From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Mon Mar 26 14:11:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 26 Mar 2001 22:11:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 6266 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 22:11:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2001 22:11:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 23:12:33 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id RAA12726 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:18:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:18:27 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Marketing lojban Message-ID: <20010326171826.B11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jay.kominek@colorado.edu on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:02:56AM -0700 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:02:56AM -0700, Jay Kominek wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Invent Yourself wrote: > > > Interest in Lojban seems to be short-lived in most people. They appear, > > get intensely interested, invent many ideas for software projects or such, > > and within 3 months they vanish into obscurity. I suspect there is a > > factor that would keep them interested for longer periods, but I'm not > > sure what that is. > > I think people would maintain their interest longer if they saw things > happening outside the mailing list. Outside of the mailing list, balvi and > jbofi'e are the only things that doesn't look fairly stagnant. > > > My last call for IRC chat got one interested > > respondent. That's an increase from the previous call. > > I've been thinking about the whole IRC thing, too. People discussed > switching networks before, but nothing really came about because of it > (that I'm aware of, anyways). I don't think EFNet really impedes anyone > who _really_ wants to get on, but the frequent difficulties with > connecting would probably make casual attempts to get on a pain. I spent over a _month_ trying to get on at one point (or, at least, get on when the server wasn't split). I am _not_ inexperienced with computers. I no longer bother. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP