From cowan@ccil.org Sat Aug 04 19:52:52 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 5 Aug 2001 02:52:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 7042 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2001 02:52:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Aug 2001 02:52:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2001 02:52:51 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15TE2I-0008Qg-00; Sat, 04 Aug 2001 22:53:02 -0400 Subject: Re: CHAT: RE: [lojban] On a number of parts of threads and single threads disguised as several In-Reply-To: from And Rosta at "Aug 5, 2001 01:56:50 am" To: And Rosta Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 22:53:02 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan And Rosta scripsit: > And what is Eternal September? -- from the name alone, I'd guess a > terrorist outfit operating out of Pyongyang.[*] September 1993, aka "The September That Never Ended". Before 1993, there was a tendency for the 'Net to be flooded with newbies every September, as first-year college students gained access to it for the first time, and had to be slowly educated by the regulars. But after September 1993, when AOL users got direct access to Usenet, the sheer number of newbies overwhelmed the ability of the regulars to handle them. Since then, of course, newbies can and do arrive at any season in ever-increasing floods. > [* And by the same Reasoning, Dien Bien Phu is a Techno Nightclub and > Hapax Legomenon a Greek soccer team.] "I still remember that Emphyteusis[1] is not a disease, nor Stillicide[2] a crime." [1] A form of land tenure common in the late Roman Empire, involving the payment of a fixed rent over a 30-year or more term. [2] The right to collect the water that drips off your neighbor's roof onto your own land: also a Roman Law term. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter