18 Nov
2015
18 Nov
'15
2:11 a.m.
On 2015-11-17 21:32, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
Quite honestly, if you ask me, it didn't work in the good old days either.
Johnny
Yes, they were two separate lists at one point,
then someone decided
to start forwarding messages between the two, and other people started
posting replies to the wrong list. All of the replies to the post
about the collection being given away was from cctalk, but the actual
message was posted on cctech. You can't effectively filter out the
crap from the other list because the headers being sent through aren't
always right. I lost the original collection msg because my filter
thought it had been sent from cctalk and forwarded to cctech.
There was a discussion about getting rid of one or the other list.
I wish someone would just DO IT.
If I recall correctly (unrefreshed dynamic wetware RAM), it was not two
separate lists. CCTECH was a subset of CCTALK. CCTECH was to be
ON-topic ONLY, with CCTALK quite a bit looser, to be able to devolve
into determining location from ham radio callsigns, etc. Everything
posted to CCTECH was echoed on CCTALK. A participant needed only to
subscribe to one list, depending on how tolerant they wanted to be about
off-topic tangents.
Then there was a horrible crash. It was neither Y2K, nor winter
solctice 2012, but the entire universe came to an end, and there was NO
list traffic at all! Heroic efforts were made, and the list[s] were
brought back to life!
But nobody could manage to successfully replicate the previous
configuration, and all the king's horsemen and all the king's men could
not put it back together again. Posts to CCTECH did get forwarded to
CCTALK, and posts to CCTALK that were deemed to be ON-topic did get
forwarded to CCTECH, and those foolish enough to be subscribed to both
lists did get two copies. But, then the posts to CCTALK that were
deemed worthy to be copied by CCTECH also got automagically forwarded
back to CCTALK. When people posted to both lists, or replied to a post
to both lists, or didn't pay attention to what they were doing, there
were duplicates, and duplicates of duplicates, and sometimes duplicates
of duplicates of duplicates.
The list management have strived valiantly to repair the system, and
have gotten pretty close, but it may never be quite as it was in the
good ol' days..