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Re: Cultural Merger Tentative proposal
The NDT-A is comatose. It averages about a posting a month. It was
started two years ago to serve a need, and I think the need has
deteriorated. The NDT-L traffic has thinned out, even in mid-season, and
the idea of using the other listserv for announcements has just never
taken off. So rather than immerse the CEDA-L or NDT-L beneath a tsunami
of obscure net evidence offerings, the NDT-A could become the evidence
repository. The disk allotment for its archives ought to be sufficient,
assuming people use a little sense and don't start posting their life
story with hourly updates.
Several downsides: the archives of a listserv are quite difficult to
manipulate. Several folks a week write me asking how, and I give them
hemmed and hawed versions of "not sure -- rtfm" because my own efforts
to scavenge the archives have met only with limited success. Space on
someone's web page <Debate.Net, Debate Central, Forensic Interweave,
Wayne, etc.> would be a much better solution, but...
Downside #2: Maintenance is a big job. I've got my dissertation to write
in the next few months. All the people who maintain the web pages listed
above have a lot of work to keep them busy. Listserv maintenance is a
<relatively> light task, but if I have to help twelve dozen people learn
to plough through the archives, it could get heavy. And maintaining a
constant stream of input on a web page would be an even bigger job.
But, tentatively, I can offer the NDT-A up as a possible solution, if
nothing better appears.
Doyle Srader
University of Georgia
<706> 548-9938
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