Re: keep list open

I really hate to get involved in these issues, but chalk me up for keeping
this list open as well.  This list gets a lot of junk, it's true, but
sometimes I don't know if the junk is worse than the complaints about it.
In any event, the complaints also serve a purpose because they do regulate
this list somewhat because they register unhappiness with an ongoing
discussion.  One poster had another good suggestion - if you don't
like what you see, start a discussion of your own that you find
worthwhile.  That is the only way this list should be regulated. If
people want to have a list dedicated to professional discussions only, or
if people want to have a moderated list, they are fully within their
rights to start one up.  Barring that, save "professionalism" for the
classroom, the faculty lounge and the trade journal.  This list exists for
a wider audience, and I know some of us forget there is a world out there
outside our discipline.  And the "one post per day" idea is not a good one
- unenforcible and not complied with even by some who came out in its
support.

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Mark Douglas Whitaker wrote:

> Hi there,
>       I am completely against this one post a day idea. It's easy enough to 
>skip
> messages. This is an individual responsibility that should be kept
> individualized and attuned to whomever wants to read or ignore certain posts. 
>       Since no one is interested in exactly the same issues, if this is a list
> for expanding knowledge about world systems in general, keep the channels
> open and let individual list members decide this issue for themselves as it
> comes into their email box instead of several imposing a collective
> framework to solve their personal dilemma. 
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Mark Whitaker
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> 
> 
> 

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