Re: [asa] Re: the ASA email list

These are all great suggestions ... but this long thread (at least 30 posts
threaded on my gmail account) looks like my university's "committee on
committees"! :-)

Seriously... Loren, I think your suggestion is what the ASA blog should be
about. A well designed blog with such substantive posts would be a great
resource for discussion as well as an excellent public face for the ASA. It
involves almost no cost other than a little time from someone to set it
up and do a little maintainence now and then (I'd gladly volunteer). The
'90's are over -- we should be blogging, not just emailing.

On 6/13/06, Loren Haarsma <lhaarsma@calvin.edu> wrote:
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> I'm not suggesting that we radically change the rules to this list.
> This list, under the current rules, clearly serves some people well.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 16:06:40 2006