From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Sat Aug 04 17:57:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 5 Aug 2001 00:57:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 31788 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2001 00:57:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Aug 2001 00:57:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta02-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.42) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2001 00:57:44 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.43.93]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010805005743.ZSSQ29790.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:57:43 +0100 To: Subject: CHAT: RE: [lojban] On a number of parts of threads and single threads disguised as several Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:56:50 +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: <20010804144046.J27716@digitalkingdom.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" > -----Original Message----- > From: Robin Lee Powell [mailto:rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org] > Sent: 04 August 2001 22:41 > To: lojban@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [lojban] On a number of parts of threads and single threads > disguised as several > > 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.'. If AOLer pc could include the whole thing in his posts it wd be a positive blessing. And what is Eternal September? -- from the name alone, I'd guess a terrorist outfit operating out of Pyongyang.[*] [* And by the same Reasoning, Dien Bien Phu is a Techno Nightclub and Hapax Legomenon a Greek soccer team.] --And. --And.