List subscription issues

[Mark Wicklund]

i'll confess that i, too, found the lack of on-line registration enough to 
induce slack. i second the "apologies, just a thought - "

mark wicklund



On Mar 26 2008, el don wrote:

>At 11:28 am -0700 26/3/08, Mary Bucholtz wrote:
>>
>>
>>Fourth, it's wonderful that we have so many subscribers to the list,
>>but a much smaller subset are members of the International Gender
>>and Language Assocation (IGALA), which is the organization that this
>>list was designed to serve. We're delighted to see so much interest
>>in language and gender and want to keep the list open to anyone who
>>would like to subscribe, but we also want to strongly encourage
>>subscribers to become members of the organization. Membership
>>includes a subscription to the journal Gender and Language, voting
>>rights, and other privileges. For more information, see:
>><http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/index.html>
>
>my good intentions to join, evidenced by having downloaded and
>printed out the subscription form, have been thwarted, not by the
>usual pecuniary disadvantage normally accruing to the part-time
>lecturer, but by the long arm of slack which prevents my using time
>for going to the post office....
>
>apologies, just a thought - but perhaps there are more people like me
>out there who would not take so long to send in their application to
>join IGALA if there were an online means of registering and payment.
>maybe i have been doing too much online shopping to have come to
>expect this facility everywhere?
>
>best,
>lexie
>(filling in the form right now)
>
>

-- 
mark wicklund
phd. program, linguistics
university of minnesota

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the infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. 
that is why they invented hell.

~bertrand russell