From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 17:43:53 MDT
Sylvia: Sorry, your post has a subject (the -digest form) that I don't
generally scan for when following up. As a result, your post of Wednesday was
ignored by me for a while--I find myself unable to read _every_ post on the
list. I happened upon your post as a result of reading someone else's that
triggered another priority selector of my email client; thus the delay.
I do try to respond to threads that have variations of the oroginal subject
line present. I am not sure how to resolve this problem. But I did eventually
respond to your post (today, I think). I hope you read this soon.
As I said in my prior post, I was referring to the Mbuti ("pygmies"), not the
San ("Kalahari bushmen").
BaMbuti are I think about 4' in average height as adults; I seem to rcall that
the San average at least 9 inches more.
Claro?
MMB
"sylvia m." wrote:
>
> >
> > Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:51:37 +0200
> > From: KPJ <kpj@sics.se>
> > Subject: Re: extropians-digest V7 #128
> >
> > It appears as if sylvia m. <max@sentex.net> wrote:
> > |
> > |um... are you referring to the "Kalahari Bushmen" (sorry i don't know how
> > |to reproduce clicks in ascii so i can't refer to them by a correct name)?
> >
> > "/" as in /Xam (San) tribe?
> > "!" as in !Kung tribe?
>
> are these the people the original post was about? i'm wondering if the
> mention of plentiful fruit and hard-to-catch monkeys was a joke that i
> don't get (i am somewhat humour-impaired soemtimes, sorry) or if there
> is some bizarre theory about the origins of these people that i haven't
> heard yet.
--
butler a t comp - lib . o r g
I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
Sometimes I forget.
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