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Re: New file uploaded to romanceconlang



 --- John Cowan skrzypszy:

> Fortunately, there is a nice utility called yahoo2mbox, written in Perl,
> that does the trick.  I've just grabbed the whole archive (messages 1
> through 1301).  Mbox format is standard in Unix systems, and is also used
> by Mozilla Mail and Eudora: many other packages can import it using
> their facilities for importing Eudora.  The zipped archive is only 732K.

Wonderful! Well, in that case I support the idea of moving.

> Any volunteers for hosting it?

Yes, I have plenty of space at http://steen.free.fr/... I can place it there.
Although I agree with Padraic's suggestion to upload it into the files section
of the new group.

> We could now move to another mailing list that doesn't begin with
> "romance" and that has a real owner.  

And I am prepared to serve as its moderator. If nobody objects, I will create
the new group tomorrow or the day after tomorrow (today I can't do it, because
my connection is terribly slow right now).

As for the name, I will create a small poll (no more than one or two days) in
order to give the members who follow this discussion the occasion to vote for a
name.
Personally, I am inclined towards either "italicconlang" (with 2 c's to avoid
confusion), "romconlang" or "romanceconlang2".

With your permission, I will automatically add all current members of this
group to the new group (excluding spammers like Mr. B. Zhang).

Unless, of course, someone else wants to do the job. Anyway, a co-owner would
be desirable, I believe.

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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