Truespel Spam?

[LanDi Liu]

I don't think that's what Ron Butters meant, and I hope you continue to
mention your LL posts.  I think you're right in seeing it as a courtesy.
Even for people who read both, it's nice to have a link there.

Pointing someone to something you wrote has nothing to do with selling
anything.

Randy

On Feb 6, 2008 2:19 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:

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> Poster:       "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Truespel Spam?
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> On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:26 AM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
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> > However, if Mr. Truespel is a spammer, so are most of us to one
> > degree or
> > another.
>
> > ... Several others continue to direct us to their blogs and
> > LanguageLog
> > postings.
>
> i can't see how such postings constitute spam, or self-promotion.  in
> any case, i post links to Language Log in two situations:
>
>   (1) when a LLog posting of mine cites discussion that was
> originally on ADS-L;
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>   (2) when someone's LLog posting covers material currently under
> discussion in ADS-L.
>
> (1) i have always viewed as simple courtesy.  but i'm happy not to
> bother with these announcements to ADS-L any more; people who care
> about how ADS-L is represented outside this mailing list can just read
> Language Log (and various blogs that mention ADS-L on occasion)
> regularly.
>
> (2) i view as an attempt to get the scholarship straight and to avoid
> repeating or rehashing earlier discussions.  the only alternative i
> can see to a link would be to reproduce the material from LLog (either
> by typing in a new version or by cutting and pasting the original).
> well, there's the alternative of just letting ADS-L go on in apparent
> ignorance of this other material.
>
> in both cases, the easier course for me is not to bother posting to
> ADS-L, and that's the course i will now adopt.
>
> arnold
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