OT Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: New Sun Microsystems Chip MayUnseat the Circuit Board

[Richard Oliver Snelson]

Well said Cy. I'm tired of people with vendettas wanting to ram them
down our throat with OT:. They should get off the list if they can't
follow the guidelines for it. Rich

Cy Shuster wrote:
> 
> OT's can't be left alone because the purpose of a mailing list is to discuss
> information about one topic.
> 
> It's the same reason that books are sorted by section in a library: fiction
> from non-fiction, etc.  If books are misfiled, the library becomes useless.
> What percentage of OT's would make this list useless: 20%? 40%? 80%?  It's
> just a matter of degree.
> 
> It's time-wasting and troublesome to separate two (or more) dissimilar
> things, especially so when there is a perfect remedy: a separate list for
> each topic, which can be combined by each user according to his wishes.
> This is the convention that allows me, for example, to subscribe to
> Pianotech as well as mailing lists for former employees of cc:Mail and for
> my church.  Even if all these topics were available in a single list, I
> prefer to have them separate so that I can sort them in my inbox, and also
> change my mind and unsubscribe to any individual list.
> 
> Posts about wildly irrelevant topics, such as integrated circuit design in a
> piano list, are in my opinion, noise drowning out signal, in other words,
> contaminants.  When they're simply un-commented copies of press releases, it
> looks just like spam to me.
> 
> It's a mystery to me why you have taken on the mission of getting this IC
> design info to the general public, but there are far better channels than
> this one: comp.sys.sun.announce, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, etc.  And
> it does seem that the NY Times has also stepped up to shoulder some of the
> load.
> 
> I'm glad that there are many different topics that you are interested in,
> and it's kind of you to share that info, but please try to segregate it.  I
> thought you had already volunteered to start your own list?  I saw many
> people asking to subscribe (by posting here, alas, rather than individual
> email).
> 
> Now, let me give you some vital information about the special purine
> limitiations in the diet of Dalmations, while Terry chimes in with the
> latest breakthroughs in geology...
> 
> --Cy--
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hechler Family" <dahechler@charter.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:06 AM
> Subject: Re: OT Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: New Sun Microsystems Chip May
> Unseat the Circuit Board
> 
> > Greg - thanks for the info.
> >
> > Keith and others
> >
> > THIS LIST IS FICKLE.
> >
> > WHY CAN'T OT"s BE LEFT ALONE UNLESS THERE ARE COMMENTS ABOUT INFO. I WAS
> > PUTTING OUT INFO THAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE AWARE OF. NOW I'M FORCED TO
> > START MY OWN LIST - WHICH TOTALLY DEFEATS MY PURPOSE OF GETTING THIS
> > INFO TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC!!
> >
> > i BETTER QUIT BEFORE I SAW SOMETHING I'LL REGRET.
> >
> > Keith Roberts wrote:
> >
> > >Do you have that choice? I didn't have that choice when you sent it to
> me.
> > >Keith
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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