From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 13 13:31:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 13 Aug 2001 20:31:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 54135 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 20:30:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Aug 2001 20:30:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 20:30:32 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15WOM3-0003eD-00 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:30:31 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:30:31 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] New to lojban, any suggestions? Message-ID: <20010813133031.N9477@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <18.10af9bf9.28a99144@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18.10af9bf9.28a99144@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:23:32PM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > The analogy fails precisely because an MS program isn't like a pencil (it's > more like a book but not quite that either, I suppose). Last time I checked, I can legally underline paragraphs in my own book, and then lend it to a friend so he can see the underlined portions. You cannot do that with an MS prgram. Do try to pay attention. > As you say, some people use MS, some don't. Let's let each use what > they want or need to use and try to accomodate them equally (we've > gotten a lot better on that lately, by the way, with Robin -- for all > his puffery -- doing good lead work) and not cast random asparagus on > either side. You're lucky I read this far. 8) Thank you for the compliment. I think. 8) -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/