17 Jan
2003
17 Jan
'03
12:34 p.m.
James Rice sez...
Actually I've recently considered unsubscribing. I really don't care
for DEC's, big iron or mini's, no disrespect to those who do collect
them, but I no longer have the time to wade through all of the traffic.
I would really like to split the list into the "big iron" side and
"micro/workstation" side. I'm on some lists run out of the Low End Mac
site and really appreciate how Dan has divided his list by machine class
and topic.
I've just started actively reading the list again after a few months out,
and have no problems filtering -- I guess my main comment would be,
"please use a filterable subject" -- at least filterable by humans.
For example, if it doesn't have "pdp", or "dec" in the title, I
just
file it. Dead simple. Perhaps we could agree that the first word or
two in the subject line would be the filter keyword. for example:
Electronics: how do I unsolder a dead 2N2222?
PDP: how has PDP-12's?
PC: I need to fix my C64 disk drive...
General: introduction
etc...
???
Cheers,
-RK
James
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Yea, that's a for-sure assessment. If this
is the case, then perhaps
what's considered "Off Topic" needs to be severely revisited. I'm all
for
things CC related, but where do you draw the line? And I kind of figured
that the electronics classes might draw it's own brand of off-topicisms.
One can see a siderail into microcontrollers (they are computing devices,
and they are over 10 years old). Does everyone else want to read about
them? Or just "real" classic computers?
My thinking it was more out of consideration for others than segration
because y'all who don't subscribe are no longer good enough.
--John
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Jay West
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 16:57
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: About Electronics Questions
And while we're about it, let's also have
IBM-maingrams(a)classicmp.org (so those who don't have room for such a
machine don't have to read about them)
Minis(a)classiccmp.org (so the home-computer enthusiasts don't have to
read about PDP11s)
PCs(a)classiccmp.org (so those who believe that no IBM clone is ever
'classic' don't get bothered with messages about them)
Cleaning-plastic(a)classiccmp.org
Metalwork(a)classiccmp.org (for people who want to make new mechanical
parts for their printers and disk drives)
Wow, I've never seen my sarcasm meter quite so pegged. I
think it's broken
now due to overload *GRIN*
Jay West
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