From: leata-AT-ix.netcom.com
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:22:58 -0600
Subject: Re: M-FEM: Re: Is this list alive?


At 02:19 AM 3/27/97 -0500, Jerry wrote:
>
>Expanded answer:
>
>i) Yes. There are people here and periodic discussion.
>ii) No. This list isn't "official" yet. Back in the early Fall, this list
>was created in a technical sense but never announced. At the time, Lisa
>Rogers -- I believe -- planned to be the moderator. But, she died
>unexpectantly on September 15 at the age of 35. A few months ago (early
>January?) there was some discussion about this and someone volunteered to
>be the moderator. Yet, the list still isn't "official" (can't say why:
>perhaps it has something to do with submitting the list proposal.
>Malgosia?).

Actually it is an official list and has been announced--twice really, since
I didn't include all the appropriate information the first time. It was
however, as Ang pointed out to me, essentially a closed list since the link
on the Spoons homepage was not alive. In other words, anyone searching for
a list related to feminism wouldn't find it--just current spoons
subscribers who saw the announcement. This has very recently been corrected
by Jon and malgosia when it was called to their attention.

I avoided usenet, but did send an announcement to a couple of women's
socialist groups, and at least a few of their members are subscribed.

>I believe that this list should establish its own identity and discussion
>separate from m-int and the other lists at spoons. 

I agree with Jerry. On the other hand, consensus was pretty strong in
previous discussion to have this be an unmoderated forum, so people are
free to post as they wish.

One thing the list needs is a "moderator". I have asked several people
privately to take this over, but so far everyone is already as
overcommitted as I am. So here is a general appeal. The person has to at
least a technical representative including subscribing to the
marx-administration list. This takes very little in time or skills. It
really needs to be someone that would have the time and interest to
encourage discussion too, as Lisa Rogers would have.

I think Yoshie would be wonderful. How about it? (As an incentive, I just
happen to have Jose-Carlos Mariategui III's e-mail address. He's very
charming despite of his rather hard-to-understand English. Grin.).

Sally Ryan