Re: [Gretl-users] New mailing list? (was Re: Johansen question)
2 cents' worth:
I also like Sven's point about discouraging general methods questions from the
gretl-users list. My impression is that those are usually pretty basic and I tend to
ignore them unless they relate to a particular interest of mine. I read this as an
argument for having a separate list for such questions, in contrast to Charles Koss's
first post (unless of course the better solution is to refer all method questions to other
sources).
PS
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Subject: [Gretl-users] New mailing list? (was Re: Johansen question)
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Before creating a new list for discussion of econometrics, maybe it
would be worthwhile to check if another list already serves the same
purpose (see for example
http://www.feweb.vu.nl/econometriclinks/mailing/).
Good idea, but it seems there isn't such a thing.
Even if we come to the conclusion that there is a niche to be
filled, maybe it would make sense to at least coordinate with
the R people?
Possibly -- though it seems there are tons of R lists so I don't
know how interested they'd be.
OTOH, I'm not overly enthusiastic to have general econometric
discussions on gretl-users. It's true that the traffic here is
not high, and this is also due to the fact that in the past
off-topic (=not gretl-specific) questions have been discouraged.
But this low traffic makes it possible that a relevant number of
subscribers are actually following most (if not all) threads. I
fear that if general econometric questions are discussed (which
I believe will be quite basic most of the time) then some people
might pay less attention to the list in general, with
detrimental effects on the gretl-specific issues.
I think this point is well made. I'm still mulling the issue over,
but I tend to agree with you.
Allin Cottrell
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