Re: A proposed solution to the problem of space flight

2009-04-01 Thread John Williams
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:07 PM, hkhenson hkhen...@rogers.com wrote: The laser stage does require a substantial amount of power, 4-5 GW (equal to a ton of TNT per second). You missed your posting time by 3 hours, 53 minutes. ___

Re: A proposed solution to the problem of space flight

2009-04-01 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Keith wrote: I don't know who on this list is up to understanding the technical parts . . . . I think I am. Or I was. Probably now I switched from being one of the good guys (working in the space industry) to become one evil minion (working in the oil industry) :-) The root problem is the

Is this thing on?

2009-04-01 Thread Nick Arnett
I woke up this morning wondering if moving the Brin-L list to Bluehost has somehow killed it... because I realized that I'm not getting any messages, only digests. This is weird. I just double-checked everything and there's no reason I can see that would prevent me from getting the mail. I'd ask

Re: Is this thing on?

2009-04-01 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Nick Arnett moderated: I woke up this morning wondering if moving the Brin-L list to Bluehost has somehow killed it... because I realized that I'm not getting any messages, only digests.  This is weird. The move was transparent to me - as far as receiving goes. OTOH, it seems that the list

Re: Is this thing on?

2009-04-01 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Alberto Monteiro albm...@centroin.com.brwrote: You can just send one message to the list and add in the BCC: field a list of subscribers. Then ask if anyone received it just once. As list-overlord you have this list, don't you? Ah, I actually received this,

Weekly Chat Reminder

2009-04-01 Thread William T Goodall
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over ten 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 regulars over

Re: A proposed solution to the problem of space flight

2009-04-01 Thread hkhenson
At 11:00 AM 4/1/2009, John Williams wrote: Keith wrote: I don't know who on this list is up to understanding the technical parts . . . . I think I am. Or I was. Probably now I switched from being one of the good guys (working in the space industry) to become one evil minion (working in the

Re: Is this thing on?

2009-04-01 Thread Doug Pensinger
Alberto wrote: The move was transparent to me - as far as receiving goes. OTOH, it seems that the list now encourages html-e-mail, and this is an evil thing that should be eradicated. Why is it evil, out of curiosity? Doug ___

Why not HTML email

2009-04-01 Thread Euan Ritchie
Reasons not to use HTML email... http://www1.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Why not HTML email

2009-04-01 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:17 PM Wednesday 4/1/2009, Euan Ritchie wrote: Reasons not to use HTML email... http://www1.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm 3. You have no other way to access the character set you require to communicate with someone using another language*, and yet you wish to write that