Future Translation relays, and new spin-off mailing list

On 23 Jun 99, at 19:26, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Joe Mondello wrote:
>
> > I think that the translation relay should be run regularly,
>
> Good idea.
>
> >  but not necessarily within the conlang list.
>
> I don't see why not (except perhaps to avoid flooding the listserv
> > with a webpage for each relay updating participants
> > on the status of the operation.  what do you think?
>
> The temptation to think that everyone has easy web access is great,
> but *this is not yet the case* and it may exclude some people who
True.

> It would perhaps be worth the trouble, if we don't want to do it on
> this list, to set up a onelist mailing list especially for this kind
> of thing. (And keep our normal discussion off that, of course).
I agree.  As we split off auxlang a few years ago and conculture
early this year we should split off translation relays, which generate
not only the lengthy (nice) texts, but lots of related admin chat.
Perhaps the same list would be open to any long interlinear text
postings, but not general conlang or linguistics chat.

Jim Henry III
Jim.Henry@pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~jim.henry/gzb/gzb.htm
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