RE: st: Gentle resister

["Schaffer, Mark E" <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>]

...though it looks like it's possible to set up the RSS feed so that I am alerted about every new post.  Might give that a try.

--Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Schaffer, Mark E
> Sent: 15 April 2014 17:37
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: st: Gentle resister
> 
> Hmm... that's a big difference.  Sometimes threads become interesting when
> major contributors weigh in.  Under Old Statalist, I would know when that
> happened; under the RSS setup, I wouldn't.  :o(
> 
> --Mark
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Cohen, Elan
> > Sent: 15 April 2014 14:06
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: RE: st: Gentle resister
> >
> > John,
> >
> > See the following post by Phil Schumm a couple of weeks back.  I've set up
> RSS
> > with Outlook Express and get "emails" about posts the same way I did with
> the
> > old Statalist.  The only difference is that you only get a message when a
> thread
> > starts and not for all posts.
> >
> > http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2014-03/msg01306.html
> >
> > - Elan
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of John Antonakis
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:31
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: Re: st: Gentle resister
> >
> > Great post, Sam. Like you and everyone else, we appreciate work that has
> > gone to all this. Personally, I much prefer to the listserv e-mail format.
> >
> > Silly question--I have not figured this out yet--is there a way to get
> > the forum to send us an e-mail when a posting is made? Then some of the
> > diehards can still have their e-mail format--and then still go on the
> > forum when interested in the discussion.
> >
> > Best,
> > J.
> >
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> > On 15.04.2014 00:54, Lucas wrote:
> > > I appreciate all the hard work you have done, Marcello, and I
> > > appreciate all the hard work of everyone involved in the list,
> > > including the hard hardware work of Bill Mahoney.  People like Bill
> > > are often the unsung heroes and heroines of all the analyses analysts
> > > conduct and present. And, I appreciate that change is inevitable.
> > >
> > > That said, I will sound a, hmm, how to put it--a less than celebratory
> > > note about the new forum format.
> > >
> > > I just registered, and perhaps it will grow on me.  I think it
> > > probably will not.  I find it a bit . . . incongruous.
> > >
> > > On the one hand, massive computer storage capability and amazingly
> > > advanced search capability together render "organizing" material
> > > completely unnecessary--at least, the poor organization humans do.
> > > Google is one of the most, if not THE most successful companies on the
> > > planet. And their core product, the door through which 90 percent of
> > > their customers originally entered, is a simple square box in which
> > > one can type anything a keyboard allows and some things a keyboard
> > > does not (e.g., images), and the magic of google will bring--without
> > > ANY human categorization effort--relevant material to one's screen.
> > >
> > > This is how the retiring statalist worked, especially the archives--no
> > > one needed to categorize anything. The text itself was the source for
> > > search engines.
> > >
> > > Now, with the "advance" of the forum, instead of mining the steadily
> > > growing stockpile of information, people are supposed to "tag" their
> > > posts and, more important, place them in the appropriate collection:
> > > 1)general, 2)mata, 3)how the forum works, and 4)sandpile, er, uh, I
> > > mean box.  Why?  We can see the problems with this approach already.
> > >
> > > First, there have *already* been mis-classifications, which would seem
> > > to increase the work for someone (or, eventually, it will be very
> > > tough to find the relevant material). It is unclear whether and how
> > > such misclassifications will be corrected.
> > >
> > > Second, many postings combine material--this is the way of work, and
> > > human thought, and cannot be easily eradicated (without prohibitive
> > > costs in intelligibility, if it is even possible).
> > >
> > > Third, navigability has already been questioned.  The solution is for
> > > forum users to set up stuff on their browser. Again, why? Just to get
> > > the functionality old statalist had for someone arriving the very
> > > first time?  This is progress?
> > >
> > > Again, I completely understand the need to retire equipment, and thank
> > > those who managed aging equipment as long as they did.  I am truly
> > > grateful.
> > >
> > > I just wonder--why do we reinvent the wheel and call it progress,
> > > when, instead of a 360-degree round rolling object we now have a
> > > kludgy object that has two straight sides attached to one long curve.
> > > It does not roll.  It does not rest.  It does not work as well as what
> > > we had before.  Why don't we just move the wheel that works to a new
> > > platform?
> > >
> > > Anyway, maybe experience will help me see and feel this as an advance.
> > >   But, judging from many other "advances," I can say--it is quite
> > > possible that most will experience a loss of functionality, and, while
> > > they may accept it (because they appreciate the hard work of those who
> > > run it day-in and day-out, and there is no clear alternative), it will
> > > reduce the utility of the resource for them.
> > >
> > > Respectfully
> > > Sam
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