Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:24:23 +0100 From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org> Subject: M-PSY: Home for marxism-psych Spoons collective, IMO, are being generous and helpful to people looking for alternative ways of keeping the lists running. The absolute deadline for marxism-psych is May 23rd and if there is a bit of a further delay it is not as if the subscription lists will be lost. I have had one helpful suggestion of a discussion about a wider (not specifically marxist by way of title) progressive list on mental health, which I think could be part of the answer. Can I appeal again for anyone to start collating a list of what exists at the moment on this? However my preference personally remains that marxism-psych has a niche in a wider psycho-ecology of a marxism-space. I am therefore hoping that as the other lists busy themselves in sorting out their own future this will not be forgotten. Even if lists go to different sites there are some interesting ideas about mirror site techniques. At the moment marxism-international and marxism-and-sciences have moved with some speed to a home at Emory. Marxism-thaxis has apparently unanimously (at least nem. con.) decided to accept the offer of Hans Ehrbar to attempt to reproduce marxism-space as much as people want, on a secure dedicated computer out of Utah. Hans who was moderator for marxism-space within Spoons, is also technical moderator of marxism-general. This is unmoderated for content but recently has had a tight restriction on the number of posts per day. On marxism-general there is a debate about whether to accept that offer or to go to a progressive not-for-profit commercial cooperative, New York Transfer. These decisions are psychological decisions even more than they are technical ones. If any members of marxism-psych are not subscribed to marxism-general or marxism-transition (set up for these issues of transfer, but rather low volume) then I would urge them to consider participating. This may be more valuable at the moment than a debate on marxism-psych. BTW the who command was disabled on all lists some months ago because Spoons was finding us swamped by hackers who used automatic devices to collect lists of subscribers and then subscribe them to 1001 other lists in a way very difficult to track down apparently. I do not think any of us is rushing on marxism-psych but I would be willing to publish here the membership list if enough people want it and not many people object. Its about 80 to 90 and fairly international. Chris Burford London --- from list marxism-psych-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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