The list is mostly PIC related a lot of the time, but drifts off now and then.
I personally would get pretty bored reading just dry PIC messages.

Now, the religion and politics rants can get annoying, but I welcome other
technical topics from other engineers.

Randy Brumbaugh wrote:

> I just discovered and joined this list and am amazed at the terribly low
> signal-to-noise ratio.  Could we keep the discussion to PIC topics please?
> I had over 50 messages in my inbox this morning, and a prolific PIC
> discussion would be very welcome.  But most were discussing magnetic
> fields, perpetual motion machines, urban legends, house wiring practice US
> vs. UK -- so now I delete most of the messages without reading.
>
> The folks on USEnet figured this out a while ago -- if it isn't relevant,
> don't read it, and PLEASE don't respond.  And if you MUST respond (perhaps
> your ego tells you that your insight is especially keen and unique, which
> it is not), do it in personal email, not to the list.
>
> So please:
> 1.  Only send to the list things related to PIC processors, support tools
> and projects.  Ignore anything not related.
>
> 2.  Try to be concise -- remember people have to read it, and most of us
> are busy.  Put something descriptive on the subject line. If you are
> sending a follow-up in a thread, include the original subject so people can
> easily see if it is a thread of interest.
>
> 3.  Thanks for all those who have sent relevant and useful PIC info -- it
> makes the list worth reading.