Re: Accessing archives for Poll By Email No. 30

Never mind, John!  I looked around this evening and found them saved in a
sleeve of the old battered notebook.  Apparently I wasn't as negligent as I
thought.  I had always thought I could get them from the archives, and now I
know better.

No grumbling :)

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Accessing archives for Poll By Email No. 30


> Sally Caves scripsit:
>
> > Oh, easy!  Thanks, John.  Does it go back any further in time than
September
> > 1998, she asked wistfully.
>
> Alas, there is a big gap between 1994 and 1998 in terms of publicly
> available archives.  I keep meaning to post my private archives (which are
> somewhat damaged, but still have a lot of content), but I never get
> around to it.
>
> > March of 1998 with three different registers of Teonaht (how to ask
politely
> > and impolitely for change for tenpence for the subway)--all now lost
because
> > of several computer overhauls over the years.   Sigh.
>
> Oh, very well, grumble grumble.
>
> --
> John Cowan <jcowan@...> www.ccil.org/~cowan
www.reutershealth.com
> Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of
> resources is the purpose of markets.  Efficiency is a byproduct of market
> systems, not their goal.  The reasons markets work are not because users
> have embraced efficiency but because markets are the best place to allow
> users to maximize their preferences, and very often their preferences are
> not for conservation of cheap resources.  --Clay Shirkey
>
>