On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 06:18:25AM -0800, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: I agree! /P

On 21/11/2018 16:19, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: The original complaints were due to me being on holiday, and some existing hitch with the list configuration which means some posts need to be moderated through to cctalk (though it should have caught up now.) But yes, the two lists are largely identical, though of course non-cc stuff doesn't make it into cctech. Almost anything goes on cctalk as most posts go through automatically anyway. I think if everyone can refrain from posting non-cc stuff (and in this I would include: Queries about modern HW or SW without a direct CC relevance, long threads about character encoding schemes...) then we could go to a single list, but one might have to get used to being jumped on if posting something regarded as off-topic, and perhaps finding oneself moderated if persisting. Lawrence -- Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence at ljw.me.uk Ph +41(0)79 926 1036 http://www.ljw.me.uk

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:59:35AM -0700, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: Me too. I suspect there is a number of people here, who not quite belong to any other place. I am not a great enthusiast of modern computer technology, for example. Other than a fact that I have an equivalent of 1990-ties supercomputer at a hand's reach, mostly thanks to users making pitiful choices requiring more and more power, to run those Mac and PC emulators in Javascript. Not to mention the very affordable used _portable_ (yikes!) supercomputers or as of recently _pocket_ (yay!!) supercomputers (alas, almost unusable because of stupid HW choices offering no security, but I am not sure if it was possible to make better choices). Limiting discussion to only strict cc-related topics will hugely deprive everybody, IMHO. This list should not be only a talk of museum keepers, but in my opinion it should be used to learn from the past and maybe try to do better in a future (if not for learning, I see no purpose to have a museum of any kind). Having a look at past provides me with interesting insights (try asking a casual user about his/her thoughts on pocket supercomputers, and have sad laugh). Speaking of long threads, there was a four or six weeks long thread about terminals, most of which (if not all) I will never be able to touch and so I skipped it all (it was interesting, but I have a ton of things to be read and thus I have to be very selective). No complaints however. Maybe I will one day undust those from my archives. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **

It was decided and announced long ago that cctalk and cctech would once again merge and become the same list. Nope, I still haven't gotten around to it. Yep, it is still going to happen. J