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Re: st: RE: Au revoir Statalist. Hello Statalist.


From   Alfonso Sánchez-Peñalver <[email protected]>
To   Stata List <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: RE: Au revoir Statalist. Hello Statalist.
Date   Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:26:58 -0400

Hi all,

first, thank you for maintaining the list for such a long time. I haven’t been part of it long but I have benefited immensely and learned a lot from the comments here. I’ve just registered on the forum and participated in a post. The process is simple and I like the new forum. Unlike Joe I will miss the email notification of every new topic because I would just open my email client and have the topics there. Now I will have to visit the forum often. I will not miss, however, having to remember to make the format of the emails plain text, lol, since my email client has them as html by default.

In any case, thanks for providing a new way to exchange questions and answers, so that Statalist can survive many new years, and thanks again for all the effort you guys put into this.

Best,

Alfonso Sánchez-Peñalver, PhD


On Mar 31, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Marcelo et al.,
> 
> Thanks for all your hard work on this transition.  I just registered and everything looks great so far.  I am looking forward to being able to pick and choose the topics I am interested in, rather than having to wade through piles of e-mails.  This, of course, will also make it more important for users to provide meaningful descriptions of their queries.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Joe Canner
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcello Pagano
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 12:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Au revoir Statalist. Hello Statalist.
> 
> Dear Listers,
> 
> I could start this message by saying, all good things must end, but that 
> would be misleading. What is coming to an end is the present incarnation 
> of Statalist. That is, just in its present form. It is being replaced by 
> something even better. It is surprising in retrospect that in this area 
> something can last twenty years in a constant form, but Statalist has. 
> Now we are going to have available a form driven system to replace the 
> old text driven one. One thing I will not miss is the response I sent 
> out a zillion times, "Use Plain Text", to the query about why a message 
> was not being posted! If only I had a dime for every time..... Now that 
> will no longer be necessary!
> 
> Details:
> [email protected]
> will be shut down at the end of May and its replacement,
> http://statalist.org
> is now up and running. I will remain the moderator. The only thing you 
> have to do is resubscribe at the new locale.
> 
> Some may question the new address and think this implies some sort of 
> content-control and possible censoring by Stata. Rest assured, the good 
> cop (me) and the bad cop (Nick) will retain all the control about the 
> content of the list. So in that respect, nothing will change. It has 
> just grown too much to keep here. I know it is very important to a lot 
> of you, so we wanted to maintain the high quality you have become 
> accustomed to. This is a way to do it. An optimal way in my opinion.
> 
> Apart from it being a way to improve presentation the reason for the 
> move is that hsphsun2.harvard.edu (an old Sun workstation) is now 20 
> years old and the only reason it is still alive is the nurturing of my 
> colleague, Bill Mahoney, who is retiring in the next few months. Bill 
> has been in the background keeping Statalist functioning all the while, 
> since its inception. We owe Bill a great thank you vote.
> 
> The replacement home for Statalist is up and running. Visit it and set 
> up an account (still for free, of course) and learn to use it:
> 
> http://www.statalist.org
> 
> When I told Bill Gould about the the retirement of Bill Mahoney, he and 
> I put together a committee to find an alternative. That committee was
> Bill Gould
> Kit Baum
> Maarten Buis
> Nick Cox
> Phil Schumm
> and me.
> 
> Only Bill Gould and I were the slightest bit queasy about the change to 
> a forum, and none of us were against it, but in retrospect the worry was 
> silly of us especially since Alan Riley and his team, Kevin Crow, Pete 
> Huckelba, and Annette Fett, were in charge of setting things up--they 
> created a beaut.
> 
> In general, forums do have advantages over mailing lists. For one, you 
> can include Stata graphs and ado-files and datasets in your postings, 
> and you can use LaTeX math.
> 
> Statalist has been run out of my office at Harvard and StataCorp has 
> always been very supportive. Indeed, there have been a couple of 
> instances where they have helped with software issues. The new Statalist 
> server is being run by StataCorp directly, which will reduce the amount 
> of work I have to do. Policy and decisions concerning what's appropriate 
> and what's inappropriate are still set by me--StataCorp has never 
> interfered--but I too shall retire soon, so put your volunteering caps on.
> 
> I hope all of you will try the Statalist Forum. I'm going to run both 
> the old and new Statalists in parallel for a while. Discussion here at 
> hsph will shutdown at the end of May. I expect most discussion will have 
> moved to the new forum long before that. (I have a suspicion that when 
> Nick moves over....)
> 
> I expect that for the first couple of weeks there will be lots of test 
> postings on the new forum as we get used to the new software. The forum 
> has a Sandbox for just that purpose. The sandbox is called a subforum. 
> There are three other subforums. The one entitled Using the Forum is for 
> questions on how to use the forum itself. The two substantive subforums 
> are entitled General and Mata. Mata is for questions and discussion on 
> Mata and General is for all the rest of Stata.
> 
> So go try it out and learn to love it. Statalist has a long history of 
> helpful, constructive, and polite discussion. I expect to see that 
> continue in the Statalist family in its new habitat.
> 
> m.p.
> 
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