Oh, by the way,
speaking about going elsewhere,
hearing about xmca participants yearning for more discussion of applied
issues of the school and the workplace,
reading about affinity groups in the Garrison & Kimball paper (one of
Mary's recommendations)
I have just been working on the olden days of the Xlists, when there was a
number of different sub-channels. The idea -- AND its realization -- was
not bad at all (although crosspostings and other forms of overflow could be
a little confusing). But it DID make space for more conversations in
parallel (at a slightly lower pace I'd say, intuitively, which is also a
good thing. The slower pace, I mean.) The reason that it was abandoned was:
reduced (to zero?) funding for list maintenance at LCHC.
Once upon a time I heard rumours about better opportunities for listserver
maintenance at the University of Helsinki. What happened with THAT?
Eva
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