Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> i18n@... wrote:
> There is
> > ample public record of it.
>
> You mean, I should google "Barry" or "i18n" and I'll learn of your
> professional history?

There are many ways to skin a cat.

>
>
> When you say something about writing systems, I'll know whether you have
> worthwhile things to say about writing systems.

You mean you judge everybody's worth in advance of what they say? That
must make life on the internet where you don't know everyone seem pretty
scary huh?

Why don't you just go ahead and killfile me if I am so unworthy of your
time?

>
> When you want to talk about computers, go there. When you want to talk
> about writing systems, come here. It doesn't seem that complicated.

To you maybe - but to many others, the facts of the 20th century that
computers and writing systems are intermingled now seems quite obvious.

Just as you seem to have a long term interest in the origin of parchment
and find it worth discussing here, others have similar and related
interests. And just as parchment is a tool to enable the use of writing
systems, originating in a long ago era, so are computers a tool enabling
the use of writing systems originating in a more recent era.

Peter, no one here objects to topics such as the origin of parchment
that interest you.

What people object to is your continued insistence that computers and
writing systems as they relate to each other are off-topic, and your
flaming people for introducing such topics, when you introduce
structurally equivalent topics yourself.

If you don't like this list, you are welcome to leave at anytime. And if
there are some people here you respect enough to take to a list only for
the group of you and they, then go ahead and make a private and maybe
even secret list. Then you can be the moderator and nothing will ever
get discussed that you don't approve of!

In the meantime, since you are the only one who complains about this
list, maybe you can consider finding other ways to manage your
discomfort with it. I have suggested a few - perhaps your trusted
colleagues can provide others.

Best,

Barry <-- who figures that one day he and Peter will meet and become
best friends and laugh about this endlessly :)