I thank Carrol for resurrecting my earlier suggestion. I definitely would like to see wider participation on pen-l, where only a handful of people account for the majority of the dialogue. I think that it would be very healthy to draw new penners in.
Would you like to try it? Carrol Cox wrote: > I found the following in an old Pen-L post from Michael: > > "A few times I have suggested that we take a day or two in which nobody > who has posted in the last two weeks can contribute anything. Only new > voices. My suggestion never met with enthusiasm." > > I think it would be an interesting experiment on either lbo or pen-l. > Neither list would suffer all that much even if there were absolute > silence for say two days out of every 6 weeks. I think the technology > exists for enforcing it even, though I'm not sure whether it would cost > additional fees or something. > > Carrol -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
