I don't understand the problem. I do not have the impression that there
is a lack of people willing to help (sure, the more the better). Are you
suggesting stata corp should just remove any reference to the stata list
from their web page? How is that going to change anything that is
happening on the list - it only might make it less likely for people to
actually find it. I really don't see a problem that needs to be
solved...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of roy wada
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 6:44 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: re: a wish list for Statalist
>
>
> 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 [email protected],
> 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
>
> ***********
>
> 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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