The linearity of the list could then be replaced or supplemented by the two-dimensionality of a bulletin board, divided into three main categories (each with possible sub-categories): (A) agents and places of indology; (B) the process of indology (projects, scholarships, positions); (C) the object of indology (questions ranging from: difficult passages, syntactic categories, to searches for scans of rare publications, etc etc.). 

Accepted members can choose to react to messages or post their message in one of the provided categories, and the message will remain available there. 

No need anymore for a message belonging to category (A) to receive a large number of comments by those more interested in category (B) or (C), on whether or not the message should have been posted or whether it or the thread to which it belongs is taking too much bandwidth etc. 

In a bulletin-board setting an interested reader can focus on the required category and need not be regretting to have started to read a message that does not provide the information seeked for, for instance on scholarships, job openings etc. 

As the present list is a private enterprise set up by a visionary colleague in the 1990s and administered by volunteering committee members (including the undersigned from ca. 2000 to ca. 2012), I have no objection to these committee members -- who represent nothing or no-one since they are co-opted but not voted for -- taking their own decisions in order to keep the list focused on what they perceive and have announced as the list's main domains of interest. 

Adding a "donation-button" to the Indology.info website for entirely anonymous donations without any obligation and without providing any privilege should in the meantime be considered.  

With best regards,

Jan  

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