[Corpora-List] corpus linguistics

[Bob Parks]

Dear Christian and Antoinette,
Please - I'd like to ask as graciously as I can - 
PLEASE do not restrict discussion on this list. 
With modems, much time was spent downloading 
email.  But now with web mail and broadband time 
isn't an issue. Further, when we are so very 
lucky to have such wonderfully knowledgeable and 
brilliant thinkers as Sowa, Wilkes, Freeman, 
etc., how could anyone ask them to restrict 
themselves to one or a few people's conception of 
what is on topic?  I would rather say that 
whatever they believe is worth expounding on, is 
worth my time to pay attention to.  But I 
certainly respect the right of others not to read 
their postings. Please let this be an educational 
forum with high purpose and broad scope, and not 
a message exchange among a few who want to 
announce conferences and tend to the details of a 
field whose boundaries they assume have been set 
once and for all.  So little time is used in 
ignoring what you don't want to read. So much 
insight is gained by reading what others have to 
say.  Let each make their own choices about what 
to read and what to write. I will be very 
grateful for the opportunity to listen to 
brilliant minds, and will be very sad if anyone 
fails to educate us with their perspective 
because of some list ownership policy.
Thank you.
Bob Parks


At 4:14 PM +0100 9/14/07, Christian Pietsch wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>please refrain from entering into meta-discussions, and do consider
>respecting the wishes of the list owner, represented by Antoinette.
>
>Even the most excellent linguists can benefit from the collected wisdom
>of mailing list and Usenet users which is distilled in the netiquette.
>There are numerous versions but they all tend to express the same basic
>guidelines. See e.g. <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt>.
>
>I'm sorry for not introducing myself earlier. I've been a member of this
>list for about 2 years, and I did find the Chomsky discussion mostly
>interesting. As an administrator of various mailing lists I have learnt
>to bear in mind that there are always list members who are unable to
>cope with a high volume of list traffic. Long discussions with only a
>few active participants should indeed be taken off-line, especially if
>they drift away from the list topic.
>
>Have a good day!
>Christian
>
>--
>   Christian Pietsch, Natural Language Generation group,
>   Centre for Research in Computing & Computing Department
>   The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
>   http://purl.org/NET/pietsch · http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg
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>
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