From rizen@ispwest.com Tue Apr 09 15:07:11 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rizen@ispwest.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 9 Apr 2002 22:07:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 22142 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2002 21:51:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 9 Apr 2002 21:51:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ispwestemail.aceweb.net) (216.52.245.18) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Apr 2002 21:51:01 -0000 Received: from there (unverified [66.2.47.219]) by ispwestemail.aceweb.net (Vircom SMTPRS 1.2.222) with SMTP id for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:47:34 -0700 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] IRC Discussion (Which I'd like comments on) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:46:49 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ted Reed X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=104181342 X-Yahoo-Profile: xrizen X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 13950 On Tuesday 09 April 2002 10:43, Jay Kominek wrote: > I don't think we'd have a whole lot of luck dragging the generally > accepted experts onto IRC. > > However, everyone could just agree to a topic, read up on it, and then ask > each other questions at a predesignated time. > > So, since I havn't noticed many of the new people on the IRC channel using > abstractions (quite as much as they probably should be), how about making > this Saturday abstraction day? (Chapter 11 of the refgram.) Maybe we can > aim most of the activity for the mid to late evening in UTC? 8PM in UTC is what in Pacific Time (+8), Noon or 4AM? If It's 4AM like I think, perhaps Noon UTC would be best. That way you could get Europe and America in there without anyone having to be up too late or too early. (The people in Finland or elsewhere in the far east of Europe might have to wake up a bit early, but the rest of us should be fine.) -- rizen