Re: [asa] Re: the ASA email list

  I'm not suggesting that we radically change the rules to this list.
This list, under the current rules, clearly serves some people well.

  My idea is that we create a second list which enforces more scholarly,
longer, and less frequent postings. I also like the idea of posters being
ASA-or-sister-organization members only (or temporary guests), although
that's certainly negotiable.

  Two lists could benefit each other. If a discussion on the slower, more
scholarly list was heating up, such that a few participants wanted to make
shorter and more frequent exchanges, they could move their discussion to
the quicker, less moderated list. On the flip side, if a new person
joined the quick-exchange list and asked one of the "standard questions"
which have been asked and answered many times before, they could be
pointed to a longer post in the archives of the more scholarly list.

  If there were two lists, it might even be possible to ease up on the
moderation of the quick-exchange list. Some rules (such as the
four-posts-per-day rule) could be eased, and the moderator wouldn't have
to feel obligated to read very post on the quick-exchange list. (List
members could email the moderator, pointing to specific posts, if they
thought someone was starting to grossly violate the few remaining rules.)

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Received on Tue Jun 13 14:37:09 2006