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

[Greg Newell]

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Or perhaps you should since there were guidelines agreed upon i.e. putting=
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OT in the header!!! Go cry somewhere else.




At 02:02 PM 9/22/2003, you wrote:

>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=20
> 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=
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> 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=20
> 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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> >
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Greg Newell
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