From robin@bilkent.edu.tr Tue Jun 03 05:37:11 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 Jun 2003 05:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19NB2E-0007aX-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 05:37:03 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D49D31EA3 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:36:25 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp112.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.112]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF622A75A for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:36:22 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3EDCB3CC.1010603@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:42:20 +0100 From: Robin Turner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Interest level (was ISO 639-2 request) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-archive-position: 5578 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list la_skat wrote: > --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Invent Yourself wrote: > >>On Sat, 31 May 2003, Craig wrote: > > > >>>But I think there are probably interested people who aren't > > regular posters. Probably. > >>I find disingenuous the claim that there are people who are > > interested but > >>aren't on the mailing list, unless they are in undeveloped regions > > where > >>computer access is prohibitive. Yahoo offers digest format, and if > > that's > >>too much of a Lojban overload, I daresay the interest level is > > rather > >>slight. > > > Well, the claim wasn't "that there are people who are interested but > aren't on the mailing list." The claim was that "there are probably > interested people who aren't *regular posters*." > > I think it quite likely that there are many interested people > who are not regular posters. > > I count myself as an "interested person." I am not a regular > poster. Since this is probably my first post, I wouldn't even call > myself a poster of any sort, regular or otherwise. My lack of time, > and my lack of anything substantive to add to the discussion don't > make me any less interested. > > I'm subscribed to the digest of both this list and the beginners' > list. I just barely have time to read them. I make the time > because I'm interested. > True - plenty of people prefer to lurk, and people also go through long periods of inactivity (I'm a prime example). robin.tr -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin