Re: New record! More than 1500 postings!

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 31/05/99 17:17:32  , christophe a =E9crit :

> Finally, I've got problems on those computers of the school to
>  configurate the news server, so I thin I would lose contact with this lis=
t
>  if it became a newsgroup.
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>          Definitely it must remain a mailing list.
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>                                                          Christophe=20
Grandsire
>                                                  |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G=
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so do i. i don't want to offend anybody here, but i think we're a bunch of=20
strange people (i'm quoting a recent post). we need to keep the list as it i=
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now. christophe and didier and i met another french conlanger a week ago. he=20
was 17 and i think he needed our close, friendly presence to show him he was=20
ok although he was a conlanger. the close, human dimension of this list is=20
vital for some of us. we talk a lot on it because we are conlangers. we just=20
are not so many listers who post a lot. i don't think we would gain more=20
audience by gearing up into a newsgroup. let's keep the list as we are.=20
except if 10s of lurkers wished otherwise. but this is doubtful.

mathias