Technical arguments driving students away? (was: Re: On a number of parts of threads and single threads disguised as several

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On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:08:43PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:
> > At 09:40 PM 07/20/2001 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > > b) turning off new people who don't generally understand the esoteric
> > > > nature of the discussion (and sometimes convincing them that the language
> > > > isn't really "done" and hence ready for someone to learn).
> > >
> > ><AOL>
> > >I agree.
> > ></AOL>
> > >
> > >The one (1) person in my lojban classes that tried reading the list left
> > >almost instantly for this reason.  I have had about 6 students so far.
> >
> > Left the list, or your classes, or both?
> >
> > If they left the list, then it merely means that we don't have a list
> > that reaches the entire community.  If they gave up on the language,
> > then the technicalities are driving people away.
>
> Oh, sorry, should have specified.  They left the list.



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