This is really funny.  Do you all realize how many times we've gone over
this over the past 25 years?
As Bill poignantly explained, maybe instead of trying to establish a
cut-off date, we instead think outside of the box:
If enough people object to a topic, it stops.  Let's call it three
objections.  If three different people reply to a post objecting to it then
whoosh, off it goes into the bit bucket, never to be spoken of again.
Example:
Someone A: Hey, is it OK if I talk about Windows 11?
Someone B: Objection.
Someone C: Objection.
Someone D: Objection.
Someone A: Ok, sorry [bashfully skulks away]
Food for thought.
Sellam
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 8:33 PM Tony Jones via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
  Traffic on the list is so low I'm not seeing the
issue.    I'm also not
 seeing complaints about threads being off topic.    Seems like solution
 seeking a problem.
 On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 8:28 PM Chris via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
 wrote:
   On Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 11:11:27 PM EST,
Fred Cisin via cctalk <
 cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
 I was not disagreeing with you.
 Ok. Wonderful. I guess we've sufficiently established that from
 
 henceforth
  anything dang-old is totally on topic. Any
detractors? :)
 Transcoding as in vcr to mpegs? I wasn't suggesting XP was utterly
 entirely useless. Video editing in a modern sense requires loads of
 processing h.p. to be efficient. And no transcodimg is necessary.
 
 Certainly
  not an expert. But I should think older hardware
would be very very slow.