riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (12/16/83)
Well, Chuqui (cae780!chuqui) is right: it's been about two weeks since
my original posting, and my proposal for new ethnic/linguistic subgroups
of net.nlang "looks like it will fail for lack of long term interest". I
got some enthusiastic replies from a handful of people in favor of some
particular subgroups, but not enough support to justify the creation of any.
Here is a summary of what was voted for. I am posting this list so that
even if no new newsgroups are created, other interested people can contact
the nominators for private discussions by mail (or for discussion in plain-
old-vanilla net.nlang). Many thanks to the following people:
net.nlang.chinese houxz!llf
net.nlang.esperanto Andy Behrens
decvax!dartvax!andyb
net.nlang.french John C.
decvax!dartvax!johnc
net.nlang.yiddish Alan Driscoll
ihnp4!allegra!alan
general "yes" votes Andy Kegel (particularly interested in a
ihnp4!ihuxq!agk comparative "net.nlang.ethnic")
houxk!jmg
Bill Ramey
rayssd!wjr
Steve Aldrich (particularly interested in Asia)
ihnp4!ihuxj!amra
I was interested myself in net.nlang.spanish, net.nlang.german and
net.nlang.india.
Oh, well. I still don't think it was a bad idea. Maybe there'll be more
interest a year from now. In the meantime, general linguistic/ethnic/cultural
discussions are always welcome in net.nlang.
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Prentiss Riddle
{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle