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From: alderson@netcom18.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Indoeuropean-L@Cornell.Edu
In-Reply-To: dfokeefe@aol.com's message of 25 Feb 1997 16:31:32 GMT
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In article <19970225163101.LAA05078@ladder02.news.aol.com> dfokeefe@aol.com
(DFOKeefe) writes:

>Does anyone know what happened to Indoeuropean-L at Cornell?  Did it go to
>Telnet or change its name?  Thanks in advance.

After a bitter exchange among several proponents of variants of the Nostratic
hypothesis, and a critic of all deep reconstruction, following on the heels of
a similar exchange between a crank and several linguists, the moderator of the
Cornell list decided to discontinue the list, as was his right.

There are replacement lists.  Send me private e-mail for details.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
