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

En réponse à "Davis, Iain E." <feaelin@...>:

>
> In my case, the reverse is true.  I'm more likely to read something if
> it's readily available.  If it's directly browsable, I'd be most
> likely
> to read it.  Thereafter, my interest has to exceed the effort
> threshold
> or I won't read it.  PDF files are an example of something that may
> cause me to not to read something (all the tedious mucking about with
> reader annoys me), and if I have to go to the trouble of sending an
> e-mail some place, that's likely to kill my interest entirely.
>
Well, if your interest vanishes as soon as you have to make a minimal effort to
get something, it's your problem, not mine :)) . I don't know why I should
bother for people who are so weak that the simple fact of having to send a one-
line e-mail (not even, you can put: "I want the Journal" in the title and leave
the mail blank!) is too much for them already.

Note that it's not an attack against you personally, but against this seemingly
current opinion that everything *has to* come to you without you having to move
a single finger to get it. I completely resent this attitude (which in my
opinion is the main reason why the level of education gets lower every year - I
didn't want to believe it was true, until I realised that the education my
sister, 5 years younger than me, received was constantly a year or sometimes
two behind the one I had received (and I've checked that by comparing our
notes :)) ) - ) and I will not do anything to condone it. I already made enough
compromise by stating that the previous issues will be available without
request. And since I'm the one who is in charge of the Conlang Journal (since
nobody else wanted it :)) ), the publication will be done in my way, that's to
say by request only. Of course, what can be done, and it's absolutely no
problem for me, is that someone requests the journal and asks to receive every
issue of it (like a subscription but for free :)) ). I have no problem with
that, and it will even make it easier, and people will have to request only
once for a lifetime (unless I lose the e-mail list ;)) ). And I promise I won't
send the e-mail addresses to spam companies (I find them awful enough
already :)) ).

As for the format itself, it has been made clear enough that PDF is the only
possible format, given the contents, the frequent use of strange fonts and the
importance of the layout.

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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