From lojbab@lojban.org Tue May 02 09:15:39 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30711 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 16:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 May 2000 16:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO q8.egroups.com) (10.1.2.31) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 May 2000 16:15:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 12731 invoked from network); 2 May 2000 16:15:39 -0000 Received: from stmpy.cais.net (205.252.14.63) by mx3.egroups.com with SMTP; 2 May 2000 16:15:39 -0000 Received: from bob (dynamic203.cl8.cais.net [205.177.20.203]) by stmpy.cais.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14153 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 12:14:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000502120831.00a1cec0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 12:18:19 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] slashdot.org gives Lojban a push In-Reply-To: <04a901bfb422$c492b560$22191bc1@rus.ger.com> References: <4.2.2.20000501214024.00b28100@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 12:40 PM 05/02/2000 +0200, Daniel Gudlat wrote: >la lojbab. cusku di'e > > I just found out that Lojban was merely mentioned in a topic of discussion > > on slashdot.org a few days ago. The result has been a phenomonal set of > > hits (not to mention a discussion thread that was around 400K of download, > > though relatively little of that was about Lojban). > >That's known as the "slashdot effect". Well, more correctly, the >slashdot effect pertains to the downing of web servers that are well >suited to the load normally imposed on them, when those servers get hit >by a million geeks in one day after the site was mentioned in a slash >dot front article. Well, I don't *think* we went down %^) I'm a little concerned whether we'll have a premium charge from our ISP for exceeding some bandwidth limit. > > The following, where I respond to Don Harlow, who told me about it, gives > > the URL and the stunning hit numbers. If any significant percentage of > > these turns to Lojban List subscriptions or book orders, we will shortly be > > drowning in new people. > >Don't count on it, but it's entirely possible that the number of >subscribers to the lojban list on egroups will double in the coming >weeks... That would be nice, especially if they are seriously interested people. > > Oh, kinda interesting is that the hits on the 29th came from 63 different > > country domains, including such places as Christmas Island and Niue. > >Hmm, we may finally get a truly international audience on the list. This >may prove interesting. Three cheers to slashdot if it really happens! We already have a quite international audience. Take a look sometime. Our most frequent poster is Jorge from Argentina. Chris from New Zealand just responded on this thread. I think something like 30-40% of list subscribers are known to be non-US people > > I am not sure I ever heard of slashdot.org before this. But > > obviously a lot of people read it seriously. > >You betcha. It's THE geek site on the internet. And your comment above >disproves the alleged geekiness of lojban: How can lojban be a geek >language when the head of the LLG doesn't even know about /. ? There are a LOT of things that the head of the LLG doesn't know about the Internet, and especially about Web sites, since I rarely browse and never surf. lojbab ---- 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!)