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Re: [lojban] Re: New Members, Board of Directors, other LogFest results

Robin Lee Powell wrote: [snippets]


I just realized yesterday that Nora was supposed to do indexing for
Nick's books, which she never did and I don't think any one else did,
though I haven't looked lately. 

Automated indexing is trivial.
Really? I'd always heard it was a major pain in the neck, but maybe that's because I've never used anything other than LaTeX. 


But when CVS seems to be beyond a number of Lojbanists,

You've finally realized this!!!


You seem to be proud that we're surrounded by people who can't follow
the simple, detailed instructions that I presented.  There are over 20
people, IIRC, with CVS accounts.  It's not that hard.


Depends on your perspecitve.  I used to find CVS totally intimidating.


You can't *really* think that flat text files are simple by today's
standards, can you?  By the standards of 1975, sure.  But simple in
today's eyes is a web interface.
Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I still find plain text the easiest format to deal with. Opens in anything, easy to search, easy to run through your favourite Perl script ... 


GAAAAAH!

DELEGATE IT!  If you're not going to do it anyways, it DOESN'T MATTER if
the person who promises to do it doesn't!


Good point, though a suitable attitudinal might express GAAAAH better zo'o


Try accepting the promises and giving them approval whilst
simultaneously assuming they won't get done.  Worst case: nothing
happens, same as now.

Hey, that's what I do with my students all the time ...

robin.tr

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Robin Turner
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