Pasi T Mustalahti wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Lynn Richardson wrote:
>
> > Sam S Man wrote:
> > >
> > > Being new to the LIST I'm really surprised and frustrated  to see I've
> > > subscribed for. A lot of rubbish, totally unprofessional discussions
> > > going on, wasting everyone's time checking out 50-100 emails everyday
> > > which could've been used to do something else - productive.
> >
> > Go start your own mail list.  Run it the way you want.
> PTM: I'm very disapointed to this list. Or better yet: I'm disappointed to
> these people who doesn't understand how to use Internet.
> There is a lot of lists and news-lists (wars, flames..) where you can go
> to continue your ragbiting. Leave these technical lists for what they are
> made for.
>

I think I understand what is happening... the ones complaining are not
native english speaking and there is a considerable effort on their part
to just read the posts let alone sort out the dreck.  I apologize to
these people as I didn't realize their situation.  Us native english
speakers can rapidly scan the 50-100 posts without doing a full read and
skip the junk so it (usually) doesn't bother us.


> > > Enough is enough. Let's all be professional and disccus ONLY PICs. After
> > > all this is the PICLIST not PIGLIST and I supposed you're all are
> > > professional engineers, aren't you?
> > >
> >
> > Shit no, we don't allow such types on here.  Well, maybe a few if
> > they're interesting.  Are you interesting?  Have you done much with PIC
> > chips yet?
>
> PTM: IF shit.throwing is your main interest, why not make a new list for
> it and go there.

I must remember this is an internationally read list and US idioms and
expletives can be misunderstood.  This was meant to be a joke, but they
seldom translate well.   Reminds me of a time when a japanese engineer I
worked with was told a joke that used the term 'wild goose', needless to
say the joke wasn't understood.  However he did have an excellent USA to
Nippon idiom dictionary that he used later in the day to look it up, we
thought he'd lost his mind when he started laughing hard enough to need
to sit down!