Re: More thoughts about the mailing lists on specific topics

[vuca@envi.env.civil.saitama-u.ac.jp (Vu Thanh Ca)]

Hello,

I support this idea. Please put it in mind, An Hai.

Best,

Ca.

At  8:47 PM 97.7.8 -0500, Tuan V Nguyen wrote:
>Hello folks,
>
>
>>    I think it is not a good idea to split VNSA into small mailing lists
>on>specific topics. I find it more useful to open regular thread for each
>>topic and introduce a good naming scheme to access the articles later.
>
>        I agree with anh AiViet on this totally. The problem of splitting a
>forum into subforum and subsubforum and ... is that it creates a subgroup of
>non-communicative. It has not been proved to be workable. In VACETS, this
>has been done and the result was quite disappointed (to me anyway).
>
>        Some time back, I commented that knowledge is usually gained by
>interacting between disciplines, not within discipline. "Head in sand" way
>of business is not a good way of communicating at all. I, for example, find
>the discussion on random walk last year very useful since physicists seem to
>have different way of approach to problem. If I stick such a discussion
>within my circle of stat and math people, it would be boring and no new idea
>can be gained.
>
>
>        Tuan