From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Wed Nov 06 15:40:13 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 6 Nov 2002 23:40:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 33381 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2002 23:40:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Nov 2002 23:40:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mrin02.st1.spray.net) (212.78.193.8) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2002 23:40:12 -0000 Received: from lmin06.st1.spray.net (lmin06.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.106]) by mrin02.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558F02426C6 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:40:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-71-5.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.71.5]) by lmin06.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B6C27DAB for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:40:10 +0100 (MET) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: What the heck is this crap? Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:41:58 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <1a7.b7d49e8.2afabe31@aol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 16970 pc: > lojban-out@lojban.org writes: > << > > At the very least, could the High And Mighty Masters write this stuff > down somewhere? > > >> > It is all in the archives. However, any attempt to publish the > results -- or even the range of opinions -- merely sets off another > round running through all the same crap again, rather than be taken > as definitive. Were there any probability that publishing (yet > again, in most cases) the results of these discussions would stop the > pointless nattering and dilettante whining, we could do it pretty > rapidly. As it is (or, at least, has always been), no one is > inclined to waste the time to wite it up once more. I have in fact been making an effort to document jboske stuff on the wiki. I'm sure I've missed tons of stuff, because there's so much of it, and I don't document stuff where no clear majoritarian view emerges. But at least I'm trying, and hopefully others will be too. The secret is to try to summarize not the entire discussion, but only the eventual conclusions. --And.