Legitimacy of the Ten Year Rule.

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Hans Franke wrote: The original intent of the 10 year rule has been lost upon the more recent members of the list. Bill Whitson created the Ten Year Rule to prevent this forum from becoming just another PC discussion group. He wanted the discussion to stay generally on the topic of discussing old computers. So by making the charter preclude discussion of computers under 10 years old, he hoped to avoid people fielding boring questions that are better asked elsewhere, in forums that are specifically catered to those particular needs. Since there was no specific forum for discussing old computers that wasn't susceptible to spam and noise (i.e. alt.folklore.computers doesn't qualify) he wanted to create one where people would be required to take their contemporary junk elsewhere. I don't think the intent of the rule was ever to totally and unequivocally deny discussions of interesting contemporary stuff, or to disallow asking the occasional emergency help question for PC or Mac related stuff (I'm very glad for that because this is the smartest group of people I know to exist on the planet and I have taken advantage of this fact by fielding the occasional modern day PC question when I needed a quick answer). So, I know it would be futile to hope this permanently recurring thread would stop recurring, but if everyone would just keep this in mind, and we would finally have a FAQ that would be required reading to all new-comers that explains this before they are allowed to post, then I think we could finally put this issue to rest...permanently. Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Always being hassled by the man. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 01/15/99]