Colleagues,

I am a doctoral student at Duquesne University SON studying
Therapeutic Touch® which utilizes Rogers as one pinion of its
theoretical framework. Perhaps I look at the listserv from a
different perspective. I am 55, disabled, and volunteer for myriad
organizations--professional, social, and community based. More posts
does not equate with quality of information provided. I always
find the posted information interesting and often applicable to my
current endeavors.

I have not engaged in the converstation thread before, as my
particular button was not pushed.Please do not discontinue the
listserv. It has helped me both personally and professionally. It may
not be the one originally envisioned and may even need tweaked on
occasion, but one purpose it serves is by being a wonderful access
point for expertise on Rogerian Nursing
Science.

If you need help, contact me and I will be happy to lend a hand.

Tamara

Tamara Lynn Wardell, RN, MSN
Ph.D. Student (51/57 credits completed)
Duquesne University SON
Therapeutic Touch®, Administration, Critical Care, Oncology
Pittsburgh
tamwardell@...


> So, the question: Is it worthwhile to maintain the listserver when
> there is so little use being made of it? Most of my work on the
> listserver at this point is dedicated to identifying and deleting
> spammers - which is not quite the way I want to spend my time and
very
> little time is spent reading interesting posts from colleagues.
>
> So, I suggest that we engage in a dialogue about the utility of
> maintaining the listserver and if that dialogue fails to generate
> appropriate interest and responses, we agree to let the listserver
go
> on in a relatively unmoderated manner - unfortunately that would
> likely eventually result in a lot of spam. The upside would be that
> the older messages would remain intact - as opposed to formally
> shutting down the listserver which would mean that the 1200 messages
> would be lost.
>
> Another option would be that someone else step up to be moderator.
>
> bear