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Re: [engelang] Engelang or Jboske?

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:40 AM, John Cowan <cowan@hidden.email> wrote:
 

And Rosta scripsit:



> Can I propose Engelang, then, as the locus of discussion? That is, I hereby
> propose Engelang as the locus of discussion.

By all means. But I understood the proposal to be to consolidate Engelang
and Jboske into a single mailing list, since both are extremely low
traffic (54 Engelang and 70 Jboske messages since the beginning of 2011).

Jboske is at the moment the larger group (60 members vs. 35), but Engelang
has the wider scope (engineered languages, explicitly including Loglan
and Lojban), so I think transferring the members of Jboske to Engelang
would be the best course of action, and then blocking further posts and
members of Jboske, while of course leaving the public archives intact. 

Since the Lojban list has already come to conduct all of its own non-reformist Lojbanic metadiscussion, that only makes sense.  There is also an inactive group called Loccan3 run by John Clifford that could also be purged and merged if he would agree to do so.  Loccan3 is currently unmaintained and overrun by spammers, but as often happens on Yahoo Groups, I am reluctant to leave because of the outside chance that something constructive will happen there.

If no one raises any objection, I would like to see all of these and any others I don't know about merged or invited to merge into Engelang, thus getting everyone in one place and blocking spam mailers.  If the engelang crowd ever develops the need, it can always set up new lists as required later.