[Buddha-l] Anniversaries

[donna Bair-Mundy]

Aloha,
Regarding:
" How many are there today? Judging by the blankness (shunya) of buddha-l 
today,  one suspects the number might be around five: the five people who 
work on alternative digital codings."

   I suspect there are, in fact, more than 5 of us.  And not all of us 
spend our days working out unicode workarounds for Tibetan, or Sanskrit, 
or other alphabets.

   Some of us, like myself, have been around for years and get much 
enjoyment from Buddha-l during periods when activities pick up.  I'm 
always learning something new.

                    	Have a safe and joyful day,

 			donna Bair-Mundy, Ph.D.
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Jo wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:37:30 -0700
> From: Jo <jkirk at spro.net>
> Reply-To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> To: 'Buddhist discussion forum' <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
> Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Anniversaries
> 
> Richard's history of these various lists allows as how at one time there
> were lots of subscribers:
>
> "In early communications about the new Buddhist Academic Discussion Forum, I
> predicted to Jim Cocks that subscriptions to the academic forum would
> probably level off at around thirty to forty subscribers. In fact, it soon
> reached a level of several hundred, and the number of subscribers
> consistently stayed around the 850 figure until 2005. It has never been an
> exclusively academic forum. In fact, the lack of substantial difference
> between buddha-l and buddhist, aside from the fact that one forum was
> moderated and the other was not, led me to combine the two lists into the
> one moderated forum in autumn 2001."
>
> Ok, so until 2005 there were 850.
> After that, nothing said about how many subscribers were left after 2005,
> nor about how many there are today.
> How many are there today?
> Judging by the blankness (shunya) of buddha-l today,  one suspects the
> number might be around five: the five people who work on alternative digital
> codings.  Most probably because that topic provoked the largest exchange of
> the past six months, and has nothing to do with anything except coding
> talents and preferences.
>
> Joanna Kirkpatrick
> www.artsricksha.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com
> [mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Richard Hayes
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 3:02 PM
> To: Buddhist discussion forum
> Subject: [Buddha-l] Anniversaries
>
> As 2011 draws to a close, buddha-l celebrates the twentieth anniversary of
> its founding in the autumn of 1991, and the tenth anniversary of the
> "buddhist" and "buddha-l" lists being collapsed into a single list that
> incorporates the vices of both and the virtues of neither. Hardly a days
> goes by that I don't think it's time for buddha-l to become impermanent, but
> it keeps sluggishly plodding along.
>
> For those of you who have forgotten the history of buddha-l (or its
> predecessor, buddhist at jpntohok), an idiosyncratic account of the early days
> is to be found on an old website that also should be dead by now but keeps
> limping along like a vampire in search of a stake to be driven through its
> heart:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~dayamati/history.html
>
> All the merry crew of elves who sleep in the control room of buddha-l wish
> all you subscribers a pleasant and prosperous 2012. May you all get a life.
>
> Richard
>
>
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