22 Jun
2018
22 Jun
'18
8:46 p.m.
On 22 Jun 2018, at 15:28, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
For the record, I'm fine with old stuff getting discussed on TUHS.
Even not Unix stuff. We wandered into Linux/ext2 with Ted, that was fun.
We've wandered into the VAX history (UWisc got an 8600 and called it
"speedy" - what a mistake) and I learned stuff I didn't know, so that
was fun (and sounded just like history at every company I've worked for,
sadly :)
As a perpetrator of some of this off-topicness I think (on reflection, I originally also
wondered about a different list) that a good approach would be to allow anyone, if
something is just clearly off-topic, to say 'please take this to a more appropriate
forum', but if no-one does so it should be fine. Obviously this requires people to
actually do that, but I hope no-one sits and fumes without saying anything. Equally
obviously this is just my opinion.
(My main problem with off-topic things is now that the OSX mail client no longer seems to
be able to reliably thread things which I find an astonishing regression, so I have to
delete several threads. I suspect it gets precisely no care and feeding from Apple, at
least not from anyone who understands email.)
--tim