From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Oct 04 07:53:47 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_2_0); 4 Oct 2002 14:53:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 84840 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2002 14:53:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Oct 2002 14:53:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao04.cox.net) (68.1.17.241) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 2002 14:53:47 -0000 Received: from lojban.lojban.org ([68.100.206.153]) by lakemtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20021004145347.WXSS1315.lakemtao04.cox.net@lojban.lojban.org> for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:53:47 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021004104529.030cbbf0@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:47:21 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] preventing cartmanism (was: RE: Re: a new kind of fundamentalism In-Reply-To: <15a.1538a7b1.2acf01b9@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Robert LeChevalier X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab At 10:37 AM 10/4/02 -0400, pc wrote: >In a message dated 10/4/2002 7:21:38 AM Central Daylight Time, >a.rosta@lycos.co.uk writes: ><< >>My view continues to be that the best >>solution is to ghettoize (to different lists and different areas >>of the wiki) the controversial activities of the various factions, >>and reserve the common forums for uncontroversial things. Lojbab >>seems to have come round to this view recently. > > >> >Unfortunately, there is more than ample evidence that there are no >uncontroversial things. I suppose this means that as soon as controversy >arises (or reaches a fuzzy point of enough intensity) the combatants >should shift to list -- presumably reporting back the conclusion -- if any >-- to the original site. >This would be simplified, by the way, if lojbanlist made the list the >automatic recipient of replies, rather than the originator of the message >replied to. Then, once thelist was shifted, there would be no excuse for >slipping back to the general list accidentally. The new multiplicity of lists is probably the best argument for this I've yet seen. In any event, as Robin mirrors lists over to the lojban.org site, he can set it up that way and then people can have either default. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org