source= http://www.piclist.com/piclist/2003/08/24/200553a.txt?

Peter says: "Bringing it to the attention of 2000 people; childish and
arrogant."

I tend to agree there, but that isn't as critical as makeing darn sure that
people do not post tripe like that on the [PIC:] topic. As long as its
untagged or [OT:], it is easy for people to filter out and if not tagged, we
don't even take a bandwidth hit if enough people turn off the un-tagged
channel:

You can turn off the Other: channel by sending
 SET PICLIST TOPICS: -Other
to
 LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU or click on:

mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20-other

http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/listfaq.htm#topics

Anyway, the point of the channels is that A) there are always people who
can't keep their mouths shut (me too sometimes) and B) there are other
people who can't spend the time required to filter out the crap. If you
loose them, the list becomes worthless. We have to make sure NO crap ends up
on the [PIC:] channel.

We got Scott back, and Wouter and Wagner, but Tjaart and John Payson have
never returned. And Roman has fallen silent.

Olin Lathrop, PicDude, Peter L. Peres, Jinx, Wouter van Ooijen, Alan B.
Pearce, Spehro Pefhany, Russell McMahon, Herbert Graf, and William Chops
Westfield, Bob Ammerman, Dave VanHorn answer the questions today. Scott
Dattalo helps out with really complex math, Harold M Hallikainen on RF and
lighting, and so on with other specialists.

These people ALL make a living doing this. They are GOOD AT IT. We NEED
them, they do NOT need us. The fact that they are willing to spend time
answering our questions is always amazing to me.

I am forever grateful. They make the list.

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