Proposal: An separate antedatings list

[Scot LaFaive]

>I like the idea of voluntary tags or subject line formats. These would help>people tell at a glance if it is something they might be interested in.>Antedatings might have a subject of "Antedate: [word], [date]"; eggcorns>could be "Eggcorn: [word]"; etc.
 
I think this would solve a lot of issues...except the format of my emails. I need to switch from Hotmail to Gmail.
 
Scot
 
> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:57:40 -0700> From: dave at WILTON.NET> Subject: Re: Proposal: An separate antedatings list> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>> Poster: Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET>> Subject: Re: Proposal: An separate antedatings list> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > >And I can't speak for the antedaters specifically, but I'm> >sure that many people who post do so partly because they know> >a lot of other people will see it. If not for this, we don't> >need to create an antedatings list, because we already have> >one--it's called Jesse Sheidlower's e-mail address.> > The chief advantage that I see in posting antedatings to this (or another> archived list) is in the archives. They're available and searchable by> anyone. Sending them to a dictionary or personal email address means that> they are effectively lost to everyone else.> > I rarely read the antedatings when they arrive in my mailbox, but I use the> search function to find the antedatings in the archives all the time.> > I like the idea of voluntary tags or subject line formats. These would help> people tell at a glance if it is something they might be interested in.> Antedatings might have a subject of "Antedate: [word], [date]"; eggcorns> could be "Eggcorn: [word]"; etc.> > And I also would not like to see ADS-L splinter into different> subject-oriented lists. One of the great values of the list is the variety> of subjects and the exposure to various subfields in the discipline.> > The question I would have to people who complain about too many posts is: do> you sort your email into folders? I've set my mail reader to file all the> postings from ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU into an ADS-L folder. Other lists I> subscribe to go into their own folders. 30 messages a day sorted into a> folder isn't a lot. 30 messages mixed up with mail from other lists,> colleagues, friends and family, spam, etc. would be a mess.> > ------------------------------------------------------------> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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