1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
5:29 p.m.
What pisses me off is when stuff like 120v mains hotdog cookers get
mentioned in one topic and it turns into its own. Everyone on this list
should know better than to turn that into a thread.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 6:17 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: A tree to grow
argument about the
Tony wrote....
you when
To be honest, I didn't much care for the 10
year rule,
In that case, I sure would have appreciated more input from the definition was being discussed. Was there any
reason you didn't
provide some help to come up with something better than the 10 year
rule if you didn't care that much for it? Help from you would have
been awesome! But I am glad to hear that yet another person
finds the 10 year
rule problematic.
Oh for %deity's sake.... There are 2 reasons why I didn't
suggest an alternative
1) As I've said at least twice, the original thread didn't 'register'
with me. Rememebr I'm one of the people who didn't even
realise the 10 year rule was no more.
2) Even if I don't much care for something, it doesn't mean I
can necessarily come up with something better (for example, I
don't much care for Windwos, I don't think I could write a
replacement).
> I am seriously considering unsubscribing over this. Not
because of
> the noise on the list. Not because I have
any particular
love of the
10-year-rule (or any other date-related rule). But because I now
have no idea what this list is actually supposed to be talking
about. And there seems little point in remaining on such a list.
So your reason for unsubbing would be because you don't understand
what this list is talking about? Sure, there's some finer details
I've had far too many problems in my life caused by ambiguous
definitions, criteria, and so on. Maybe it comes from
spending too much time working with devices that do have
precisely-defined rules, but I will admit to liking such
rules. That's not to say I don't also enjoy finding obscure
borderline cases :-)
More seriously, you may think you know what a classic
computer is. I may think I know what one is. And most of the
time we'll agree. But I am woried about an almighty flamefest
when you say something is off-topic (as is your right as list
owner), the poster insists the machine _is_ a classic, and
various members take sides. With no clear definition of
classic, that 'discussion' could run and run.
and probably the definition needs tweaking. But I
seriously
doubt that
people (and you) honestly don't know what
this list is
about. I'm sure
I and
Oh, I know plenty of machines that _I_ think are classies. I
think most list members would agree with me in every case.
But that's a far cry from having a definition of classic computer.
-tony