8 May
2002
8 May
'02
4:04 p.m.
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Jay West wrote:
Because Sellam (and another person or two) have
publicly posted that certain
members of the list have left "because the list is so terrible now", I was
prompted to check the list database to see if that was true. It turns out
that those posts were somewhat irresponsible and uninformed.
I would point out that at least some of the people that supposedly
(according to recent posts) have left *ARE* in fact still subscribed. Some
of them I have corresponded with fairly recently, at the email address the
list shows as subscribed. I must suspect that they choose to be silent.
Look, I don't know if the people re-subscribed and are now lurking. In
the case of Chuck and Andrew, I know for a fact (because I remember) that
they publicly stated the list had gotten out of control and they were
unsubscribing.
I'm not making this up to win points for my argument, as you seem to
imply. I really don't care either way. The list DOES suck right now,
that much is a fact, but I'm still using it because it at least is still
called "Classic Computers".
And why are you posting a flame inducing message after you just admonished
a bunch of people for the very same thing? This is something that would
have been better left in private mail, or not broached at all.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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