It is quite obvious that people should not include endlessly repeated long footers. The idea of editing posts to say what is essential is a fairly objective matter. Sometimes some commonsense is required to know whether to include all the previous to and fro's (if it is a long running post, closely related time-wise, then no is the common sense way).
As for what should be discussed, this is defined pretty well in the rules of this group. You seem to favour a purely technical list, fine, I could live with such. But who really favours letting folk never bothering to edit?
As for a more purely "technical" direction, it is fun sometimes for people to make jokes, to rave on this or that, to vent some gripes against practices that impinge on their continued enjoyment of PCI Macs and so on. I think the list nannies do an overall good job, sometimes in difficult circumstances, to control things, and sensibly let some things roll a while.
David Elmo
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Again the thread here has been contaminated by attributing the second part of what you included to me when it was actually someone else who complained about the off topic messages.. This was compounded by the inclusion being put at the end of your post.
My post was about the failure to change the subject line when the thread is spunoff. No matter how slight a change of subject the subject line should be modified in order to reflect the directional adjustment. Not doing this leads to endlessly confused threads and a lot of miscommunication. And has in my case sometimes resulted in my own cry for help being co-opted and spun off so bad I never did get the help needed.. I have seen this happen with other lister's posts also.
It is perfectly fine to include a joke now and again as long as it is not the entire content of the post. Also discussing how the list is run or lister's practices in posting is ok as long as it is constructive. And does not lead to flaming. Endless bickering over opinions or prating against PCs etc is not only a waste of time but very boring after so many years.
A lot more tolerance has been shown on the list in the past year. And it gives more leeway. and yet the list has not become either chaotic or stagnant. that's an accomplishment ! Many listers have moved on to newer machines and left the list and still new ones appear. PCI Macs should be around for a while yet.
I said month's ago and repeat it here this is a great list. I wish there was a list this great to help me with all of the other technical and not so technical areas of activities and interests in my life.
Too bad there's not a Low End Bikes, Low End Digital Video and Low End RC Model Airplanes too ! Well you get the idea. And maybe someday there will be !
-- Adrian
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