At 2:45 PM -0400 3/12/13, John C Klensin wrote:
I've gotten some feedback that some people thought
I was identifying them as Martians and were offended.
Wow, that is actually pretty funny. Sorry.
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- Original Message -
From: "Stephen Casner"
To: "Noel Chiappa"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:10 PM
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
> >
> > > "Martian" is nice expression.
> >
> > Weren't 'unusual' packets called 'Martians' at some early stage of
Internet
> > work
> From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Spencer Dawkins
>
> At least some of the nerdier nerds were probably thinking "how could *I*
> become a Martian? because that would be so cool!" ...
>
[WEG] followed immediately by a complaint thread on this list asking wh
On 03/13/13 11:10, Stephen Casner allegedly wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>> > Subject: Re: Martians
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>> > "Martian" is nice expression.
>>
>> Weren't 'unusual' packets called 'Martians'
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Martians
>
> > "Martian" is nice expression.
>
> Weren't 'unusual' packets called 'Martians' at some early stage of Internet
> work? It certainly has history in the IETF
On 3/13/13 10:24 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Subject: Re: Martians
> "Martian" is nice expression.
Weren't 'unusual' packets called 'Martians' at some early stage of Internet
work? It certainly has history in the IETF as a term of art, I thi
--On Tuesday, 12 March, 2013 16:21 -0400 Marc Blanchet
wrote:
> I was not offended, but I was in strong disagreement with your
> second comment that by having a co-editor assigned to help, it
> would make these "Martians" second-class citizens in the IETF.
> I completly disagree. Everybody need
> Subject: Re: Martians
> "Martian" is nice expression.
Weren't 'unusual' packets called 'Martians' at some early stage of Internet
work? It certainly has history in the IETF as a term of art, I think that's
it.
Noel
Hi,
"Martian” is nice expression.
Top level Hungarian physicists working in various aspects of nuclear
physics in the early forties in the States were called Martians as they
used a funny language amongst themselves, i.e. Hungarian. This group
includes John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, Ede Teller a
On 3/12/2013 1:45 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
In any event, I've gotten some feedback that some people thought
I was identifying them as Martians and were offended. No
offense was intended and I used the "Martian" terminology
precisely to avoid that possibility. I obviously failed and
apologize
I didn't know we had a leader. I though we were an autonomous collective!
Seriously though, editing for language is something we could take off the
shoulders of technical editors at least part of the time.
I'd want for them (and maybe chairs+ADs) to be the ones using such a
resource, should it exi
Oh, I forgot: NOW TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER !!
:D
On 3/12/13 5:48 PM, Carlos M. Martinez wrote:
> I wasn't offended either, but I can see how some people might have felt.
>
> Moving on, what I do believe is that many i-d's could benefit from a
> review by a linguist.
>
> This role, IMO, is differe
I wasn't offended either, but I can see how some people might have felt.
Moving on, what I do believe is that many i-d's could benefit from a
review by a linguist.
This role, IMO, is different from the role of an editor. The linguist
doesn't need to have any technical background. He is more like
Le 2013-03-12 à 14:45, John C Klensin a écrit :
> Hi
>
> At last night's plenary, I raised some related issues about the
> difficulties posed by the interactions between current systems
> for developing and editing documents working groups through the
> approval and publication processes and th
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