st: re: a wish list for Statalist

["roy wada" <roywada@hotmail.com>]

Yes, Marcello has moderated it for a long time, and has done a good job, but 
I imagine most people end up going directly to the Stata website, which is 
the dominant listing on web searches. If you have an independent work of 
writing that is mainly distributed through a corporate website, what does it 
mean?

The maintained appearance is that the Stata Corp is not actively involved in 
providing Statalist, which means that it will not devote more resources 
towards its operation. The result is the minimalist format that we have. 
Potential users may be less likely to volunteer something that end up 
looking more like a duplication of tech-support@stata.com, especially when 
it gets posted on www.stata.com/statalist. Altruism is funny that way. 
Appearance is everything as they say.

By providing a web interface the Stata Corp is already involved, and since 
it is involved, I would like it to provide an upgraded format for forum that 
is reasonably straightforward to implement and very valuable to have. I 
would not impose on Marcello to do it, but it is easy enough to do, 
teenagers have been doing it for years, you can put it into Google Groups if 
you have to.

Roy

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Kit Baum said

I don't understand. Statalist **is** hosted 'somewhere else' -- at the 
Harvard School of Public Health -- and moderated by one of its faculty 
members, Marcello Pagano. StataCorp does provide a web interface to 
Statalist postings, but that does not involve hosting anything at StataCorp; 
they merely mirror the contents of the HSPH server. I'm not sure what 
"completely disengaged from Statalist" implies, as StataCorp is not involved 
with the list, nor does it have any say over the content.

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