MAILING LISTS

Some subscribers to TeamLearning might be interested in a recent post 
"Re: The weaknesses of email discussion lists"  [Hake (2009)].  The 
abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: In response to my previous post "Re: The value of 
discussion lists" a subscriber wrote to me privately, complaining 
that his discussion list was "dead as a doornail . . .  having 
everything to do with its being 'open' -- in effect anyone who posts 
to the list doesn't really know who is being addressed or who gets 
copies of the postings. . .[so that] . . . the issues discussed are 
unlikely to be settled on their own merits. . . [but are]. . . 
instead subject to unpredictable interventions and manipulations of 
every imaginable sort."  Here I (a) point to two high-traffic lists, 
POD and Phys-L, as counter examples where at least a few of the 
issues discussed appear to be settled on their own merits, and (b) 
enumerate what I consider to be some weaknesses of email discussion 
lists as given in my listing of "Over Two-Hundred Education & Science 
Blogs."
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To access the complete 14 kB post please click on <http://tinyurl.com/yz4ao3x>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
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<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
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REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2009. "Re: The weaknesses of email discussion lists," 
online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at  <http://tinyurl.com/yz4ao3x>. 
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