Re: [Gretl-users] New mailing list? (was Re: Johansen question)
1- I do not feel uncomfortable with the number of "methodological"
messages that receives this list.
2- I understand that someone could prefer don't to receive such
messages. A different and intermediate possibility to that discused
until now may be to setup a "methods" topic for the list. The 'mailin'
server allows for setting up different "topics" for the same list, so
that the user can unsubscribe for the topic he/she is not interested in.
Each message from this topic will be labeled appropiately in the subject.
El 03/05/11 09:25, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti escribió:
Over the years, I've seen several attempts at setting up public
discussion places for debating econometrics at a professional level:
mailing lists, forums, you name it. All have failed, for one reason or
another. In my view, for a methods-related list to have success, you
need to have two things happening: (1) keep it high-profile (2) keep it
alive.
In order to achieve (1), the list needs to be moderated, so messages
with subject "What is this cointegration thing people keep talking
about?" would be silently zapped before they see the light of day. But
then, no-one subscribes to a list where a new subject appears once every
four months, so ||: no-one subscribes, no-one answers, no-one posts :||
(sorry for the musical notation).
3- This was exactly the experience with an "Econometria" list in
Spanish, that I managed some years ago.
4- I do not vote now for creating a new list or a topic for this list,
but I think we will need to monitor the traffic of this messages on the
list to analyze the advisability to take any of this measures in the future.
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