From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Sat Aug 28 17:46:39 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sat, 28 Aug 1993 21:50:42 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sat, 28 Aug 1993 21:50:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199308290150.AA04909@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2968; Sat, 28 Aug 93 21:49:11 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 6008; Sat, 28 Aug 93 21:52:00 EDT Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1993 21:46:39 -0400 Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" Sender: Lojban list From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Subject: MediaMOO and cmene X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu X-Cc: salsbury@mailbox.syr.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: This is just a really quick note since I want to say these things now before Monday, when I'll be able to read in my mail properly. 1) I didn't check all the cmene carefully, assuming that for something official-looking you'd watch more, but come on, guys, {la vlad *drakulas.}??? This is getting ridiculous. I don't think there's any major net-lojbanist who hasn't been caught on something like this at least once. Is the rule worth it? 2) MediaMOO. As it just happens, I'd been playing MUDs (and MUSHes and MUCKs), related systems to MOO for years now, and have also done a fair amount of work on a MOO (I'm pretty good at the MOO programming language, and in fact developed a system on a MOO (now defunct, of course) that actually handled languages. It enabled someone to speak in, say, lojban, but really what would happen is that the plain (English) text would be displayed normally to anyone who understood lojban, and lojban-looking doubletalk would show to people who didn't. It was also possible to understand a language partially, and get maybe every nth word. Anecdote: the MOOO in question was Star-Trek based, and I had the Vulcans there speaking gibberish generated from Volap"uk! Somehow I think that the Vulcans would like it.). I'll try to get around to checking out MediaMOO real soon (can I be a programmer?) ~mark / yndrd will be my name there.