Post by thread:PICLIST: should it be splitted? [OT]

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Baldwin <spam_OUTstevebTakeThisOuTKCBBS.GEN.NZ> To: .....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLISTKILLspamMITVMA.MIT.EDU> Date: Wednesday, 19 November 1997 12:50 Subject: Re: PICLIST: should it be splitted? >One way to halve the volume of messages to the list would be to kill this >thread. > >Re: Binaries. - Somebody posted a binary. Oops ! >That person isn't likely to do it again and anyone else might like to post >a message asking if someone with better facilities would mind helping to >distribute it. Not unless they enjoy the smell of their own flesh being flame-grilled :) > >Re: OT subjects. >This is a list dedicated to a particular type of microcontroller. >Microcontrollers get used in all sorts of situations. If we weren't >interested in interacting with the real world, we'd be writing Windows >software. IMHO, if it bolts onto a PIC it's on topic. Hey! Some of us do both! Programming in Windows makes you yearn for the clean simplicity of straight C coding though. (along the lines of "without light, their would be no dark") > >BTW. In 7 years on the net, this is the first list I've seen with the [OT] >convention. Damn good idea. Yes it is - but my question ATM is WT* isn't this thread marked [OT] ? <goes and marks it> MikeS <.....mikesmith_ozKILLspam.....relaymail.net>