All:

Since Geraldine has decided to be so childish and turn "Nostratica" back
into a forum for her own personal fantasies, I have created a new group that
is dedicated only to the discussion of Proto-Nostratic and the Nostratic
macro-family. The sign-up page is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L
, and it is currently open membership and unmoderated. That can be changed
if the need arises. Please consider joining this group, as it would be a
shame to lose the opportunity to discuss this fascinating topic.

Andy Howey

-----Original Message-----
From: Geraldine Reinhardt [mailto:waluk@...]
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 08:37
To: Richard Wordingham; Nostratica@yahoogroups.com
Cc: mcv@...
Subject: [Nostratica] Re: Management of Nostratica

Dear Richard,

I have today removed your moderator status.

There will be no change in the group description.

Miguel Carrasquer has also been relieved of his moderator duty.

Possibly you might like returning to Cybalist where you can freely post
your info.

Or better still, form your own group.

Gerry
group owner

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
To: "Geraldine Reinhardt" <waluk@...>
Cc: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: Management of Nostratica


> Dear Gerry,
> As I understand you to have made me responsible for
running
> Nostratica, I believe I am in my rights in modifying the description of
the
> group from what you set up:
>
> 'This moderated newsgroup is a relocation of the original unmoderated
> Nostratic list. In addition to discussing matters of reconstructing the
> Nostratic Proto-language and the historical languages of the Nostratic
> macrofamily, Nostratica will cross disciplines and culturel boundaries and
> explore similarities between origins of language and origins of species.'
>
> to
>
> 'Discussion of the Nostratic proto-language and its reconstruction or
> possibly even its refutation. Other issues and proposed descendant
familes
> and languages will be discussed where relevant.
>
> Nostratica replaces the spam-infested Nostratic group, which was set up to
> relieve the Indo-European discussion group Cybalist of wider-ranging
> discussions.'
>
> I intend to be very tolerant in applying the test of relevance.
>
> As you may have noticed, I have taken the liberty of enrolling Miguel as
the
> reserve moderator.
>
> I have created an unprivileged account, testwham, to check a few things
out.
> Please ignore any requests from that Yahoo user.
>
> Richard.
>
> Richard.
>
>




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