Brooks Helomick stated:
>So in addition to my suggestion above of having say a dozen or so subjects,
>it might be well to be thinking of breaking this list up into several broad
categories
>(fewer than 12 - say 3 to 6) and have the participants be able to pick which
>list(s) they want to sign up for. I question whether it would be within
>IA=92s administrative resource limits to offer this, but it might be
>offered in the context of setting up unmoderated lists if resources become
>an issue.
and Richard Karash asked for feedback on such suggestions.
I would be against such a break up. One of the values of this type of
interaction is that you have the chance to scan items that may not be in
your current area of interest, but that may be useful at other times.
Alternatively, they may prompt you to develop further interest in
something outside of your current sphere.
Various writers on environmental scanning emphasize the importance of what
biologists call requisite variety. A related rule being that the number of
sources that serve as input to a system need to be as varied as the
environment the system seeks to interpret.
The digests are not that long and I know I can always drop them into a
word processing application that allows me to use "Find" to move down the
messages I am interested in - which I have yet to do.
(BTW - much of Brook's punctuation came thru as =#'s, such as IA=92s)
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Host's Note: IA=92 shows up here because the original punctualtion was a
"curly quote". If you create you messages by writing in a word processor,
but, and then paste into a communications program, try to turn off the
fancy characters. We eliminated a lot before distributing Brook's msg,
but sorry we didn't get them all.
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