you start your message cautiosly:
>Although this message doesn't bear any visible relation with the
>linguistic issues being currently discussed, I would appreciate...
-- I'd just like you and everybody-who-wasn't-then to know that this is
precisely what the old xlchc discussion used to look like (when I came in):
a mixture of one or more ongoing threads, "administrative" messages (like
conference announcements) and requests like yours that may or may not spawn
a new thread in the discussion.
Eva