[lojban-beginners] Re: Boise locals

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

Jared Angell wrote:
>     My old records similarly show two people on our mailing list in Boise,
>     and one in Pocatello, but I haven't heard from any of them in over 10
>     years.  Hmm, one had an unusual name, and I see that he is probably now
>     a professor at a university in Pittsburgh.  Have to look him up next
>     time I go up there.  Another of them I know was only interested in
>     Lojban as one of several conlangs, and he probably never learned the
>     language (and may no longer be in Idaho)
>
>     Back when LLG did paper mailings multiple times a year it was a lot
>     easier to find groups of Lojbanists.  
>
> Does that not, indeed, indicate a regression in the # of Lojban speakers? 

Not hardly, since each of the two Lojban mailing lists has around 4 
times as many people subscribed as were on the one list back then (and 
back then, 1991-1992, I doubt if more than a couple dozen people could 
write coherent non-trivial paragraphs of Lojban).

lojbab