29 Aug
2006
29 Aug
'06
5:07 p.m.
"The
definition of On Topic", Jan 2005
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2005-January/057970.html
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
Probably CP/M is off-topic too... After all CP/M -> MS-DOS -> Windows.
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
There have been machines that I actively dislike that were on-topic from
the day this list was founded. Doesn't bother me, I just ignore messages
about them (I learnt that lesson in my first week of membership, OK...)
-tony