

Chris

On 6/10/06, Bill Hamilton <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> For the most part I agree with Glenn;
> 1) Limiting posts per day -- although I can understand the reasoning that leads
> to it -- is restricting discussion and bad.
> 2) If we used a web-based discussion forum, that would solve the problem of
> having to delete emails we don't want to read (And I agree with Glenn on the
> kinds of messages I don't want to read: messages about gays, same sex marriage,
> and (mostly) politics. Most of these get deleted when they appear in my in
> box.)
>
> Having said that, there is considerable merit in a couple of suggestions from
> Loren and Jack: It would be very useful to be able to discuss papers in
> process, or research that individuals are considering, or is in progress. And
> Jack's suggestion that someone -- perhaps the individual who starts the thread
> -- should summarize it once discussion has reached a point where a summary can
> be written is very good.
>
> I submit that using a web-based discussion forum could help realize both of
> these objectives, since it would tend to channelize discussions so participants
> could pick the ones they wanted to take part in and it would be relatively easy
> to look through a topic to summarize it (of course this can also be done with
> the archive format we use)
>
> What disadvantages of a web-based forum caused you folks to vote against it? I
> was taking a holiday at the time (actually I was being a workaholic for GM. Now
> I'm retired and can blab to my heart's content)
>
>
>
> Bill Hamilton
> William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
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Received on Sat Jun 10 08:39:48 2006