From rmcivor@macsrule.com Thu Dec 05 14:58:07 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-server4.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.1.43]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18K4wV-0002oS-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:58:03 -0800 Received: from macsrule.com (85.78.33.65.cfl.rr.com [65.33.78.85]) by smtp-server4.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB5Mvx85002543 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:58:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:58:19 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: Loglan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) From: Robert McIvor To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20021205082815.00acfec0@pop.east.cox.net> Message-Id: <0BEBBBB2-08A5-11D7-A3CE-00039362FD2A@macsrule.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) X-archive-position: 3092 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rmcivor@macsrule.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Jeudi, déce 5, 2002, at 08:32 US/Eastern, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > At 06:00 PM 12/4/02 -0600, sbelknap wrote: >> About this poaching business I can only express mystification. I just >> don't >> get it. I generally favor transparency of intellectual capital. I see >> no >> reason why LLG should be unwilling to share their membership list >> with TLI. > > The primary reason would be privacy, and the keeping of commitment. > We have explicitly said that we will not sell our mailing list, and > therefore should not give it away either. TLI back in the 80s not > only did not make such a promise, they printed a list of member > addresses (and IIRC phone numbers) in Lognet on a periodic basis, and > in fact that was how I got the address list - from the editor of > LogNet because my initial intent was to put out a sort of unofficial > LogNet to try to get things moving again. This is one of the things that JCB considered was done illegally by his standards. Bob McIvor