Any specific things rustled your jimmies?
I'll answer that per PM later on if you don't mind, the information would be too clearly personally identifiable.
Wouldn't it be better to urge people to join it, and encourage saner practices?
It's a nearly dormant list, very little activity. There is a plethora of parenting related materials online, not every list should be saved, especially if it's not already in a good place to start with. As for encouraging saner practices, unfortunately it's an issue worse than politics, and I often lack the zen-state to be fighting windmills and coating "you are doing it wrong" in layers of niceties. Do you try and save every bad forum you come across, or just do your minimum duty and put up a "stay away" beacon at best?
Do you try and save every bad forum you come across, or just do your minimum duty and put up a "stay away" beacon at best?
Nope! But since I'm part of that list, I encourage people to improve it :)
I think there should be a place for LessWrongers interested in parenting to exchange ideas, and it's better if there's only one such place - that mailing lists seems like the obvious focal point, so I'd like to see anybody interested join it, and improve it's quality!
I've always been more of a theoretician, but it's important to try one's hand at practical problems from time to time. In that vein, I've decided to try three simultaneous experiments on major Less Wrong themes. I will aim to acquire something to protect, I will practice training a seed intelligence, and I will become more familiar with many consequences of evolutionary psychology.
In the spirit of efficiency I'll combine all these experiments into one:
She's never seen Star Wars or Doctor Who.
She's never seen David Attenborough or read J. L. Borges.
She's never had a philosophical debate.
She's never been skiing.
Never had sex, never been hugged or even been licked by a dog!
She has so much to look forwards to...
(Though she'll be very boring for several months yet!)