Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tCLrH-0000ZSC; Mon, 6 Nov 95 09:20 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 3A783624 ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 8:20:43 +0100 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 02:18:26 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: WWW and Lojbab's workload X-To: lojbab@access1.digex.net, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1911 Lines: 34 Regarding pc's comments. The Web page does tell people to send orders and registrations and official correspondence to me (Lojbab) since I, and Nora as Secretary are the people who should receive same. People are also asked to send comments and corrections on any of the documents to me, since Cowan and I essentially do all document maintenance, and are doing the preparation for publication. The minilesson responses are to be sent to me for one reason - 1) they usually contain comments on the minilesson, which I read and accumulate with all other comments for an eventual rewrite of the minilesson by Athelstan or someone else. If we had a set of answers to the minilessons, I could send them out in response trivially, but no one has ever made such a set up, and a couple of areas (specifically tanru), the comments received have indicated that any answer that is given has to be non-trivial; the mini-lesson has caused problems among non-English-native Lojbanists (at least partially because Athelstan specifically wrote it for an English-native audience), and whoever composes answers should look at all previous sets of responses to make sure that confusions are addressed. I would like to see such an answer key set up, and as pc has said, I don't have time and won't have for quite a while. A lot of novices do write to me with questions about the language that could better be handled by the list, and I try where possible to politely turn them that way. But contrary to Mark Vines, I do bear in mind our "customer image", and at least try to acknowledge email. He just caught me in a bad week after my return from vacation when my kids were starting school, and I was coordinating a no-notice ex-USSR adoption on an emergency basis that required the adoptive family to stay at my house the following weekend. I also am of course running months behind on proper responses to email. lojbab