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Re: CCHAT: History of the conlang list

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 8, 2000, 21:37
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Well, the conclusion of it is that like many things, the list has no exact > date of birth, since it's first state was more a bunch of addresses than > anything else, but it was already there (even if not an official list).
I'd go with it's establishment as an actual listserv - March 24, 1993 according to John Cowan. So, still a few years to go. Either that or July 18, 1991, since that was when the alias was set up. (Question: What precisely is an alias in this context, and how does it differ from a proper listserv?) -- "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C. S. Lewis