>> That is similar to what I do, except, it carries the real 
>> issue of
>> 'killing' a bunch of unrelates stuff because some people 
>> start new
>> topics in reply to existing 'killed' topics, the '[EE] 
>> Dialup login to
>> ISP help!' is case in point...

> Well, as the record and movie industries have discovered, 
> filtering is
> never perfect.
>
> Even if we had a topic tag system that seemed perfect 
> we'll still have
> cases were a message is so close to the edge that some 
> will think it
> should be in, while others don't.

Let me try this once more.
I try every year or so,
It never works :-).
But -

Could we just perhaps pretty pretty please try another tag 
between EE and OT.
It makes perfect sense to me. But, then, it always has :-(.

EE then becomes Electrical Engineering, as everyone tends to 
think it is.

TECHO or Science or whatever becomes real world technical 
engineering & science stuff that's not electrical related.

OT is as now.

[OLIN]: may wish to dust off his spoof list complete with 
[RUSSELL] etc and repost it now to reduce the chance of the 
above gaining fraction.

The GW and many other subject now in EE painlessly (for 
most) end up in TECHO.
All, except an unsatisfiable few, are happy.

I genuinely don't know what makes this undesirable or hard 
or makes it more work for the admins. I mean that. I assume 
that it IS undesirable for some reason,   but I can't see 
why.

The point in doing this and not relegating the material to 
[OT] is that it then gives a *reasonably* pure technical 
content channel that isn't noised up with social politics, 
war in Iraq, 911, school coupon systems etc.

Those who ridicule this system (as eg Olin has) seem to want 
the 'extra' material to go where it is unseen or is not 
posted at all rather than giving it an honoured home.

I can well appreciate that GW is seen as religion by many - 
but my desires were to present credible material that tends 
to suggest that the Jury is still out on the science. I am 
neither pro nor anti GW per se - I just want to know the 
truth or, that not being possible, see us doing the best we 
can to establish reality. Strangely it seems that those who 
literally use the term religion in conjunction with GW also 
seem to tacitly support the current official approach. 
Whatever.



        Russell

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