Age cutoff, was: Recommendations for operating system

The audience at vintage-computer.com seems to be a bit different than the audience of this list. This list is far more 'hardcore.' There is a much wider variety of hardware being discussed and there is a lot more big iron represented. That being said, the less 'hardcore' forums are more accessible to the rest of the population. Both places have noise problems. On the web forums it is generally a 'less professional' audience and the level of knowledge is not as deep. They also tend to go off into the tulips quite a bit, and I'm not talking about DEC Ethernet cards. Here on the cctalk list the off-topic discussion seems to arise from people trying to be overly pedantic and showing off their hardcore eliteness. Yes, I feel inferior because I'm interested in old 8/16 bitters and I don't build my own CPUs from raw sand. ;-) Btw, I like the email/text nature of this list better. It serves as a higher barrier to entry.