Neil, This group was originally set up to help communicate new information to busy working scientists and the interested public. The idea is that people would use their powers of discrimination to determine what was most important to communicate to a broad group and self moderate.
I suggest that those who want to engage in broader, more frequent, and less moderated discussion either create their own group or take over [email protected]. The membership of climateintervention largely overlaps this one. I would turn management of that group over to some combination of John Nissen, Andrew Lockley, and/or Alvia Gaskill, who have been the most prolific long-term posters on [email protected]. Best, Ken ___________________________________________________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA [email protected] http://dge.stanford.edu/DGE/CIWDGE/labs/caldeiralab +1 650 704 7212; fax: +1 650 462 5968 On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Neil Farbstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Quick back and forth is the lifeblood of this group. I'm glad you > realize that because that's what makes it interesting. Otherwise the > interchange of information will take place at a glacial pace. > > On Dec 15, 8:28 pm, Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Several people have replied cc-ing the entire group to my poll, others > > replied to me alone. > > > > Not surprisingly, the ones to me alone were in general more assertive > about > > restricting the amount of *noise *emails sent to the entire group. > > > > While I have yet to develop a full set of new guidelines for the New > Year, I > > will start a new guideline right now: > > > > *Anyone who recently averages more than a few posts per week to the > > geoengineering googlegroup will, beyond that level, be expected to adhere > to > > a higher standard of information content both with respect to scope and > > quality of information. > > * > > *Posting at an average rate approaching one per day will increase your > > probability that all of your emails will be moderated, and thus delay > > posting of your emails. > > > > For people's first post of the week, the assumption will be that it > should > > be posted unless there is an egregious violation of guidelines. > > > > For people's second post of the day, it will be a presumption that it > will > > be rejected unless it has high information content or is a significant > > contribution to a quick back-and-forth in a single thread. > > * > > Best, > > > > Ken > > > > ___________________________________________________ > > Ken Caldeira > > > > Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology > > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > > > > [email protected]:// > dge.stanford.edu/DGE/CIWDGE/labs/caldeiralab > > +1 650 704 7212; fax: +1 650 462 5968 > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<geoengineering%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
