10 Dec
2006
10 Dec
'06
1:06 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
I think the answer is to unsubscribe yourself from
cctech and subscribe to cctalk. Posting is nearly
realtime. I for one an not afraid of unmoderated
lists.
Furthermore, I can't see how the cctech list is that helpful - surely if
you remove the off-topic posts you lose a lot of useful-but-borderline
stuff? You certainly lose a lot of the interesting discussions.
As I've said before, there are people on this list who have been around
a lot longer than I have, who have some really interesting things to
tell about stuff that isn't necessarily "on-topic" but provides a lot of
context to the on-topic discussions. Like 110v hot-dog cookers.
I'd hate for this list to be as dry and rigidly topic-focused as (say)
the Debian lists. They can be so narrow as to be almost worthless.
Gordon.