Re: New to the list

Jim Henry wrote:

> but the survey showing an actual prevalence of
> gays, left-handed persons, and guys with beards
> was apparently earlier than the brown.edu
> listserv archives.  Mia Soderquist alludes to it
> in this 2001 message:
>
> http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9907B&L=CONLANG&P=R1584&D=0&I=-3
I know this goes way back, but I don't have my old email archives from
then. A quick google on +conlang +goatee reveals a few relevant links
including

http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/conlang/con9701

from 1997. From the looks of it, this could be where the whole
"left-handed gay conlanger with goatee" thing started. The thread spun
off into a discussion of hair-related words in conlangs, among other
things. Was it really that long ago?