From pycyn@aol.com Sat Apr 14 06:44:28 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 14 Apr 2001 13:44:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 51980 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2001 13:44:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Apr 2001 13:44:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m06.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.161) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Apr 2001 13:44:26 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.14.) id r.59.9ac9679 (17379) for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 09:44:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <59.9ac9679.2809ae35@aol.com> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 09:44:21 EDT Subject: kudos To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_59.9ac9679.2809ae35_boundary" Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_59.9ac9679.2809ae35_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While it is being handed out, I'd like to retroactively say a few words in behalf of Richard Curnow and Bob Seidensticker, who not only actually produced -- and refined -- usable products but did so, as far as i can find, without endless hours disputing the relative (de)merits of half a dozen mutually incompatible, generally bug-laden, and almost universally unusable cult classics of a variety of world-saviors. Computers may actually do something good for the world when the lunatic fringe either creates a product that does what it is asked to do or stops mucking up the water. Meanwhile, it is nice to get some sane results from time to time. Thanks, Richard and Bob! --part1_59.9ac9679.2809ae35_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While it is being handed out, I'd like to retroactively say a few words in
behalf of  Richard Curnow and Bob Seidensticker, who not only actually
produced -- and refined  -- usable products but did so, as far as i can find,
without endless hours disputing the relative (de)merits of half a dozen
mutually incompatible, generally bug-laden, and almost universally unusable
cult classics of a variety of world-saviors.  Computers may actually do
something good for the world when the lunatic fringe either creates a product
that does what it is asked to do or stops mucking up the water.  Meanwhile,
it is nice to get some sane results from time to time.  Thanks, Richard and
Bob! --part1_59.9ac9679.2809ae35_boundary--