From xod@thestonecutters.net Sat May 31 11:51:27 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 31 May 2003 11:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.111.194.10] (helo=granite.thestonecutters.net) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19MBRo-0006x4-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 31 May 2003 11:51:20 -0700 Received: from granite.thestonecutters.net (localhost.thestonecutters.net [127.0.0.1]) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4VIlc3F048129 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 14:47:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) Received: from localhost (xod@localhost) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h4VIlcf7048126 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 14:47:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) X-Authentication-Warning: granite.thestonecutters.net: xod owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 14:47:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Invent Yourself To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ISO 639-2 request In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030531143927.J47376-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 5540 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sat, 31 May 2003, Craig wrote: > >For me it's about 5 of the people on IRC (though I've been hanging > >out there a lot less regularly lately). How many do you regularly > >speak *about* lojban with? For me it's the probably 20-30 regular > >posters on this mailing list. > > Yeah, same here. But I think there are probably interested people who aren't > regular posters. Probably. I find disingenuous the claim that there are people who are interested but aren't on the mailing list, unless they are in undeveloped regions where computer access is prohibitive. Yahoo offers digest format, and if that's too much of a Lojban overload, I daresay the interest level is rather slight. I go by this: post a Lojban message to the main or members lists and see how many people bother reading it. Compare the results to an Esperanto list. As for students, fine: repeat it in 6 months' time. But anything to inflate the numbers, right? I mean, those mabla Klingon upstarts are embarrassing us in the PR arena!!!!! -- .o'i mu xagji sofybakni cu zvati le purdi [Caution!] There are five hungry Soviet cows in the garden!