Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 836 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 14:09:40 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 11 May 2000 14:09:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 27966 invoked by uid 40001); 11 May 2000 14:09:18 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 27960 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 14:09:17 -0000 Received: from fj.egroups.com (208.50.144.72) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 11 May 2000 14:09:17 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2652-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.37] by fj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2000 14:09:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 21571 invoked from network); 11 May 2000 14:08:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 May 2000 14:08:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.240.138) by mta3 with SMTP; 11 May 2000 14:08:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 53218 invoked by uid 0); 11 May 2000 14:08:39 -0000 Message-ID: <20000511140839.53217.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 12.128.10.26 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 11 May 2000 07:08:39 PDT X-Originating-IP: [12.128.10.26] To: lojban@egroups.com From: "Jorge Llambias" 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: Thu, 11 May 2000 07:08:39 PDT Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1219 Lines: 38 la pycyn cusku di'e >ISO's standards are voluntary and some of >them pretty uniformly ignored because stupid (hey, it was a committee, what >can you expect). i u'i la lojban ji'a se platu lo kamni >Better one convention, even if you think >it sucks -- apparently not practically, but because it is "illogical" >Sounds >like Brits and driving. Personally I don't care much one way or the other. I like DDMMYYYY because it's what I'm used to in Spanish, and I like YYYYMMDD because of all the reasons Hartmut is giving. I just don't see a pressing need to impose a convention at this point. As you say, it is not something likely to cause confusion. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Double your manufacturer's warranty on all computers, home appliances, and electronics AND win up to $500 towards your purchase! http://click.egroups.com/1/3749/3/_/17627/_/958054153/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com