Mark,
Re your comment below:
"I'm not disputing the success or value of the group
-- clearly not, or why would I bother making an
intended-to-be-productive suggestion? It wasn't intended to
provoke the defensiveness that it seems to have."
I'm sorry if anything I said sounded defensive. If the format
changes, I'll go along with it. And, whether most members
agreed with you or not, I'm sure they appreciated that your
suggestions were meant, not as a criticism of the group, but
as a way of improving the group.
That said, the reason I don't get a sense that people are
dissatisfied with keeping the status more or less quo is
because all the responses your suggestion generated were
unenthusiastic, and it's reasonable to presume that anyone
who failed to offer an opinion either generally likes the
current system, or at least doesn't dislike it enough to
regard a major change as being warranted.
JIM DOHERTY
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