[lojban] Re: ISO 639-2 request

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Sat, 31 May 2003, Craig wrote:

> >For me it's about 5 of the people on IRC (though I've been hanging
> >out there a lot less regularly lately).  How many do you regularly
> >speak *about* lojban with?  For me it's the probably 20-30 regular
> >posters on this mailing list.
>
> Yeah, same here. 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.

I go by this: post a Lojban message to the main or members lists and see
how many people bother reading it. Compare the results to an Esperanto
list. As for students, fine: repeat it in 6 months' time.

But anything to inflate the numbers, right? I mean, those mabla
Klingon upstarts are embarrassing us in the PR arena!!!!!


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