Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 19:06:59 -0600 Subject: Current model for the new marxism space Some of you may have seen Malgosia's posting this morning describing her vision for the marxism space. After a discussion involving Malgosia, Lisa, and Hans, we decided to modulate this vision as follows. We propose that the marxism space supported by the spoon collective should have the following three main components: - One general-purpose list that is not moderated at all. - One broad low-noise list with no subject specialization, for the purpose of general discussion of all marxist issues, moderated by a team which enforces certain formal rules that require the participants to make substantive posts, and that prevent individuals from hogging the discussion. The following set of rules might be sufficient: (1) Only list members can contribute. (2) Every contributor can only make one contribution per day to a given thread. This gives everybody a chance to reply to you before you write again. (3) No contributor can send more than 3 postings per day. (4) combining threads in the same post is forbidden. I.e. you are not allowed to circumvent rule (3) by writing one message which should really be two or more messages. (5) Repetition is forbidden. These rules are designed yield a high enough substance-to-noise ratio that subscribers who have poor email access or have to pay for email find it worth their time and money to subscribe. In such a list, it will also be feasible for us to have a team of translators on call so that people can post in their own languages and have their contributions translated within 48 hours. Further refinements (indexing the archives by key words) etc. may be envisioned in the future. It is hoped that such a list will carry a high load of substantive debate on a world wide scale. - A set of specialized, focused lists for subjects of special interests, subjects that might benefit from being discussed in a more rescricted environment, subjects that interest people who don't want to deal with the traffic on the general list, etc. Hans Ehrbar --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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