From xod@sixgirls.org Mon Aug 27 13:32:49 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 27 Aug 2001 20:32:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 26792 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 20:21:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Aug 2001 20:21:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 20:21:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7RKLRg25130 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:21:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:21:27 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Ease of use considered harmful (was: lojban-tech list (was: Beginners' mailing list and scheduled IRC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, And Rosta wrote: > I sent (or meant to send) my remarks as a private comment to Jorge, who > in sending his reply must have thought my reply was one of the many > quotidian victims of unmunged-headers-considered-harmful. If you maintain a sane reply policy on jboske, in contrast to this most annoying behavior noted above, I shall surely enjoy moving some traffic there! ----- "It is not enough that an article is new and useful. The Constitution never sanctioned the patenting of gadgets. [...] It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures." -- Supreme Court Justice Douglas, 1950