Age cutoff, was: Recommendations for operating system

distant past to get younger people interested in the hobby. Having a drop dead cutoff at the first Intel 80x86 is only going to kill new blood from joining because that is all they have ever used at this point. If you start collecting 286/386 machines and join this list to talk about them the older topics will sooner or later spark interest in something older and different. Keeping 286/386 topics off the list will just keep people away who eventually might have started collecting the older items they knew nothing about at the time they joined. Why bother preserving anything when this list and the knowledge contained here is just going to vanish after the last pre-Intel collector dies. A serious problem indeed. My personal opinion is that classiccmp's format itself of using a plain email list is a big part of the obstacle our hobby will soon face, re: our breed becoming extinct, if we're already on the endangered list. For the most part I strongly prefer the simple email list, and I think most people here agree. But communities like the web forum at www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum and the group blog at http://community.livejournal.com/vintagecomputer/ are growing faster than classiccmp, at least to my perception. Why?