From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Fri Jul 27 19:15:33 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 28 Jul 2001 02:15:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 44766 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2001 02:15:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Jul 2001 02:15:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Jul 2001 02:15:32 -0000 Received: from m54-mp1-cvx1b.bir.ntl.com ([62.255.40.54] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15QJOP-0002mY-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 02:59:49 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: how can i help lojban? what can $ do? Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 03:14:37 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <9jckvr+lvhb@eGroups.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" > From: thinkit8@lycos.com [mailto:thinkit8@lycos.com] > anyways, lojban is one of the only things i ever thought to donate > money to (i don't even tip). so if you ever see a huge donation, it > might be me. i floated the $10-million dollar value out but even > that seems small. what's more important--lojban or social security? > and social security dwarfs $10 million. This is not a very important point to discuss, but I am nonetheless wondering: The above seems to imply that lojban is more important than social security; but it seems incredible to me that anyone sane enough to be a lojbanophile could believe that. Did I misunderstand the point that was being made? --And.