From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Wed Jul 24 15:39:51 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 24 Jul 2002 22:39:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 2471 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2002 22:39:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Jul 2002 22:39:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2002 22:39:50 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17XUnO-0000VW-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:39:50 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17XUnL-0000VF-00; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:39:48 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17XUnG-0000V6-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:39:43 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A28121F6 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:39:38 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp12.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.14]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D1811F12 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:39:35 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3D3F572D.2000602@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:41:01 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020610 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: New Members, Board of Directors, other LogFest results References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020723195058.030913c0@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020723025544.032cba90@pop.east.cox.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20010730221611.00b10c00@pop.cais.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020723025544.032cba90@pop.east.cox.net> <20020723103956.E28971@miranda.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20020723195058.030913c0@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020724122649.032e7ec0@pop.east.cox.net> <20020724211215.GD17369@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 X-archive-position: 258 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: robin Reply-To: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810606 X-Yahoo-Profile: digambaranath Robin Lee Powell wrote: [snippets] >>I just realized yesterday that Nora was supposed to do indexing for >>Nick's books, which she never did and I don't think any one else did, >>though I haven't looked lately. >> >> > >Automated indexing is trivial. > Really? I'd always heard it was a major pain in the neck, but maybe that's because I've never used anything other than LaTeX. >>>But when CVS seems to be beyond a number of Lojbanists, >>> >>> >>You've finally realized this!!! >> >> > >You seem to be proud that we're surrounded by people who can't follow >the simple, detailed instructions that I presented. There are over 20 >people, IIRC, with CVS accounts. It's not that hard. > Depends on your perspecitve. I used to find CVS totally intimidating. >You can't *really* think that flat text files are simple by today's >standards, can you? By the standards of 1975, sure. But simple in >today's eyes is a web interface. > Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I still find plain text the easiest format to deal with. Opens in anything, easy to search, easy to run through your favourite Perl script ... >GAAAAAH! > >DELEGATE IT! If you're not going to do it anyways, it DOESN'T MATTER if >the person who promises to do it doesn't! > Good point, though a suitable attitudinal might express GAAAAH better zo'o >Try accepting the promises and giving them approval whilst >simultaneously assuming they won't get done. Worst case: nothing >happens, same as now. > > Hey, that's what I do with my students all the time ... robin.tr -- "There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't" - thinkgeek.com Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin