Hearing little resistance, I'm going to go ahead with this. To those of you who expressed a preference for email, it will certainly be possible to subscribe to threads. That said, the point of a forum would in large part be to transfer discussion of WUDC in the USA into a format more conducive to organized discussion. As a regular user of both the APDA forum and of this list, I promise it's a model you all will quickly grow to prefer. Best, Sam On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:29 PM, John Adams <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Fine with me. > > > On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, Samuel Ward-Packard wrote: > >> Dear WUDC debaters and coaches, >> >> It seems to me, and I know a lot of others on the circuit agree, that the >> American BP community has outgrown this listserv. There are a number of >> controversial issues that follow on the growth of American BP debating, and >> discussion of them is not facilitated by long email chains. Moreover, as we >> host more and bigger tournaments things like invitations and reg questions >> clutter our inboxes more and more. As such, I propose the creation of a web >> forum for the American WUDC community modeled after the thriving APDA >> forum. <http://apdaweb.org/forum/index.php> I'd be happy to host the >> site on the Yale team's spare server space, and could have it up and >> running by April 1st at the very latest. Is this a resource people would >> make use of? >> >> I would just add that I don't in any way intend this as a slight to Tuna. >> His maintenance of this listserv has been a great service to WUDC debating >> in the US. >> >> Best, >> >> Sam >> Yale Debate Association >> >> >> -- >> Samuel Ward-Packard >> Yale 2014 - Humanities >> [log in to unmask] >> >> > > -- > John C. Adams, PhD > Colgate Speaking Union > Colgate University > Hamilton, NY 13346 > Office: 315-228-6870 > Mobile: 315-395-9430 > www.colgate.edu/csu > > *"Truth does not speak for itself."* > > -- Samuel Ward-Packard Yale 2014 - Humanities [log in to unmask]