Weekly Chat Reminder

2007-05-16 Thread William T Goodall
As Steve said, The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of

Weekly Chat Reminder

2007-05-16 Thread jon louis mann
i clicked on the link and got this, then i was disconnected... could it be because i have a mac? jlm Welcome to the brin-l chat Mush! Running on a new faster server! You will have to create your name/password again. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] about admin issues.

Re: Weekly Chat Reminder

2007-05-16 Thread William T Goodall
On 16 May 2007, at 21:27, jon louis mann wrote: i clicked on the link and got this, then i was disconnected... could it be because i have a mac? No. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ I wish

Re: Political Dementia

2007-05-16 Thread Deborah Harrell
jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped all but: by the way; what is maru? IIRC, Rob wrote a nice post about that when I was a List newbie and asked the same thing; I won't be anywhere near as thorough, but, in short: Maru is part of a Japanese ship's name, as in 'Kobayashi Maru.'

Re: Political Dementia

2007-05-16 Thread Max Battcher
On 5/16/07, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped all but: by the way; what is maru? IIRC, Rob wrote a nice post about that when I was a List newbie and asked the same thing; I won't be anywhere near as thorough, but, in short: Maru

Re: Re Cost of conservation

2007-05-16 Thread Deborah Harrell
I have only a few minutes, so can't reply fully, but I'm going to call you on these, Dan: DDT has been discussed here previously, and net-impregnation has been cited as cost-effective and reasonably safe (I either posted or re-posted a WHO site on that months ago). But I think that Charlie

Re: Political Dementia

2007-05-16 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:16 PM Wednesday 5/16/2007, Max Battcher wrote: On 5/16/07, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped all but: by the way; what is maru? IIRC, Rob wrote a nice post about that when I was a List newbie and asked the same thing; I

Political Dementia

2007-05-16 Thread jon louis mann
Maru is part of a Japanese ship's name, as in 'Kobayashi Maru.' On-List, it's used as part of a post signature title, and usually relates to the content of the post, with humor, silliness or even seriousness value-added. Debbi Helpful Not Meddlesome Maru ;) thanks debbie, i vaguely

RE: Re Cost of conservation

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Minette
Since I was out of pocket for a bit, I thought I might let this lie instead of responding late. But, since Dr. Harrell has brought this up, I decided to respond. See, you don't get it. I'll try to explain more clearly: There is *already* resistance. There wasn't, but in any area which once