At 09:27 PM 4/25/2004, Donald Macnaughton wrote:
For example, as Jackie noted, allowing the link to be disabled means that the readers of EdStat will no longer receive the in- formative messages from Rich Ulrich, Herman Rubin, Radford Neal, Duncan Murdoch, Paige Miller, Robert Lundqvist, Art Kendall, Aleks Jakulin, Jerry Dallal, Eric Bohlman, Glen Barnett, Thom Baguley, and others.
In addition, allowing the link to be disabled means that readers of sci.stat.edu will no longer receive the informative messages from Paul Bernhardt, Don Burrill, Robert Dawson, and others.
If one of the above would volunteer to move the list to THEIR server and maintain the link, this would be excellent. Has anyone above volunteered?
I don't see any problem IF someone feels that the edstat list has value over and above the newslist ... and it only takes a moment ... to subscribe to a new edstat list ... and post to both the news list AND edstat in it's new reincarnation, If a person feels that both outlets can benefit from their posts ... how long does it take to post to both?
Besides, I think Jackie has publicly said that neither NCSU will continue edstat when she leaves for her new assignment AND she will not be able to continue on in this capacity. So, we are at the good will of someone (if anyone) who is willing to keep the edstat list going ... under conditions that are acceptable to THAT person.
There are + and - features of both arrangements ... but to my mind ... the key one is keeping the edstat list alive ... and "if" to keep it alive we have to jetison the newslist connection ... I think it is a small price to pay.
If edstat in it's new form drifts off the charts ... well, that suggests that edstat is not really seen as a valuable resource ... and under those circumstances ... should be exorcised. But, I am guessing that most subscribers don't really feel that way.
Some writers have pointed out disadvantages of keeping the link. I discuss disadvantages that I'm aware of in the appendix.
Dennis Roberts
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