Richard K. Moore wrote: > The idea here is for ppi to be like a newspaper or a > wire service, from which each > reader can pick and choose what's of interest and discard > / ignore the remainder. Sounds a reasonable approach. > People have responded to the ppi concept by sending in an increasing volume > of very interesting material. I would take this as an indication that the format is successful. > I'm not sure whether to increase the ppi > traffic still further Well, within reason! > You can be sure in any case that postings will continue to be > highly selective. (Which in itself is of course commentary) > One possibility would be to relaunch a separate cyberjournal list which > would receive a subset of the ppi postings Hmm. Doubtful about this; wouldn't you then end up with two lists possibly competing with each other? If volume/quality is seen as a problem then be more selective? If frequency is seens as a problem then is offering a digest an option, i.e., fewer but longer posts? Keep up the good work! RW
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