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Re: Don't mean to offend, but...

From:João Ricardo Oliveira <hokstein@...>
Date:Monday, March 31, 2003, 3:16
Jan van Steenbergen:
> No, you don't. Please go to http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html, > and choose option 3 (Join or leave the list, or change setting). Here you have > the possibility to disable the delivery of messages with tags like CHAT and OT. > Of course, not all off-topic threads are marked as such, but it might help at > little, at least.
I wasn't aware of that option. Thanks for the tip, Jan! Sally Cave:
> To ask us to forgo the delight of talking about the > people who speak our invented languages, or the > literature that pertains to them and their world, is > a little much.
I didn't ask anything. I just pointed it out that I was having a hard time trying to follow the group.
> That kind of rigid pigeon-holing just > doesn't work with an imaginative, talkative, and > synaesthetic bunch of people.
Now even I am afraid of myself. What an arrogant dictator-wannabe I must be, trying to force imaginative, talkative, synaesthetic bunches of people to cope with my personal wishes. Someone please kill me. Barry Garcia:
> I hope you don't get offended by what I have to say.
I don't.
> The OT threads are insightful to the people on the list. > SNIP
I'm affraid I don't agree with you. But obviously everybody else does, so I'll just stick to the available options. Thanks for the suggestions. João Ricardo Oliveira

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