Re: Long term archive of FAQs

Alan J Rosenthal (flaps@dgp.toronto.edu)
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:20:08 -0400

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>>You could probably find the volunteer by mailing to, say, three people who
>>seem to be active in the newsgroup and knowledgeable about the topic.
>
>If you looked at sci.lang, for example, you would find that two of the most
>frequent posters are near-lunatics with no understanding of historical
>(or even synchronic) linguistics, which does not stop them from posting.
>Would you expect the *.answers folks to be able to judge that?

Well, yes, in some cases you can tell who is and isn't a kook from the
nature of the postings. I didn't mean to imply that this method of finding
a volunteer was effortless. I guess it depends on what the alternatives are.

I think it's easier than posting an article and wading through the millions
of replies, which will have an equal if not greater proportion of kooks.
This is the previous suggestion regarding which mine was intended as a
possibly-superior alternative. It was just a suggestion...

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