[NLA] Info: Focus, please

[David J. Rosen]

NLA Colleagues,

I realize that some NLA postings recently have aggravated subscribers. 
Some have e-mailed me, some have posted to the list, some have just 
unsubscribed.

I would like to step as moderator and urge those who post to consider that:

1.  Irony and sarcasm are often not understood, or just create heat, not 
light.  I recommend against messages with irony or sarcasm on electronic 
lists -- the medium does not accommodate them well.

2.  The NLA list is among the most active (is it the >most< active?) 
adult literacy education electronic list. That has pluses and minuses. 
If you want to discuss a public policy-related idea, please >do< discuss 
it on this list.  But if you want to discuss other issues raised in 
someone's message, or the style of the message, please e-mail the 
individual (not the nearly 700 people on the NLA list) and discuss it 
off-line. Many subscribers now get 500 or more e-mail messages a week. 
That's a lot to sort through. Please be courteous -- post messages which 
follow the guidelines of this list.  I will post them in my next message.

3.  I am not trying to discourage discussion -- indeed it would be 
refreshing to see some new people posting messages -- just trying (like 
a pilot in a storm) to keep the list on course.

David J. Rosen
NLA List Moderator

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