From xod@sixgirls.org Mon Aug 27 15:43:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 27 Aug 2001 22:43:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 67171 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 22:43:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Aug 2001 22:43:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 22:43:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7RMhHH26618 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:43:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:43:16 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] jboske list In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Craig wrote: > > xod: > > > If the beginners go away to beginnners, and the experts go to jboske, > what > > > is supposed to remain on this list? > > > the experts would join jboske but not leave lojban list. Discussions that > > bore the sh*t out 90% of lojban list subscribers and clog up their > > inboxes could move to jboske, and in jboske people could when Real Life > > is pressing set one or the other list nomail without losing touch > > completely. Note the hypothetical woulds & coulds. > > But xod's right. When was the last time you saw a non-tech thread other than > this one, plus a few translations? I do not want to have to keep track of > two mailing lists plus the wiki. If you want my input, it's don't do it, but > I won't complain if you do. Not out loud, at least. My question is: how much traffic is not beginner issues or expert issues? If both traffics leave, what remains? Even the announcements have gone into their own list, although announcement are never sent anyway. ----- "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