Statalist is not, and never has been, moderated.
This is explicit in the FAQ. Marcello is the maintainer.
That still means a lot of work in handling all sorts of
administration.
Perhaps Roy is using the word in some loose or idiosyncratic
sense. What the Statalist FAQ means by moderation is that
some person acts as a human filter determining what gets
posted to the list. As said, and as most members should
know, we don't do this.
Nick
[email protected]
roy wada
> 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.
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