Mister Scratch wrote:I'm sure that FARMS . . . with its well-compensated Board members, is the envy of all the lesser apologetic organizations.
FARMS, or, more properly, the Maxwell Institute, has no board, and hasn't had one in several years. (As I've pointed out more than once.) And well-compensated? Not really. For most of its existence, the board received nothing at all. For its last few years, board members received $3000 per annum, which compensated them for attendance at monthly business meetings, hours of writing reports and studying reports, hours of evaluating research publication proposals, service on subcommittees (e.g. to award scholarships, plan conferences, and the like), public speaking engagements, and etc. The board fee was hardly lavish.
Mister Scratch wrote:Iin fact, I bet they have modeled their listserves after l-skinny.
Skinny-L is a small private list to which (have I mentioned this before?) you have no real access and of which (perhaps I've neglected to tell you?) you know essentially nothing. It's only partially concerned with apologetic matters -- mostly
not, I should think -- and is certainly not the dramatic and sinister e-cabal that it clearly excites you to fantasize about. So there's no reason at all why anybody would model any other private list on it.