On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:49 -0600, Jay West wrote:
<snip>
am guilty of not "moaning" nearly enough. So
Gordon, my apologies in
advance, but you're going to see a definite increase in my "moaning"
if
people continue to get off-topic. I have two tools to use in that
effort -
public and/or private reminders to steer things back, and suspensions
of
listmembers from the list. I'd vastly prefer to use the former.
...[snip]... >We've had a lengthy spiel about what kind of ISA card
you can
use to bring a PC-XT up to 640k, with barely a murmur about how on-
or
off-topic it might be.
I suspect there was no murmer about it because it's pretty clearly
on-topic.
It's not my own personal cup of tea, but that doesn't matter in my
treatment
of it.
There is no bloody way that LIM EMS cards are on-topic for any reason
that they're more than ten years old!
I've really enjoyed a lot of the discussions we've all had on the list,
but lately it seems to be turning from Classic Computing to "Jay's
Modern PC and Commodore PET" list - granted, a PET is a classic, but
there seems to be no room for discussion of anything else.
Gordon.