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

En réponse à Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...>:

>
> I missed part fo the discussion, but do we get the journal by
> automatic
> response, or do we have to wait for your to be behind your PC and send
> it to
> us? In the latter case, that would really be a treshold. I don;t have
> much
> time to read Conlang stuff lately, so when I have time, I would like
> the
> journal to be readily available. If I have to send an e-mail, and then
> get
> the journal maybe a few hours later, it would probably come when I
> don't
> have the time to read it right away, and it would get lost in the stack
> of
> 50+ serious e-mails I receive daily.
>
Well, as I said, if you say you want the journal, and say that you also want
the following issues, then there's no problem because you'll be sent it on the
very day it's released.

>
> And about you wanting to keep track of how many people "read" the
> journal,
> you will be incorrect. You will only know how many people will "receive"
> the
> journal first hand.
Of course, but I don't care what people do with it afterwards. It's just a
matter of me being able to contact people who are interested in the Journal.
They may not be all on the Conlang list, or have gone to nomail for a while
(like Irina just did) and still want to know when the next issue is coming, or
even want to write an article and need to know about the deadline. If I have to
count on them going to a website for getting the information, I'll probably
lose half the input I could have got simply because people just "forgot" about
it. And I'm not fooling myself: the amount of articles I'm gonna receive is not
gonna be very big. This may be a way to enlarge it later. It may not work, but
it cannot be worse then doing nothing. And there is also the fact that I find
PDF used for Internet browsing extremely annoying, and I'll do nothing to
condone this practice. I already compromised it enough by allowing the former
issues to be available this way. I'm not gonna compromise more. It's a matter
of principle. People may not agree on it and that's fine by me, but I'm in
charge with the journal so it will be done according to my principles :)) .

>
> But since you do put the old journals on a web page, I could just
> satisfy
> myself with reading the old issue whenever it becomes available online.
> I
> don't think a journal like this will become outdated so quickly anyway
> ;-)
>
True :) . This is also to attract new readers that I made this compromise. But
for the rest you know my position and I'm not going to change it, however
misguided other people may find it to be.

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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