Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 12842 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 16:36:28 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 2 May 2000 16:36:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 16244 invoked by uid 40001); 2 May 2000 16:37:05 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 16241 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 16:37:03 -0000 Received: from c3.egroups.com (207.138.41.143) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 2 May 2000 16:37:03 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2497-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.37] by c3.egroups.com with NNFMP; 02 May 2000 16:37:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 1814 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 16:37:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 May 2000 16:37:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qg.egroups.com) (10.1.2.27) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 May 2000 16:37:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 23324 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 16:37:00 -0000 Received: from darius.concentric.net (207.155.198.79) by qg.egroups.com with SMTP; 2 May 2000 16:37:00 -0000 Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id MAA27799; Tue, 2 May 2000 12:36:57 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Errors-To: Received: from concentric.net ([216.112.226.144]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id MAA21622; Tue, 2 May 2000 12:36:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <390EF5D7.5E9BDDBC@concentric.net> Organization: Herds of Wild Buffalo Girls X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en To: lojban@egroups.com Cc: Daniel Gudlat , lojbab@lojban.org References: <4.2.2.20000501214024.00b28100@127.0.0.1> <04a901bfb422$c492b560$22191bc1@rus.ger.com> From: Brook Conner MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:39:27 -0400 Reply-To: nellardo@concentric.net Subject: Re: [lojban] slashdot.org gives Lojban a push Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 3372 Lines: 76 la daniel. cucku di'e=20=20 > la lojbab. cusku di'e >=20 > > I just found out that Lojban was merely mentioned in a topic of > discussion > > on slashdot.org a few days ago. The result has been a phenomonal set [...] > That's known as the "slashdot effect". Well, more correctly, the > slashdot effect pertains to the downing of web servers that are well > suited to the load normally imposed on them, when those servers get hit > by a million geeks in one day after the site was mentioned in a slash > dot front article. This *was* a front article - lojban.org is lucky it didn't die. Had the story been more "newsy" than the "Ask Slashdot" one about a "common Internet language", then we probably would have gotten a lot more hits. As it was, most of the discussion was along the lines of the usual naysayers on auxlang and such - no artificial language will become a worldwide standard, because it's too hard to replace the one that is already there (English, usually). Now, if I ever get around to that programatic semantics for lojban and it produces something truly interesting and useful (or at least amusing - e.g., using Doom or Quake as a sysadmin tool gets a lot of attention on /.), then /. would really pay attention. Hmmm, now here's a thought - Lojban as a speakable replacement for Perl..... For sure you can't speak Perl - too much punctuation. Stuff like $_ =3D~ s/\//::/g is legitimate perl - roughly this means "Replace every / with a :: in the most recently relevant string." This is something that could quite certainly be said in lojban exactly. Gonna have to think on this one and post some more details later. [...]=20 > > Oh, kinda interesting is that the hits on the 29th came from 63 > different > > country domains, including such places as Christmas Island and Niue. >=20 > Hmm, we may finally get a truly international audience on the list. This > may prove interesting. Three cheers to slashdot if it really happens! Yeah - /. is a global audience, though (not surprisingly) skewed to North America, and can bring down sites anywhere in the world. One recent mainstream article (Forbes?) mentioned a site in South Africa that got slashdotted. The sysadmins went on about how all of a sudden (to the minute of the story appearing on /.) they had thousands of crazy penguins streaming across the Atlantic, and they had a couple of months worth of hits in a few hours. =20 > > I am not sure I ever heard of slashdot.org before this. But > > obviously a lot of people read it seriously. >=20 > You betcha. It's THE geek site on the internet. And your comment above > disproves the alleged geekiness of lojban: How can lojban be a geek > language when the head of the LLG doesn't even know about /. ? Hahahaha! Yep - kind of like my favorite "geek test" - one "question", and if you laugh, you're a geek: "You see a Volkswagon Beetle with a license plate that reads 'FEATURE'" Brook ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How about a flat, no-fee long distance rate of 6.7=A2 per min. -=20 or less? Join beMANY! Our huge buying group gives you rates which=20 fall monthly, plus an extra $60 in FREE calls! http://click.egroups.com/1/3820/2/_/17627/_/957285421/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com