Chuck wrote.....
Jay, would you mind if I took the subject back
O[n]T[opic]?
Granted! Pete & Andrew and yourself do make a case {which I still
don't
totally buy, but I can see the point partially}. However, lets please keep
it on a tight reign and not delve too deeply into video stuff. Knowing this
crowd, if I give carte blanche to LVrom discussion, then we'll get into a
long discussion of video encoding. Then camera resolution will come up. Then
pretty soon people will be arguing that we can talk about cars because
cameras can take pictures of cars. Next will be formulation of asphalt. Not
gonna happen. So sure, put LVrom back on topic... but lets not wander very
far with it.
Chuck - by the way - thanks for both asking and making a cogent case.
Gordon wrote....
Do you know what? I think I've finally reached my
"It's off-topic"
saturation point. Not the amount of off-topic content, but the amount of
moaning about things being off-topic.
Yes, I counted to 10 before responding to
this, and it was a rather painful
10 seconds. The more watered-down/redacted version follows:
Last I checked, I was not moaning - I was moderating; and I will continue to
do so to the best of my abilities and using my best judgement to keep things
on-topic. I think that a very large percentage of the list agrees with most
of my moderation choices. No one will be 100% in agreement with them so I
won't try (a moderator who attempts to please 100% of the people will please
none). In my own opinion and in the opinions many have expressed to me - I
am guilty of not "moaning" nearly enough. So Gordon, my apologies in
advance, but you're going to see a definite increase in my "moaning" if
people continue to get off-topic. I have two tools to use in that effort -
public and/or private reminders to steer things back, and suspensions of
listmembers from the list. I'd vastly prefer to use the former.
...[snip]... >We've had a lengthy spiel about what kind of ISA card you can
use to bring a PC-XT up to 640k, with barely a murmur about how on- or
off-topic it might be.
I suspect there was no murmer about it because it's pretty clearly on-topic.
It's not my own personal cup of tea, but that doesn't matter in my treatment
of it.
Best regards,
Jay West