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From: Martha Gimenez <gimenez@csf.Colorado.EDU>
To: PROGRESSIVE POPULATION NETWORK <ppn@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Self-Moderation
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Dear PPNrs:

In light of the nature of recent exchanges in PPN, I have introduced
quantitative or self-moderation.  Using CSF's limit software, all members
of PPN, including myself, are limited to no more than 15 of the last
hundred messages submitted.  This number can be lowered or raised,
depending on how the process works out.  PPN will remain an unmoderated
list in all other respects, with the expectation that its members will
abide by the rules of civil communication included in the welcome message
everyone receives when joining PPN.  I will be forwarding those rules in
my next message.


Messages to PPN must demonstrate an effort by the sender to do one or
several of the following:

1.  to engage the membership in the consideration, examination, critique,
or elaboration of a sociological insight, proposition, theory, concept,
research finding about population issues.

2.  to engage the membership in the theoretical discussion of a newly
published and controversial book or journal article.

3.  to engage the membership in the discussion of a book or journal
article the sender found so interesting that he or she felt compelled to
share it with PPN.

4.  to engage the membership in the discussion of a policy issue.

There are other possibilities, of course, but the key word is engage.
                                                              ^^^^^^

This means that painstaking arguments between two members should be kept
private, unless they are framed not as a way of scoring points but as
efforts to present well organized, interesting and compelling arguments.

In addition, PPN welcomes these kinds of messages:

1.   announcements about employment opportunities, post-doctoral
    	fellowships and other job possibilities.

2.   messages having to do with professional activities
	e.g., conference announcements, calls for papers, informations
	about teach-ins,  etc.

3.   messages about teaching:  asking for and supplying information  
	e.g., help in identifying relevant sources, syllabi, shared
	experience in teaching techniques, requests for input for
	collections of syllabi, etc. 

4.   messages about relevant Internet resources and new softwares,
     CD roms, e-journals, videos, films, and T.V. programs.


And finally,  please do not cc a personal reply to PPN unless you think 
the entire list will find your remarks absolutely riveting and, when
responding to a message, delete most of it and include only the 
relevant parts.


Bureaucratically yours,


Martha E. Gimenez
PPN Editor

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*	Martha E. Gimenez                    *
*	Department of Sociology              *
*	University of Colorado at Boulder    *
*	http://csf.colorado.edu/gimenez/     *
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