{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4706", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 4706, "subject": "sentient trees yes, usage no", "messages": 8, "voices": 6, "first": "2006-09-01T19:30:58+00:00", "last": "2006-09-03T02:41:20+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<9c6b022b0609011230v63cc25bdg79c98ffcf0c108bf@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar", "address": "ranjit at moonmilk.com" }, "date": "2006-09-01T19:30:58+00:00", "subject": "(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Here's the official word from the list owner (me!) --\n\nTalking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD\nTalking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED\nTalking about email formatting: STRONGLY DISCOURAGED\n\n\"Interleaving\": ENCOURAGED\nTop-posting: MILDLY DISCOURAGED\nComplaining about top-posting: STRONGLY DISCOURAGED\nQuoting the minimum necessary from previous posts to make your reply\nintelligible: STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.\n\nEXCESSIVE USE of CAPITAL LETTERS: discouraged. Sorry.\n\n- ranjit" } ] }, { "message_id": "<1f7617370609011242q52698494q567c37dabf280ed6@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "danldo at gmail.com" }, "date": "2006-09-01T19:42:41+00:00", "subject": "(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no", "in_reply_to": "<9c6b022b0609011230v63cc25bdg79c98ffcf0c108bf@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Ranjit,\n\nThank you for clarifying. I wish you'd jump in more often!" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant\n-----\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer\nhttp://www.danehyoakes.com\nI've got a piece of braaaaain lodge in me heeead!!!" } ] }, { "message_id": "<44F91AC8.4090101@io.com>", "from": { "name": "Jeff Wilson", "address": "jwilson at io.com" }, "date": "2006-09-02T05:46:48+00:00", "subject": "(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no", "in_reply_to": "<9c6b022b0609011230v63cc25bdg79c98ffcf0c108bf@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:\nTalking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD\nTalking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Truly separable?\n\n\nJeff" } ] }, { "message_id": "<9069F649-FD23-4F11-89F2-7D45E552C079@gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Matthew King", "address": "automatthew at gmail.com" }, "date": "2006-09-02T16:37:16+00:00", "subject": "(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no", "in_reply_to": "<44F91AC8.4090101@io.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Sep 2, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:\nRanjit Bhatnagar wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD\nTalking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Truly separable?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Not when we're discussing Able's narration, or that of the Horn twin \nwho contributed to Return to the Whorl.\n\nmatthew" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Bob Miller", "address": "bob_bageera at hotmail.com" }, "date": "2006-09-02T20:39:01+00:00", "subject": "(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no", "in_reply_to": "<44F91AC8.4090101@io.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Speaking of literature and speaking of language usage are topics that can \nnot be separated. Communication requires reasonable language use." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:\nTalking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD\nTalking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Truly separable?\n\n\nJeff" } ] }, { "message_id": "<9c6b022b0609021348l56032252xb3d21de80270fd2a@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Ranjit Bhatnagar", "address": "ranjit at moonmilk.com" }, "date": "2006-09-02T20:48:50+00:00", "subject": "(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Bom Miller wrote:\nSpeaking of literature and speaking of language usage are topics that can\nnot be separated. Communication requires reasonable language use." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Look, just think of these as like Asimov's three laws of robotics.\nOnly there's just two of them that I'm concerned with here, but bear\nwith me:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I wrote:\n\n > Talking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD\n > Talking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED..." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "....except where such discouragement would conflict with the First Law.\n\nAnd now for a new rule:\nNitpicking the rules - AW, WHAT THE HECK. GO FOR IT.\n\n- ranjit" } ] }, { "message_id": "<1f7617370609021836i7f372a78h142dbc508979a3f7@mail.gmail.com>", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "danldo at gmail.com" }, "date": "2006-09-03T01:36:27+00:00", "subject": "(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no", "in_reply_to": "<9c6b022b0609021348l56032252xb3d21de80270fd2a@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 9/2/06, Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote:\nAnd now for a new rule:\nNitpicking the rules - AW, WHAT THE HECK. GO FOR IT." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I don't think that's a good idea, Yogi. The Ranger won't\nlike it." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant\n-----\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer\nhttp://www.danehyoakes.com\nI've got a piece of braaaaain lodge in me heeead!!!" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "b sharp", "address": "bsharporflat at hotmail.com" }, "date": "2006-09-03T02:41:20+00:00", "subject": "(urth) sentient trees yes, usage no", "in_reply_to": "<1f7617370609021836i7f372a78h142dbc508979a3f7@mail.gmail.com>", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Ranjit wrote:\nTalking about the works of Gene Wolfe: GOOD\nTalking about matters of English usage: DISCOURAGED..." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "....except where such discouragement would conflict with the First Law." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "And now for a new rule:\nNitpicking the rules - AW, WHAT THE HECK. GO FOR IT." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "High praise to Ranjit for just the right amount of authority and \nself-deprecation :-)\n\n-bsharp" } ] } ] }