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From:  Paul Sinasohn <pauls@c...>
Paul Sinasohn <pauls@c...>
Date:  Tue Nov 28, 2000  5:42 pm
Subject:  Choralist structure and organization (in response to a suggestion )


Choralist used to be hosted at Univ. of Colorado, though the main driver is
a professor at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Now, though,
it is supported by ChoralNet, Inc., a non-profit organization, supported by
donations from individuals, the ACDA, and a few (small) companies. The
list/web manager is at one of the universities in Arizona. Several years
ago, choralist was split into 3 separate lists - List, Talk, and Academe -
all with different focuses.

ChoraList is moderated, and is designed for position/concert/program
announcements, and for requests for data or suggestions. Replies to requests
are supposed to be sent to the requestor, who compiles and posts. In fact,
replies - by default - go to the poster, not the list.

C-Talk is for general posts, discussions of issues (choral and otherwise),
and social chat. It is mirrored to the newsgroup rec.music.makers.choral

C-Academe is for specific research questions, mostly about original
manuscripts or stuff like that. (I don't read it)

Though I can't speak for the ChoralNet organization, they might be amenable
to hosting Vocalist. I doubt that they would devote any energy to
moderation, even though Choralist is moderated (I think the moderators have
the power to redirect to ChoralTalk, the chat list). To contact him, David
Topping, try manager@c...

Maybe we need another list, VocalTalk, for social and non-singing topics?

Paul Sinasohn, who is a also member of ChoraList and ChoralTalk

-----Original Message-----
From: dorisopran@a... [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 7:20 AM
To:
vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] another vote


In a message dated 11/27/00 9:24:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
annabelleq@y... writes:

<< Also is there a rule about posting too many messages in one day? It
looks
like no. Should there be? If I missed a memo I want to know. <===
annabelle
>>

I remember some egroup directives, but not too well. We always got a weekly

mailing of all the list protocol in the Finnish-based days with Marco. [I'm

sure a few of them are still on my MacDinosaur's hard drive and can be
retrieved if enough people are interested.] It was most specific in its
recommendations of topics, length, labeling, and, indeed, about flames.

I was on a moderated listserv (for teachers of English to speakers of other
languages) where nothing off-topic was permitted. It worked extremely well,

and all of the messages were high interest (to those of us fascinated with
syntactic and semantic hairsplitting and myriad pedagogic possibilities.)
Often when someone took a poll or survey, the responses went to that
individual, and s/he posted the tabulation of the results to the list. I
always marveled at how the moderator had time to manage the listserv and
teach as well, as she had to read each message and either post it or reject
it and tell the would-be poster the reason why. People were careful not to
quote long passages from prior posts; there would be a brief recount of what

they were responding to. A lot of exchanges moved off list, not because
they
were nasty, but they were more specifically for the individuals involved.

This T-ESOList resides with CUNY, the same as choralist. Is there any
chance
of getting vocalist into CUNY's system?

Doris Long Thurber
soprano in New Jersey
aka: canteclada@a...






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