Well I've been following the latest days development in the mentioned
threads and I actually enjoy it. Maybe I'm a bit strange, but what's the
big deal... I think that the off-topic-threads bring the PIC-community
closer, beacuse engineers are (from what atleast i have seen) much the
same all around the world; boys in spirit. The boring, academic type of
engineer might want to turn to another forum for discussion... If these,
as someone called them, watercooler discussions bother any of you please
set up the 'pure - technical - and - nothing - but - technical - pic -
list'.

/JD

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Martin R. Green [SMTP:elimar@BIGFOOT.COM]
>Sent:  den 15 augusti 1997 16:23
>To:    PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject:       What about the PIC's?
>
>This morning when I checked my email I had received 14 messages from
>PICLIST overnight.  Great I thought, until I found out that 4 or 5 of them
>were about the number of fingers owned by a Martian and building a PIC
>based spaceship, and 4 of them were a continuation of the (now) esoteric
>risk assessment thread (please TAKE THIS ONE OFFLINE! or to the actuarial
>list, if it exists).  Several more were a (progressively less) humorous
>continuation of the OTP erasing thread.  The remaining messages were about
>the embedded controller conference or a new compiler.
>
>Not one message was about PIC's themselves.  Have we forgotten why we are
>following this list?
>
>JMNSHO - Martin R. Green
>elimar@bigfoot.com