From jewel@pixie.co.za Fri Mar 15 07:48:51 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jleuner@elandtech.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 15 Mar 2002 15:48:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 52216 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2002 15:48:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Mar 2002 15:48:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lenny.elandtech.com) (212.17.60.214) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 15:48:50 -0000 Received: from [192.168.100.211] (helo=bapli ident=mail) by lenny.elandtech.com with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16ltsb-0000AP-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:44:29 +0000 Received: from jleuner by bapli with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16ltt1-0001h3-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:44:55 +0000 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:44:55 +0000 To: jewel@pixie.co.za Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] openprojects IRC whining. Message-ID: <20020315154455.GL354@bapli> References: <20020314222845.GQ29405@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: John Leuner From: John Leuner X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=41106253 X-Yahoo-Profile: jewel2011 > > I *still* think that having it on a public servernet doesn't help; AFAIK > > *no-one* has come to lojban through accidently seeing the channel on > > openprojects, unless they had previously heard of the language before. > > You've not been on there is quite a long time. I distinctly recall > greeting more than a handful of people who have stumbled in there, > recognizing only the name, and coming to see if it was the language, if > people in there spoke it, etc, etc. There have been quite a few people who have popped into #lojban to see what's there. The network has been more stable recently, despite its continuous growth. http://netsplit.de/networks/OpenProjectsNet/seasons.shtml Robin, you should spend some time on the openprojects network and see if you still feel that it's unbearable. You talk about being split away from the other users for hours. I use the network every day and I've never seen something like that. John Leuner