From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 17 14:12:57 2010 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns0Xx-0002z3-69 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:12:57 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:12:57 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: This list will move soon. Message-ID: <20100317211257.GL25330@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20100317202134.GF25330@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) \o/ Your praise is very valuable to me, because of all the hard work you yourself do around here. :) Thanks. -Robin On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 05:11:17PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote: > That is astonishing. Well done, and thank you! -Eppcott > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > > > I've been working *very* hard for the last several weeks on > > compiling an as-complete-as-possible collection of all the main > > Lojban list mails, ever.  It's not complete, but at 45 thousand > > mails, it's pretty impressive.  :) > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/topics?gvc=2 is the google > > group resulting from what I've done, and represents a staggering > > amount of work.  I expect praise. > > > > The driving issue here is that for many years I was getting regular > > requests to make a web forum, but I didn't want to split the > > community, so I found software (Tiki) that could keep an email list > > and a web forum synchronized. > > > > The problem is, it keeps breaking, and I'm tired of fixing it.  On > > top of that, managing non-trivial email these days is itself a full > > time job (because of disparate spam protection at different ISPs), > > and I'm tired of doing it. > > > > So, I'm outsourcing the mailing list to Google, which solves both > > this problems very well, so I don't have to keep spending my time > > working on obnoxious busy-work, when I could actually be doing stuff > > to further Lojban. > > > > Some time in the next few days, when I get a few hours to rub > > together, the current list will be totally shut down, the last bits > > of mail will be uploaded, and the current list of subscribers will > > be transferred. > > > > The current email address for the list will still work, it will just > > forward to google groups instead. > > > > -Robin > > > > -- > > They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." > > And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something > > other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz > > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org > > with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if > > you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help. > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org > with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if > you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help. > -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/