LINGUIST List is a free mailing list, which comes in two versions:


LINGUIST

LINGUIST sends out an email every time one of our editors approves a posting that was submitted to LINGUIST List from its users. You may receive 10 or more issues a day. LINGUIST allows you to activate the Digest mode, a single email per day with all full text issues. It also allows you to subscribe to specific posting areas.

LINGLITE

LINGLITE is a reduced version and readers only receive one issue a day. It lists the LINGUIST issues posted that day, providing the following:

  • the subject of each issue
  • the subject and author of each message
  • the URL where you can view the issue
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All LINGUIST List issues are also posted on our social media pages and can be accessed using Amazon Echo / Alexa News Briefings.


Frequently Asked Questions


If you wish to either start or participate in a discussion, or if you wish to send an announcement to LINGUIST subscribers, please visit our submission form. Please check the posting policies before you post.
  • Go to either LINGUIST or LINGLITE.
  • Go to the section marked "Subscribing to [LISTNAME]". This section asks you to provide an email and password for your account. The password is required to manage your account settings later.
  • Go to either LINGUIST or LINGLITE.
  • Go to the section marked "[LISTNAME] subscribers"
  • Enter your email address in the box beside the "Unsubscribe or Edit Options" button and press the button.
  • You will be brought to a new page which has an "Unsubscribe" option. Select it to unsubscribe and follow the instructions given.
  • Afterwards you will be sent a confirmation mail and must follow the instructions given in that mail to complete your unsubscription.
  • If you do not receive this confirmation mail with instructions make sure that...
    • ... you typed your email address correctly
    • ... the address you tried to unsubscribe is actually subscribed to that list.
    • ... the confirmation email did not ended up in your spam folder
  • If you do not remember the email address with which you subscribed to the list, you should look at the email header of one of the emails that you received from the LINGUIST List server.
  • Go to either LINGUIST or LINGLITE.
  • Go to the section marked "[LISTNAME] subscribers"
  • Enter your email address in the box beside the "Unsubscribe or Edit Options" button and press the button.
  • Login using your email and password.
  • If you do not remember your password, fill in your email address and click "Remind". If you are subscribed with this email address, you will receive a password in your email inbox immediately.
  • Digest Mode
    • If on, subscribers will receive one email a day containing the full text of every email that was sent out over LINGUIST.
    • If off, subscribers will receive each email separately as they are sent out over LINGUIST.
  • Topic Filters
    • Every message LINGUIST sends out is tagged by its topic area (jobs, calls for papers, books, etc.).
    • If you prefer only to receive messages from certain areas, just select those areas under ‘Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to?‘.
Check the email address which is subscribed to LINGUIST or LINGLITE. It could be that
  • LINGUIST is forwarded to your current email address from a different email
  • your academic email has changed (e.g., @linguistics.school.edu becoming @school.ling.edu), in which case you need to unsubscribe the original email address
In order to identify the email address with which you are subscribed, you need to display the full email header of an email that you received from the mailing list.
If you are still experiencing issues, please email webdevlinguistlist.org
Make sure your emails are not going to your spam folder, if this does occur, try adding an exception for LINGUIST List, or adding the domain @linguistlist.org to your contacts
If you are still experiencing issues, please email webdevlinguistlist.org

This should be a depreciated problem - TrendMicro has updated their classification schema.

This seems to be an issue with some Yahoo domains, but in particular with services that make use of the Trend Micro spam filter on their mail servers. The list server is configured to automatically unsubscribe or stop mailing to accounts that bounce too many times the LINGUIST List emails (LINGUIST and LINGLITE, but also other lists that we host). This is crucial to avoid unnecessary internet data traffic and also unnecessary data transmission costs to closed accounts or non-responsive servers. New configurations of some Yahoo email servers seem to cause problems to many mailing lists, even ours. Our list server has been configured to fully comply with the Yahoo requirements and specifications. If you are unsubscribed automatically, you will receive an email about that. Either follow the instructions to subscribe again, or consider changing the email service provider to avoid future automatic unsubscriptions.

If your IT-service (some Universities are affected) is a customer of Trend Micro (your IT-team will know), they should urge them to remove the LINGUIST List listserv from their “Bad” list. Their filters list our list server as “Bad” (status Jan. and Feb. 2015), as you can see here. We tried many times to communicate with them to remove our server from this list, unfortunately without success, not even with a single response to our request. They are the only service that lists our server as spam or bad. IT-services that make use of their technology will bounce emails from LINGUIST or LINGLITE and the subscribers will be automatically removed from the subscription list after a certain number of bounces. If this happens to you, contact your IT-team at your institution and inform them about the situation. Activate your account again with the list (by following the instructions in the unsubscribe email notification, or by simply resubscribing again) and consider changing the email service provider, if you get unsubscribed again. We do not seem to have issues with any of the free or commercial providers in general (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo at yahoo.com, hotmail.com etc.).

If you have problems with the described processes or any additional question or issue, feel free to contact us.