[ALST-L] Balkans Academic list

[AHetzer]

> Thanks for you comments. I just found out about this list so I don't really
> have an oppinion. To me it sounded interesting thus I passed the message to
> you.
> But what I did do afterwards is read the old messages on their bulletin.

The archive of that list is freely accessable at

http://www.egroups.com/group/balkans

Perhaps, one has to subscribe before, but this is no problem, and if you
click the option "read on the web only", you will avoid overflow in your
mail box. 

I monitored several discussion groups/mailing lists during this spring,
therafter I have written a paper on the topic "Albanian in Internet"
which will be read at a conference next weekend. Balkan Academic list is
not mentioned there, because English is the only language on that board,
and Albania proper is no topic of any importance. As far as Yugoslavia
(SRYu) is concerned, all opinions expressed on Balkans Academic are
extremely moderate. People who want to get familiar with the alternative
thinking of Serbian intellectuals can use that list as a starting point.
However, I did not realize that it differs from the "mainstream", as far
as Kosova is concerned. The only Serbian list where Kosova is treated in
a more realistic way is "Mostovi"
(http://www.borut.com/mostovi/rules_ac.htm). 
It is moderated too, and if people use the word Shiptari instead of
Albanci, they will get a Notice (maybe they will be excluded, if such
sins occur too often). 

On the whole, one can say, that Balkans academic list is the only one
that after July 1999 did not "dry out" as a consequence of lack of hot
news. Others, like Decani list, keep sending press releases. On eGroups
one can see the statistics without difficulty, whereas in other cases
the archives and/or statistics are less easily accessable. Generally
speaking one can say that during this year, due to the current events,
there was much change in behavior. It would be worthwhile to analyze a
couple of mailing lists from a scholarly point of views (number of
participants/postings, topics, standpoint etc.). 

Kind regards
AHetzer

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