Statement & apology (was Re: 10 Year Rule)

A 10-year-rule is not a principle. It made sense in 1997. It doesn't make sense now. Here in NJ, there's a 25-year-rule for getting special license plates on an antique car. Great, so cars from 1981 are now antiques...!? I don't know any better way to make a point than the power of a good metaphor. For the record, I think Jay is doing a GREAT job, and more people who might be intimidated by this thread but who agree should speak up and say so. -----Original Message----- From: Zane H. Healy [mailto:healyzh at aracnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:58 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Statement & apology (was Re: 10 Year Rule) At 9:51 AM -0500 8/29/06, Jay West wrote: This didn't even have an appropriate subject line, a lot (most?) of us never saw it. This sounds like an attempt to define a totally different list than this has *EVER* been. If I read this correctly we should avoid speaking of Unix, OpenVMS, Mac OS, and even Amiga OS, and maybe even TOS. That leaves a pretty narrow field. Even I can recognize that older And yes, as you've no doubt figured I feel quite strongly about this subject as do several other members who have been here a very long time. Just because something a fair number of us are either disinterested in, or actively dislike becomes on topic is not a reason to change one of the founding principles of this list. In fact it goes against another founding principle of the list. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |