On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:53:21PM +0200, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > > But changing EE to Everything Engineering seems like a perfect and
> > > practical solution to me.
> > 
> > At the end of the day it's only a nomenclature change. EE to 
> > Everything 
> > Engineering only make sense to those who have participated in the list
> > discussion. To anyone walking in it'll still be Electrical 
> > Engineering.
> 
> Why? Change the description in the piclist.com intro page for the
> newcomers, and announce it (under [PIC] :)? ) for the current members.

Because Wouter it's the difference between thinking and knowing. It creates
the same type of dissonance you get with the classic experiment shown in
this image:

http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/1997/courses/1655/textcolors1.gif

Quickly go through the list and say the name of the color of each word.
You won't find it easy.

Same thing here. We can all read that EE means Everything Engineering. But
due to years of conditioning, EE will virtually automagically bring up
Electrical Engineering, no matter what it really means. It'll take a forced
effort to change the meaning.

After having read everything in this thread since Olin's comment I have
formed a final opinion:

1. Leave everything the way that it has been.

2. If you are not interested in OT subjects, then unsubscribe from it. 
Mislabled posts will either be handled by someone else, transferred into the
correct topic area, or dropped. Call it an object lesson.

3. Continue to work towards channelizing digests so that OT can be 
eliminated if the digest reader so desires.

One of the admins came in a stated that any changes would take work to do.
The admins already have too much work to do. Let's not give them any more.

Off Topic means Off Topic. There's wide latitude in that definition. If that
bothers you, then unsubscribe. Problem solved.

This is one case where the best thing to do is nothing. I certainly don't
think that it's worth admin time and effort. They do this job so that
you and I don't have to. We need to give that a large measure of respect.

BAJ
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