Dear Horse, I read Jonathan's contribution as a suggestion to end MF and continue MD. MD should contain discussions like the "Overdoing the Dynamic" thread that are led, edited and summarized. I support Jonathan's suggestions. I am not sure I agree with his idea of presenting (all) the summaries as articles on the website.
My earlier remarks on this subject on the MD list were: 18/12 23:23 +0100 "P.S. ... everyone taking their time would be the solution of our MD/MF-problem. The problem obviously is not one of the MF-list being too static. The problem is contributors on the MD-list being not enough disciplined. If we would only share new insights (or new combinations of old insights) and would just ignore postings we disagree with or find no value in (instead of trying to convince each other) ... we wouldn't be scaring off (altogether or to a disappointing MF-list) those without enough time or energy to read lots of irrelevant stuff to find the gems." 5/1 23:20 +0100 "I value the idea of summarizing at the end of discussions. I think the initiator of a proper thread (with proper starting question or thesis and sufficient contributors that hold on to it to merit summarizing) 'should' feel responsible for summarizing. I propose simply marking summaries by adding 'SUMM' at the beginning of the subject line. (So a summary of the 'Overdoing the Dynamic' thread would get as subject 'SUMM Overdoing the Dynamic' and summaries would al be recognizable by 'MD SUMM ...'.) It might be helpful to mark and/or describe in the introduction (usually minor) changes in 2nd (3rd, 4th ...) summaries compared with the 1st summary. As summaries may be longer than the average contribution, I am otherwise tempted not to read the whole 2nd summary (again) if I see that most is a unchanged copy of the 1st summary. More summaries (after continued discussion) could be marked SUMM2, SUMM3 etc.. In my opinion summarizing discussions AND some restraint by all contributors might make the MF-list unnecessary." With friendly greetings, Wim MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
