Re: [lojban] Re: This list will move soon.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

\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
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> 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/
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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-- 
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/