Re: CHAT: More enter-bringings

* Robert Hailman (robert@apexwood.com) [000301 23:33]:
> "Jesse S. Bangs" wrote:
> >
> > Well, Robert got a warm enough welcome, so I figured I'd de-lurk and
> > introduce myself as well. [..]
>
> Hey, Jesse. The diacritics did to through, at least in my case. A few
> years ago? Is this one of those 10 year old lists with like 6000
> members, but only 3 or 4 post regularly? I'm signed up to one of those.
> It's like I'm watching a rather dry conversation between a few people
> who don't really like eachother.
Yep, the list is old, and well, some post *a lot* more than others,
but AFAIK there's only a couple hundred linguaholics receiving it.
So far there's 61 megabytes of archives in my experimental little search
engine and that only covers most of 98-99 so far... (yes I'll add more,
eventually, but sysadmining part time now [and getting paid! oooh]).

Some people are always here, and some are on-again-off-again, some days
there are a hundred new mails from the list and others there's zilch.
All in all quite normal I guess.

The `wars' are usually just a quick round of pot-shots, but don't diz
people's religion or lack of it, and don't push your own. Fire tends to
go out when there's noone blowing at it.

Do try to use the `topics' (CHAT, USAGE, THEORY, those are the official
ones that ought to be used more often :) ) and for my sake pleeeease
mark anecdotes about some fun fact of english with USAGE? The first ten
might be cute and interesting but I tend to get impatient after two
hundred of the things and that's not good for my acid-levels and I'm
trying to hold off the ulcer until I'm at least thirty so pleeease?

As for interesting parts of the day/night there's the american shift,
the littler european shift, and then there are a few living in weird
places like down under or computer labs (daylight is highly overrated I
say).

To sum it up, nothing special but it sure beats tv...


t. (when *is* the the 10-year anniversary and should we cook up
something to properly celebrate it?)