From lojbab@lojban.org Thu Apr 13 14:27:29 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21721 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2000 20:58:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 Apr 2000 20:58:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy.cais.net) (205.252.14.63) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Apr 2000 20:58:58 -0000 Received: from bob ([209.8.89.177]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17732 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:57:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000413163531.00a66b20@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:02:38 -0400 To: lojban@onelist.com Subject: onelist/egroups merger Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-eGroups-From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group Well, the mailing list merger is apparently complete, and people may have gotten a message to this effect. I went and checked out the egroups.com site, and founds some interesting stuff and made a couple of changes in my capacity as joint moderator. 1. Hopefully we will be properly listed in the category index soon. They had us listed under "dictionary: reference" for some reason. We are now to be under sciences/social sciences/languages and linguistics/constructed languages/logical languages/Lojban (they had a category set up for us, but did not have us in that category!) I suggest that whoever moderates jbosnu make the corresponding change. (If you want to add me and/or cowan as joint moderator(s) so we can keep the two lists in sync, that is fine.) Also for said moderator, you may want to add some English description to the text description for the list, or at least add the name of the language with a capital - a search for "Lojban" does not find "jbosnu", though a search for "lojban" finds both lists. 2. We now have 20 megs of file storage space that any member can add to. I am going to suggest that anything people create or would like to see on the Lojban web pages should be uploaded to the file site. This includes suggested modifications to the Lojban pages themselves for the HTML experts. I will try to check the area regularly and decide what to use and cleanup what I can't use (or weed things out if we approach the size limit). One file is already there. 3. Under data bases, I have set up a contact list, so people may add addresses and other information. This could be useful for people who want to find Lojbanists who live near them, as well as for enabling private Lojban interactions. 4. There is apparently the capability to set up impromptu Lojban chats, a la IRC. You need Java capability, but this may be easier for some people than using IRC. I did not see an ability to log the channel. 5. People can add links to Lojban sites. Some have already been added by people who noticed this feature, but there are a lot of sites that could still be added, and the Webring in particular seems like something that should be on the list directly. 6. If you want a link to Lojban List on your page, the "promotions" link on the Lojban List page gives two alternate forms of HTML that can be added to a page. 7. There is a calendar function on the Lojban List page, which if I understand correctly could be used to schedule IRC or chat sessions (Nora and I have always wondered when to look for such sessions - I have never found anyone on #Lojban when I have looked). 8. There is also the capability to conduct polls, though I'm not sure how we would productively use this. At the moment, Lojban List has 188 members, plus another 34 people who are bouncing (I need to do some weeding to see which addresses have been bouncing for a long time.) ---- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org (newly updated!)