2 Sep
2006
2 Sep
'06
3:54 p.m.
Jay West wrote:
Unfortunately, the above comes across as being windows
bigoted. It most
certainly isn't. My criteria is more what I posted on the list a year
ago. It's kinda like... when I tell non-computer people what kind of
computers I'm interested in. I usually tell them "systems with blinking
lights" because that's the EASY way to say it. In fact, it has nothing
to do with blinking lights. It just so happens that most of the systems
I want HAPPEN (unrelated) to have blinking lights. So, the above looks
like I'm anti-windows, that's not the case. But it is the outward result
of other criteria.
Has anyone else got a rough idea of the number of Windows/modern PC type
topics that have turned up in the last year? My recollection is that they're a
tiny fraction of one percent of total posts - but maybe my brain's blotting
them out :-)
What I'm getting at it that it all seems very self-policing here - do we
actually need *any* kind of rule other than the knowing that it's a classic
computer list? If any stricter rules are going to fall foul of certain
machines, or if the rules will have to constantly change as time goes on, then
why bother providing the list isn't turning into a PC/Windows forum (which
doesn't seem to be the case to me at all)
Let people make up their own mind what's classic and what isn't, and it'll all
sort itself out. Very rarely someone might post something and risk offending a
handful of purists, but to my mind it's better to have that than a strict set
of rules which means that the community might miss out on something
beneficial/interesting once in a while.
So I'd rather come up with a rule that can be
applied
by anyone to get a reasonable determination. That may be impossible, I'm
open to ideas.
I think it is, just as it's impossible to have an unmoderated list that's 100%
on-topic all of the time.
Please take the above as just my own personal
thoughts, and not some
edict from the list admin :)
Sure :)
cheers
Jules
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