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From: "Apptech" <apptech@paradise.net.nz>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [EE] NASA & ESA on Solar magneto mechanisms <--  
Un-subscribblingsoRussell can play all he wants


>> People come here to talk about PICs and related
>> engineering and science.
>> You've been starting threads regularly on totally
>> unrelated topics.
>
> Relatively unrelated, yes.
> Essentially all with engineering content. No Darwin awards,
> funniest home videos, etc from me.
>
>> Nobody asked about recent global warming research or
>> theories.  You decided
>> unilaterally to barrage the list this stuff unsolicitedly.
>
> Good word.
> The same does, indeed, apply to much of what I have posted.
> More or less by definition, many will have not heard of
> material if it's new or innovative. (essentially) Everything
> I post along those lines is felt liable to be of interest to
> inquiring engineering minds. Much raises little or no
> comment. Much is a few lines of a few short paragraphs. Some
> is somewhat longer. The longest is far shorter than the
> totally untrimmed responses that pour off the list every
> day. In terms of volume it's low at the worst of times when
> the many who are interested read it and the many who are not
> don't.
>

Russell,

You posted this in reply to Sean Schouten in August 2006:
Sean:
> 1) I like to see mail that doesn't feed my interest of electronics
> somewhere else than [PIC] or [EE].

Russell:
"Alas [EE] is NOT just Electrical engineering , as any sane EE would
conclude, but stands for "everything engineering". (See the FAQ). I
would love to see a [TECHO] tag added, allowing [EE] to be used for
electrical stuff alone, but James resolutely ignores all
blandishments, bribes and brutality and refuses to add extra tags. I
don't know why but he's obviously convinced it's not going to happen.

That leaves some interesting things in EE :-)

I must admit that the subject to hand is marginal but as it is ABOUT
EE's it arguably belongs there. But, being in OT is OK too.

I'd also like to see a [WOT] tag for even more extreme OT stuff. I add
WOT to my more severe OT stuff and many people seem to find that
useful enough.

Russell"

I'm relatively new to this group, but it would seem that something made you 
change your mind about putting the OT tag on posts you once considered of 
marginal value to those with an electrical engineering interest.

Curiously,
Richard



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