Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:07:05 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <200006130807.KAA54220@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
From: Markus Leypold <leypold@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: tfb@cley.com
Cc: PUPS@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
In-reply-to: <14660.61330.622418.671382@cley.com> (message from Tim Bradshaw
	on Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:11:30 +0100 (BST))
Subject: Re: PLEASE TAKE THIS ELSEWHERE (was Re: RX50 on RQDX3 on 2.11BSD)
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 > Delivered-To: leypold@lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
 > From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com>
 > Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:11:30 +0100 (BST)
 > Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
 > 
 > * David O'Brien wrote:
 > 
 > > This goes back to the UHS / PUPS discussion.  I didn't vote so before,
 > > but maybe it is time to separate the mail for the two.  I agree that the
 > > first posts were interesting in the historical insight that could be
 > > gained.  But this thread has turned into a rather long hardware
 > > discussion applicable to only a handful of people that have this
 > > hardware.
 > 
 > > I do not mean to be mean, but it seems moving this to some PDP-11 list (I
 > > guess one needs to be created) would be possible.
 > 
 > Please don't.  I love reading discussions of random old bits of
 > hardware, and such discussions have gone on on the PUPS list for a
 > long time.


So do I. Actually I can understand the need of some participants to
somehow reduce their mail volume. On the other side, it seems to be
quite difficult to draw the exact line between on- and
offtopic. Personally I try to filter as good as I can, and admittedly I
do not read everything at once (and sometimes only weeks later).

Regards -- Markus