Seshat wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@egroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:
> > It's still not clear to me what the purpose of the qalam list was
> > initially, but now that it has turned into a forum for discussing
> the
> > encoding of Chinese characters, please disenroll me.
>
> Dear Professor Daniels,
>
> The purpose of this list, as stated in the Qalam home page
> (http://www.egroups.com/group/qalam) and already discussed before, is
> to chat about any aspect of the writing systems of the world.

> I reckon that the current discussion about splitting kanji is on
> topic and welcome -- but this is not to say that it shall ot will
> monopolize the whole Qalam list.

They are not, however, discussing Chinese writing, but computers.

> It is perfectly normal, in a mailing list, that several subjects are
> discussed at the same time.
>
> So I invite everybody wishing to do so to talk about something else.
>
> On this respect, I take the liberty to point out that, recently, some
> members *did* try to talk about something else, but their messages
> remained unanswered so far. E.g.:
>
> - "Problem identifying a couple of Tamil characters" posted by Thomas
> Tvegaard on October 24, 2000 (http://www.egroups.com/message/qalam/78)

What effort has been made to recruit persons familiar with a variety of
scripts to receive qalam?

> - "TrueType font for my invented script" posted by Doug Ewell on
> October 28, 2000 (http://www.egroups.com/message/qalam/94)
>
> Anyone wishing to take the challenge with these requests?

--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...