From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Dec 05 16:59:04 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 6 Dec 2002 00:59:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 95243 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 00:59:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Dec 2002 00:59:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2002 00:59:03 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18K6pb-00045F-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:59:03 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18K6p2-00044p-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:58:28 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:58:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-server4.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.1.43]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18K6ot-00044g-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:58:19 -0800 Received: from macsrule.com (85.78.33.65.cfl.rr.com [65.33.78.85]) by smtp-server4.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gB60wH85012399 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:58:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:58:36 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: Official Statement- LLG Board approves new baseline policy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20021205085137.0330a880@pop.east.cox.net> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) X-archive-position: 3100 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rmcivor@macsrule.com Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robert McIvor From: Robert McIvor Reply-To: rmcivor@macsrule.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Jeudi, déce 5, 2002, at 09:06 US/Eastern, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > But the 30-year TLI customer list is probably unrecoverable, even to > McIvor, and most of JCB's book buyers did so more than 25 years ago. > I know at one time in our acquaintance, JCB had a list of some 2000 purchases or enquiries about the 1975 edition. It may well have been destroyed. I believe he at one time, probably when the latest edition appeared, sent cards to these people informing them of the new edition, but a large proportion of them returned undeliverable, and I don't think the delivered ones produced much response. He may have been careless about his bookkeeping, but he did keep careful note of such things as enquiries, responses to ads etc. My memory of the above is rather vague, so don't take it as gospel, aside from the fact that the list existed at one time. I think it would be even more useless at present, and I think the analogy of corn growers to book buyers is weak.