Message-ID: <199701031841.UAA05168@linux.lisse.na> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 20:41:12 +0200 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Your voices To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Hi,>I would like to hear your thoughts on the previous message concerning the
>participation of developing country subscribers on this list. I have been a
>member for a few months now, and the messages from Northern subscribers
seem to >outnumber those from the South by a large degree. It seems to me it is a
You can count the ones down under on one hand, because it is too bloody expensive to subscribe to. 1 KB can cost you up to 3 French Francs either way.
This is however not new.
>listserv for Northern development professionals to debate approaches to
Professionals? Mainly wannabes and lately bible thumpers.
>development. Not that this is not an important debate! But, considering
that >the theme of the list is technology transfer in international development,
is >VITA taking steps to encourage Southern participation? The first that comes
toHow would you do that?
>mind is to more strictly moderate discussion, so that Southern participants
canWould you be willing to moderate this discussion?
>afford to subscribe (i.e., they don't get deluged with long messages not
Still too few people down here have access, there is not much way around that. However your message is helpful, because it comes from the north and raises the issue, again. :-)-O
>directly relevant to the topic). How about two listservs, one to serve the
>discussions which currently dominate the list, and a more restricted one to
>facilitate technology transfer in international development?
'Nuther one? There are numerous lists on this topic, some are gatewayed from the Usenet News and receive a number of spams because the list managers don't know how or want to set up an easy spam filter.
Anyway, I got decent access now, and will get even better access RSN so I just delete the postings I find irrelevant.
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