Re: CHAT: India-Pakistan Nuclear War?
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 3, 2002, 7:17 |
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--- Irina wrote:
> [...] Please keep politics off the list, however worthy the cause.
Aren't you overreacting a bit?
Sure, the main objective of the Conlang List is to exchange ideas about
conlanging and conlangs. But since it is an open forum, I believe people should
feel free to sometimes post about something completely different. I remember
instances when someone posted a joke, or a poem, or a thought, there have been
threads about music and literature... Nothing wrong with going off-topic from
time to time, as long as it doesn't end up in endless chitchat that might
obscure the serious conlang part.
Besides, the numerous threads about natlangs (mostly English and Dutch, I'm
afraid) play a worse part in this respect. They have as little to do with
conlanging as politics. It seems that they already caused some excellent
conlangers to leave the list or to go off-mail for an undetermined period of
time.
Off-topic stuff does not disturb me. In the worst case I would delete it
unread. But if there really would be a need for splitting of some items from
the Conlang List, it would definitely be the "natlanging" part of it.
Jan
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