From ragnarok@pobox.com Fri Mar 15 08:43:03 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 15 Mar 2002 16:43:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 79964 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2002 16:43:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Mar 2002 16:43:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 16:43:02 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.90] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A4993F800062; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:43:05 -0500 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] openprojects IRC whining. Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:43:02 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20020315154455.GL354@bapli> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Reply-To: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl >> > 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. 1. Had they all heard the name Lojban before? If openprojects doesn't give us any exposure with people who havent been exposed to us before, what's the point? 2. Have any of them become active Lojbanists? If openprojects makes people have heard of us, that's good, but not as good as targeted recruiting toward people who might actually want to learn lojban. A reasonable number of IRC people are not as geeky as most of us are.