James Newton, Host wrote:
> If you see an interesting question or comment on the microchip.com
> forum, cross post it here so we can have a hack at it.

Or not.  Anyone can subscribe to the Microchip forums.  If someone wants to
see those posts they can, and you can therefore presume they do.  There are
also a bunch of people subscribed to the PIClist and various Microchip
forums, and I doubt they'd want to see a post twice.  I know I don't.

> It would be possible to add the mchip forums to the archive on
> piclist.com but I'm not sure that would be worth the effort.

That would be a pointless waste of effort as Microchip already does that.
Again, it's available to everyone already.

> It would also be possible to setup an in only (no mail) account at
> piclist @ mit.edu and then subscribe to the microchip forum from that
> account. That would have the effect of all microchip forum posts
> automatically being cross posted to the piclist.

Nooooooo!  First, there are way more Microchip posts than PIClist posts
accross many forums and catagories.  I only subscribe to a small subset and
get about as many Microchip messages as PIClist messages.  If you do that
I'll be out of here in an instant.  Then again, maybe you think of that as a
Good Thing.

Another point is that the email notification messages of Microchip forum
posts are a mess.  The forum allows various types of formatting and has a
specific way to identify replied-to text.  Unfortunately the email gateway
sucks, and most of this is lost.  You can't even reply via the email
gateway.  What I do is look at the garbled message briefly.  If it's on a
thread I remember and am interested in or the garbled mess gets my
attention, I click on the link and go to that message straight in the forum.
I probably miss some things just because they are too much of a mess.  Oh
well.

Another problem is that the Microchip forum has a larger fraction of totally
clueless bozos and those to whom english is the 27th language, but post
anyway.  I filter out those topics that tend to be overrun by these kinds of
people, but I don't see how that would be possible via the PIClist.

Again, if people want to see Microchip forum posts, all they have to do is
subscribe and they get to chose what combinations of the 50 or so topics to
get notified about.


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