Re: Warning to list: Race and Anthropology

I'm just a lurker on this list, but I'd feel sad if you all started speaking in abbreviations, or if you avoided certain topics just because you are afraid to attract racists or other internet weirdos. This is your list, not theirs. People should be able to speak freely in here. I've been following this list daily for about a year and the risk of the wrong people finding Cybalist seems to be very small - and when they do, they reveal themselves quickly, bursting like soap bubbles, and then they are gone. Of all the discussion groups I've seen this is the one that should worry the least about attracting weirdos. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels that the level of discussion in here is far above most internet forums.

Håkan
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Piotr -
Alas, keywords such as "Indo-European", "Aryan" or "Proto-Germanic" >will
occasionally attract repugnant monsters from outer cyberspace. >Perhaps we
should never mention the Caucasian languages (or use >abbreviations only),
since "Caucasian" is another powerful attractor.

Glen -
You're absolutely right. Actually, mispelling [Hey! You misspelled "misspell". You did it on purpose, I'm sure :o) ] these keywords purposely is
another strategy which I will be practicing from now on. Gee, I didn't think
any of the Natzzis knew how to operate search engines or even computers. For
those "C" languages we keep talking about, we have a choice between the
simple abbreviations NEC and NWC, or the ugly spellings seen between
Nakh-Daghestinian and Abkhazo-Adyghean. We might also want to say "Dene-C.", "Indo-A." and *X-Manus as well :)