requests for corpora

Christopher Bader (cbader@MIT.EDU)
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 18:06:44 -0500

This list gets lots of requests for corpora. Often, I (and probably a lot
of other people) would like to know what responses they get, but very few
requests contain the promise to post a summary of responses to the list.

Consequently, some people post their responses to the list, too, wasting
a lot of band-width, and making it hard to keep track of the answers.

So I have a request for both requesters and responders.

Requesters: ALWAYS promise to post a summary to the list, and do it.
This should be considered part of the etiquette of making a request.

Responders: Reply to the requester, not to the list.

Thoughts?

Christopher Bader
Dept. of Linguistics
MIT 20D-219
Cambridge, MA 02139