a small plea

[Peter A. McGraw]

Odd, indeed.  And yet my point is that that is the current de facto
situation with this list.

Peter

--On Friday, October 31, 2003 6:37 PM -0500 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> wrote:

>> Odd that the American Dialact Society should sponsor both of these
>> lists, and odd that linguists/dialectologists should be construed
>> somehow as "half" of what the ADS is about.
>
> dInIs
>
>> I wasn't going to get involved in this discussion, but here's an
>> observation FWIW.
>>
>> It looks as if there are basically two lists here under one "roof"--one
>> the lexicographers and the other the linguists/dialectologists.  The two
>> groups seem to have fundamentally different interests, and
>> cross-pollination seems rare, with each group mainly ignoring or
>> deleting the other group's messages and sometimes getting grumbly about
>> having to use the "delete" key so often.  It feels somewhat heretical to
>> say this, but what if the ADS had two separate lists?  Anybody
>> interested in both areas could subscribe to both, but nobody would have
>> to.
>>
>> If this is a really dumb idea, please use the "delete" key.
>>
>> Peter Mc.
>>
>> --On Friday, October 31, 2003 2:53 PM -0500 Scott Sadowsky
>> <lists at SPANISHTRANSLATOR.ORG> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/31/2003 11:34 AM, George Thompson wrote the following:
>>>
>>>> In as much as there is no filter now in place...
>>>
>>> Why not ask people to put some sort of flag --such as "ANTE:"-- in the
>>> subject line of posts with antedatings?  That way they could be easily
>>> filtered, either to the trash or to a special antedating mail box, by
>>> all and sundry.  This is standard practice on many lists.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> illumination, we're designed to kind of go back to the happiness set
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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