Re: Language Creation: The International Language Construction Bulletin (working title)

En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

>
> I fully agree.
> On the other hand, I would be a pity if the Journal were read only by
> the
> 5-15 people who actually care to ask for it explicitly.
Of course. But electronic journals can hardly have a little boy shouting on the
street at the entry of the metro asking if anyone wants the journal :)) .

> Would it be an idea to subscribe all List members automatically?
> Perhaps
> the List Owner could help here...
> Besides, I don't think there would be anything against it if we
> subscribe
> some people who are not on the list. People have to get acquainted with
> it
> somehow, if not through the list then through other ways. BTW wouldn't
> that
> be a nice promotion of the list?
>
Just a problem: I hate, being subscribed to something I didn't ask for,
whatever that is (the only exception until now is when I was invited to the
Ouglopo group, the French-speaking conlang mailing list, only because the idea
is nice and the traffic so low that it doesn't bother me :)) ), and I'm quite
sure that I'm not alone like that. I think I advertise enough on the list
already, that all the people who are interested will react, even the lurkers
(if they are readers :)) ). As for people who are not on the list, well
everyone is free to distribute the Journal to anyone s/he wants, as long as
s/he doesn't make profit out of it :)) . Maybe an invitation to say if they are
interested in it, but I won't send the journal to someone who didn't ask for it
like that. It's purely rude (or at least I find it rude).

Christophe.

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