[1607] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Chronicle of Higher Education: An Alternative to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Roberts)
Mon Sep 12 18:47:46 2005
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:47:22 -0400
From: Jeff Roberts <jcroberts@gmail.com>
To: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050912170905.vcw5l0iit9twk0ws@webmail.mit.edu>
cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
Reply-To: thejoker@alum.mit.edu
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> You do realize that is exactly why "mit-news" exists?
No, actually I didn't ... in fact I don't think I ever knew mit-news
existed, though I guessed that such a list might have existed in the
past. How active is it? About how many people subscribe (current
students as well as alums)? About how many posts does it get?
Mailman has no info on the list, so I would guess it's an Athena list
from "back in the day", but I could be wrong.
I agree with John that it's really more a question of who is
interested in this kind of information, and how a source of such
information could be advertised to the people who might like to see it
but don't read the source material regularly (I come across a lot of
these articles through organizations that have a focus on campus
planning, which I imagine most MIT students aren't part of).
Maybe if mit-news were advertised it would become popular again ...
then again, maybe an e-mail list isn't the right answer, but rather a
bulletin board-style web page that could optionally e-mail out new
postings to subscribers. Setting up something like that might be a
job for the MIT news office, the Tech, the UA/GSC, or the like.
Anyway, I'll leave it to people smarter than me to figure out how to
get this news out. I just thought it would be nice to have a place to
post interesting articles that come my way, so that they'd be seen by
more than us mit-talk hangers-on.
Jeff
On 9/12/05, Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@mit.edu> wrote:
> Jeff Roberts writes:
> >> Does anyone else think there should be something set up expressly for
> >> posting news articles relating to MIT, higher ed. campus issues, &c.?
>
> You do realize that is exactly why "mit-news" exists?
> + R
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