minor list changes

It would certainly get rid of me, and a fair few others, I suspect. The reasons are simple : 1) The major advantage of a mailing list is that you read it off-line. You can take as long as you need to look things up, take machines apart to check things, asn so (yus, I do do that to answer questions here). I would not want to do that if I was paying for the time (which I would be if it was a web-based forum). 2) None of my machines can run a modern web browser. If you want me to run one, then you can get me a machine, you can get me a house extension to house it, and you can maintain it for as long as I want to use it. I'm quite happy with the machines I've got, thank you. Yes, I'd miss this list, but I think I could live without it... 3) Web-based fora seem to attract a lot more off-topic garbage than mailing lists. I suspect we'd be overrun with XP questions within a week (or less). 4) I can keep an archive on my own machine of postings that interest me (read : apply to machines I'm restoring). That way I can read them at all times (telephone changes are generaly too high for me to dial in during the working day). It's not an emotioanl attraction. I just don't believe that a more modern solution is necessarily superior to that which it claims to replace in all cases -- which is why I use film-based cameras (for all I can see the advantage of digial for, say, press photography), why I use a command-line user interface, why I draw schematics by hand (I'll use a CAD system when I find one that actually _aids_ rather than hinders me), and why I prefre mailing lists to web fora for things like this. -tony