>> This list has really gone to the dogs. >> Perhaps it will improve later, but somehow I doubt it. >Unfortunate as it is.. I second that motion.. >The Signal has faded to almost nothing, ... >I don't WANT to sit and wade thru 200 E-mails a day, just to see >10 that have reasonable (Maybe not wanted, but reasonable) content. I sympathise with the leavers and agree that there has been some fairly unnaceptable stuff on the list lately - mainly in the personal abuse department. HOWEVER, things are probably not nearly as bad as they may seem. In the last 34 days (since my latest mail file started (I have a year or 2 of older ones elsewhere if required for checking) 1. There have been about 3700 messages 2. There have been about 940 messages with [OT] in the title About 25% Easily filtered 3. There have been about 690 posts with the word "PIC" in their title Many more ARE directly PIC related (see below) Some of 3. are included in 2. Some of 1. would have been OT but not a large percentage (I looked through the titles). Most of the non-OT marked topics look like the sort of technical material that I would expect to meet on the PICList. Here's a continuous alphabetic list (ie NO deletions) started from just after "Cats!" (which was off-topic, unmarked as such and fairly inane as I recall). There were from one to many posts on each of these topics. CCS/PCM PIC12C762 pullups CHANGE TRISB cheap hard disks [OT] Cheap Linear potentiometer Checksum Chip Finder Chip on board assembly (wire bonding) chipfind website class D audio amplifier Cmos Digital Camera column of dots LED? Compares Compiling an assembly file for a Microchip EEPROM Controlling Brushless DC motors Controlling MOTORS without encoder!! Cost of surface mount devices Counter 0 to 999 Counter 0 to 999 and 74HC164 Dallas DS1307Z data over DC power lines Decoding LEGO remote control Digital Data Logger needs LPT specs Ding Dong! Ding Dong! I2C calling! disassemble hex Dissimilar metals Doing percentage or ratio Doing percentage or ratio-Thanks [error correction] I notice that neither Tjaart or Brad chose to put [OT] in the title of their posts :-) But, do come back again at some future date Tjaart, we'll genuinely miss you. (Brad I don't know but Y'all are most welcome to come join the party if/when our SNR again gets high enough ). come back soon, Russell McMahon _____________________________ >From another world - www.easttimor.com What can one man* do? Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! at http://www.thehungersite.com/ (* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-)) -----Original Message----- From: Brad Campbell To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Monday, 11 October 1999 23:07 Subject: Re: Goodbye >Tjaart van der Walt wrote: >> >> After lurking for a few days, I've decided to join >> the ranks of others. This list has really gone to >> the dogs. Perhaps it will improve later, but somehow >> I doubt it. > >Unfortunate as it is.. I second that motion.. >The Signal has faded to almost nothing, and the animosity displayed >by the small bandwidth consuming few has pushed me to the point >I don't WANT to sit and wade thru 200 E-mails a day, just to see >10 that have reasonable (Maybe not wanted, but reasonable) content. >To those that have helped me over the last year, I thank you, though >most of you have already jumped ship... > >As they say in South Africa.. >Keep Well.. >And In Aus.. >See Ya Later.. > > >-- >Brad. /"\ > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > X AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ >