I maintain a "techo" list of people who are interested that I send items of interest *to me* to. Many but not all of these also get sent to PICList. Most are short references to sites. Some are my own comments or notes of varying length These may be anything that takes my interest but will be biased towards technology & science. These almost never feature religious or philosophical references - occasionally they may if the material falls in several areas at once or (very occasionally) if I just feel like it's a good idea. Anyone who wants to is welcome to have their name added to the list. You can also ask for it to be removed at any time so the cost of trying is low. I absolutely do not sell or give these names to anyone else. The recipients will almost always be anonymous to others (messages are sent to "Friends"). Very occasionally I may slip up and place the list in the TO field rather than BCC - while I try not to do this its caveat emptor (the price is right). If you want a source of probably interesting OT that is more techo topic focused than what you get generally on PICList but somewhat wider in scope than what I usually post on PICList OT (can it be?) then by all means ask to have your name added to the list. Can be removed again if the material proves uninteresting. Much but not all material will be duplicates of my PICList OT posts. Russell McMahon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Bryden" < > To: Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [OT]:Formatting a 80GB Hard Drive > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:10:53PM +1200, Russell McMahon wrote: > > > if you > > really care about the philosophy and why's and wherefores behind the tag > > system it might be educational to have a look back through the archives. > > Russell, > > Ok, I accept that and bow to the consensus that was obviously reached then. I > will unsubscribe to OT, (actually it seems like someone took matters into > their own hands and unsubscribed me - I only received ~20 non-OT messages per > day over the last two days). I will miss some of the useful pointers from you > and others, but for the rest I can't afford the bandwidth. > > Thanks for the background, > > Simon. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.