Dear Horse,
I read Jonathan's contribution as a suggestion to end MF and
continue MD. MD should contain discussions like the "Overdoing
the Dynamic" thread that are led, edited and summarized.
I support Jonathan's suggestions. I am not sure I agree with his
idea of presenting (all) the summaries as articles on the
website.
My earlier remarks on this subject on the MD list were:
18/12 23:23 +0100
"P.S. ... everyone taking their time would be the solution of our
MD/MF-problem. The problem obviously is not one of the MF-list
being too static. The problem is contributors on the MD-list
being not enough disciplined. If we would only share new insights
(or new combinations of old insights) and would just ignore
postings we disagree with or find no value in (instead of trying
to convince each other) ... we wouldn't be scaring off
(altogether or to a disappointing MF-list) those without enough
time or energy to read lots of irrelevant stuff to find the
gems."
5/1 23:20 +0100
"I value the idea of summarizing at the end of discussions.
I think the initiator of a proper thread (with proper starting
question or thesis and sufficient contributors that hold on to it
to merit summarizing) 'should' feel responsible for summarizing.
I propose simply marking summaries by adding 'SUMM' at the
beginning of the subject line. (So a summary of the 'Overdoing
the Dynamic' thread would get as subject 'SUMM Overdoing the
Dynamic' and summaries would al be recognizable by 'MD SUMM
...'.)
It might be helpful to mark and/or describe in the introduction
(usually minor) changes in 2nd (3rd, 4th ...) summaries compared
with the 1st summary. As summaries may be longer than the average
contribution, I am otherwise tempted not to read the whole 2nd
summary (again) if I see that most is a unchanged copy of the 1st
summary.
More summaries (after continued discussion) could be marked
SUMM2, SUMM3 etc..
In my opinion summarizing discussions AND some restraint by all
contributors might make the MF-list unnecessary."
With friendly greetings,
Wim
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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