CONLANG
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CONLANG is the name of an e-mail list devoted to the discussion of constructed languages of all kinds (except that 'evangelism' of auxiliary languages, such as Esperanto, is disapproved of), and linguistics in general. The CONLANG list is an established community with upwards of 600 members, including many regular high-volume contributors, comprising professional linguists as well as amateurs. Its archives (http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html) are located at a server in Brown University.
This list pioneered and popularized the acronym of CONLANG for constructed language; conlang (now typically written lowercase) as a term is now used very more widely and is better known than its eponymous mailing list.