From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 04 14:40:49 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 4 Aug 2001 21:40:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 78256 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 21:40:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Aug 2001 21:40:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 21:40:48 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15T9A7-0003Mo-00 for ; Sat, 04 Aug 2001 14:40:47 -0700 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:40:47 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] On a number of parts of threads and single threads disguised as several Message-ID: <20010804144046.J27716@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:37:29PM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > This issue comes up every 18 months or so. > > Robin: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:17:31PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > > > b) turning off new people who don't generally understand the esoteric > > > nature of the discussion (and sometimes convincing them that the language > > > isn't really "done" and hence ready for someone to learn). > > > > I agree. > > (AOL?) Back in the day, before Eternal September (and even after to some extent), AOLers were known to respond to 100+ line posts and include the whole thing, only to append 'I agree.'. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/