13 Feb
2014
13 Feb
'14
5:30 a.m.
I for one
am glad that the 98 topic came up whether it is on or off
topic.
I for one am NOT glad the 98 topic came up. It is off topic for
this list, and is generating far too much off topic activity.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
I just delete stuff I am not interested in from my email box.
That doesn't work for me. It seems to me that it doesn't work for most
people but it can take a while before some come to this conclusion.
The method I use is to sign up to mailing lists that discuss topics I am
interested in and not to try to change them to discuss something the
existing subscribers didn't previously discuss.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
13 Feb
13 Feb
7:30 a.m.
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Thank you, Peter.
Hear, hear! This is something that more new subscribers should take to
heart. On this list, though, there are too many enablers who (apparently)
just like the sound of their own voices and will respond to anything. I
filter out members who persist in off-topic posts, but the constant
follow-ups render that less effective.
If you want to talk about Windows, find an APPROPRIATE list.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
Seems like a
lot of people are interested.
It doesn't seem that way to me. I have seen very little support expressed
for making the subject of windows and commodity PCs on-topic. I just delete
stuff I am not interested in from my email box.
That doesn't work for me. It seems to me that it doesn't work for most
people but it can take a while before some come to this conclusion.
The method I use is to sign up to mailing lists that discuss topics I am
interested in and not to try to change them to discuss something the
existing subscribers didn't previously discuss. 
14 Feb
14 Feb
10:36 a.m.
On 02/13/2014 06:30 AM, Mike Loewen wrote:
If you want to talk about Windows, find an
APPROPRIATE list.
Windows '95 and newer, perhaps. I'm not sure if there's a more appropriate
place to discuss versions older than that, though? Although 3.x was popular
and derided in its day, surely it's no more off-topic than questions about
any other GUI of a similar timeframe, and if in-depth knowledge of a
20-something year old environment is going to be anywhere, it's perhaps
likely to be here?
I wouldn't want this to be a PC-centric list*, but I think at the same time
there's a tendency to forget just how old some of the PC-related software
and hardware is now getting (I agonized for a bit over posting XT-related
questions, but then I got to thinking that they're systems containing
masses of TTL ICs and running a clunky text-mode CLI - in other words,
really no different to any other platform of the time).
* and at least it is a list, and not a newsgroup, so if things did get out
of hand Something Could Be Done :-)
(Does anyone read every message on the list? I'm > 25,000 messages behind,
there's no way I can keep up with the traffic. In other words, skipping
over threads is routine, so if 0.00x% of list activity is about Windows,
it's no big deal to me)
cheers
Jules
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