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

En réponse à Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>:

>
> So you won't be making it available for download? That's, for example,
> what the Perl Review is doing: http://www.theperlreview.com/ . Making
> issues available in PDF (incidentally, also produced with (La?)TeX).
> And if you wanted to count the number of people who want to read it,
> you could analyse the web server log files ;)
>
> But if you want names behind your readers, then I suppose requesting
> it
> is the only way to go. Still seems a bit complicated; some people
> might
> be scared off by the requesting process while otherwise they might say
> "oh, why not, let's download this PDF and have a look at it, maybe
> this
> conlang thing is interesting".
>
Well, I don't see the problem in sending me an e-mail saying "Hi, can you send
me the journal?". After all, I receive e-mails from people reading my webpages
which say even less than that :)) .

And I don't like the idea of "giving away" things like that :)) . But I'm ready
to make a compromise: the current issue of the journal will be available on
request, while the former ones will be freely available. By making former
issues available, I may make people interested enough to request the current
one :)) . I have my reasons to want to make the journal available first only on
request, one of them being that people are often curious about things that are
not readily available, while things that they can get without doing anything
make them lose their interest quite fast.

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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