Happy New Year to the SignWriting List!

[Terence Paget]

It wasn't hijacked - I sent it!

On 1 January 2011 19:44, Bill Reese <wreese01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

>  Terry,
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> You need to check your email to make sure it wasn't hijacked.  Someone just
> posted a flaming attack using your email address.
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> Bill
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> On 1/1/2011 1:51 PM, Terence Paget wrote:
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> I wonder how many on the SW list want out.
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> I have a definite interest in the concept of SW as a means of better
> annotating signs as I see them.  But far too much of what appears on this
> mailing list is self-congratulatory or of so little, if any, relevance to my
> level of interest that, and significantly, in the absence of an
> "unsubscribe" option, I am hovering my cursor over the "spam"/"notify spam"
> list.  That would be a shame for such a list as this.  But, in the absence
> (and repeating myself) of an "unsubscribe" link, I do not feel there is is
> much option.
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> I do know that, in response to others who have expressed a concern at being
> unable to know how to unsubscribe, they have posted and asked how.  But why
> should they, and I, have to?  Why can't the process be simplified and, so
> far as other respected and valued posting lists are concerned, why can't
> there be a simple "unsubscribe linl?
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> With total respect for others who do, I really have absolutely no interest
> in Spanish or French, or various other language formats for SW.  I certainly
> have no interest in the coding for any of them.  It's the New Year - time
> for a clean sweep.
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> Please do something about this.
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> Terry Paget
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> On 30 December 2010 23:14, SignWriting <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:
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>> SignWriting List
>> December 30, 2010
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>> Dear SW List members -
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>> For a holiday week, I sure have been working long hours, and so have
>> several of you as well - I know this because of the amazing email I am
>> receiving from all over the world -
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>> Steve has been burning the midnight oil, working long hours too, on the
>> editing of his remarkable document, Encoding the Graphemes of the SWScript,
>> which will be posted on Saturday, January 1st, 2011. The improvements Steve
>> has added, based on your feedback, my feedback and other items, have really
>> enhanced the document...thanks to everyone for your input.
>>
>> Nancy Romero completed the complete 21 Chapters of the Gospel According to
>> John in ASL in SignPuddle over a year ago, but it has taken a year to get
>> the full 21 chapters into a large PDF and printed book...the page layout and
>> book design was a huge job because of the size of the book - it is 480 pages
>> long. Finally we have the finished 480-page PDF document, and we are ready
>> to print the books. I printed five copies on my home printing machines this
>> week and the hardest part was the binding - I bound the five books myself
>> with coil bind, but the books are so thick it was hard for me to do the coil
>> bind myself, and so I am now going to invest in getting around 10 copies
>> printed elsewhere...in January I will show you photos of the thick books -
>> the thickest ever in SignWriting history that i know of, and it is all
>> SignWriting - no illustrations - just SignText...with an English translation
>> on the bottom of each page in tiny print...based on the New Living
>> Translation (NLT) Engl
>>  ish bible.
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>> New projects on SignWriting in Poland, Portugal, Germany, the United
>> States, the UK and well...the list is quite long actually...I am trying to
>> put the reports into one large "SignWriting Year End Report 2010"...so that
>> is coming in January...
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