15.1121, All: All About: What do LL Editors do, Really?

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Subject: 15.1121, All: All About: What do LL Editors do, Really?

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1)
Date:  6 Apr 2004 05:13:02 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  All About: What do LINGUIST List Student Editors do, really?

2)
Date:  16 Mar 2004 08:56:08 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  How to Donate...

3)
Date:  16 Mar 2004 08:56:08 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Contributors So Far....

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  6 Apr 2004 05:13:02 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  All About: What do LINGUIST List Student Editors do, really?

Hello everyone!

Since we are in the middle of our fund drive, we thought it would be a
good idea to let all you readers know what it is we LINGUIST List
editors do. Since we are asking for your help in funding us, you
should see what goes on 'behind the scenes' here.

Most of you already know about our convenient web forms for submitting
your calls for papers, job announcements, queries, and the like. What
a lot of you may not know, however, is that LINGUIST List issues are
not completely automated, and we need to add a 'human touch' to
provide you with the beautifully edited issues you are used to seeing.

First, all the submissions we receive need to be sorted. We receive
nearly 200 emails each day, and one of us needs to go through the list
and sort calls for papers from job announcements, queries from
journals, and so on.

Next, the editors need to go through each submission convert any
strange characters into readable type. For example, an email that
looks like this...

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LS0tLS0tLS0tLQo=

...could actually be a submission lurking underneath some incompatible
characters! We fix these problems by hand, and end up with readable
text.

Another task we have to do here is sort out submissions for content.
For example, we have to be sure that each and every request makes it
to the appropriate section of our database. We ensure that conference
announcements don't accidentally get lost in, say, journal
announcements.

In other words, it takes actual human editors to keep our site so well
organized, which ensures that you can find any information you are
looking for with just a few clicks.

And just like you, our email inbox is not immune to the dreaded SPAM!
Out of the 200 emails we get every day, some 70% of that is spam, and
we have to delete it. If our issues were "automatically generated,"
you might see a LINGUIST issue like this one:

...in wonderful spirit=2EI am making this contact with you based on
trust and confidence irrespective of the fact that we have not met
before and because of the nature of the business I am about to
introduce=2C I want to remain positive having the faith and the will
and convincing myself that you will be capable to help me for the
sucessful completion of this pressing transaction that will be
beneficial to both of us=2E....

(I'm sure messages like this are already all too familiar to you!).

And finally, submissions have to be formatted so they look neat and
clean. Otherwise, LINGUIST issues might look something like this:

Binding Theory, which is concerned with sentence-internal constraints
on
anaphora, was originally conceived in syntactic terms as a set of
conditions
on the distribution of indices (Chomsky 1983). Thus Condition A stated that
anaphors are locally bound (*John/i thinks that himself/i is clever); Condition
 B stated that Pronominals are
locally free (*He/i likes him/i), and Condition C required that
R-expressions
 be free (*He/i thinks that John/i is clever). But other

As you can see, these inconsistent line breaks need to be cleaned up
before they can be sent to you.

I hope that you all now have a better idea of why the linguistic
community needs to help fund the graduate student editors at LINGUIST.
It takes a lot of 'personpower' to bring you the quality you expect
from our list and website. If you have ever found LINGUIST List to be
a reliable source of information about the world of linguistics,
please take a moment to make a donation.

With much thanks,
Andrea Berez,
LINGUIST List Editor,
Calls for Papers/ Conferences

-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  16 Mar 2004 08:56:08 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  How to Donate...

This Year the LINGUIST List hope to raise $60,000. This money will go
to help keep the List running, by supporting all of our Student
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-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  16 Mar 2004 08:56:08 -0000
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject:  Contributors So Far....

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