Date:         Thu, 26 Sep 1996 04:02:01 GMT
Reply-To:     Nya Murray <nmurray@MARS.NETTREK.NET.AU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Nya Murray <nmurray@MARS.NETTREK.NET.AU>
Organization: PC Analysis Services
Subject:      Re: Re[2]: protocol for newsgroups (fwd)

John
 
My original posting was merely to sound out if anyone else thought
that SAS-L was too big and too general to cope with diverse special
interest topics, particularly a frontier topic which seems to me to
warrant a slightly different cultural approach to the dominant
paradigm of SAS-L. That is, an atmosphere which would encourage
speculative direction finding in a field which is new to all.
 
I am glad to see that I'm not the only one wading through an in tray,
if large still extremely merit worthy. I like the current form of
SAS-L. I would continue to subscribe to SAS-l if there were no AF
postings. I am fluent in base SAS and more or less statistically and
econometrically literate. I even do macros if I have to. I did not
post originally to start a breakaway group!!!! I still think that
SAS-L does not adequately serve the newer SAS technology because a
majority cultural position always predominates in any grouping, qed AF
OOPs is marginalised. It is still a problem for me that I don't have
the kind of communication I want with other AF developers,but I am not
inflexibly of the belief that a separate newsgroup would solve that
problem. I believe it is a sociological matter about group dynamics.
 
Regards
 
Nya