On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:28:47PM -0400, piclist@ian.org wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, James Newton wrote:
> > Why not turn off EE and OT?
> 
>  I could turn off OT, but I don't want to have to turn off EE because it
> is a good place for one, me to ask questions about my projects and two,
> sometimes I see a question I can help with and three, I like reading about
> electronics topics that come up.

Bingo.

> 
> And I understand where Russel is coming from.  When you get to know a
> group you want to include more and more of what matters to you with them.
> THey are your friends, people who you want to tell your opinion to and get
> theirs on yours.  Thats why there is an OT board, frankly.. so you can be
> social without getting in the way of what the list is meant for.

Right on point.

> 
> I'm not going to quit the list because of it, but plenty of people are
> going to filter EE and that means those people won't be able to help me or
> others who post questions, and that is a loss.  It's a great resource.

Even worse when they don't get a response, they'll start posting EE
questions under the PIC tag, and then this mess will start all over again.

The EE tag is currently overloaded. Split the tag as Russell has suggested
or relegate anything that's not actually Electrical/Electronic Engineering
to OT.

BAJ
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