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Dan Smith said:

> We've set up another topic tag called [TECH] which Russell 
> has agreed
> to police (along with [OT]).  Bob ((Blick)) will be 
> helping to police the [PIC]
> and [EE] tags.  This will allow us to refocus some of the 
> other tags.

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> The new topic definitions effective immediately are:
...

> [EE]
> The doing of Electrical/Electronic Engineering that you 
> can do
> yourself. Power stations go into TECH unless it's a power 
> station that
> you can build. So too eg Magnetohydrodynamics etc. 
> Windmill
> alternators and related systems and alternate energy at 
> the doing
> level go into EE. Windfarms into TECH. etc
...
> [TECH]
> About technology, Engineering other than EE, science hard 
> stuff. NOT
> the philosophy of science in any depth. New discoveries in 
> QM,
> cosmology etc are fine. Almost anything that gets a long 
> thread that
> diverges can probably evolve into OT once people know it 
> exists. Those
> who care can follow it. eg Global Warming is TECH at the 
> latest
> discoveries level but not discussions of "An inconvenient 
> truth" or
> "The great global warming swindle" etc. This may rate an 
> occasional
> mention in TECH but long ramblings can go to OT.
...
> [OT]
> This label is for posts that are completely off the topic 
> of
> engineering/technology. The only things we don't ever want 
> to see are
> religious/metaphysical, sex, hate, or political messages.

> Hopefully, these definitions are pretty clear, but if you 
> have any
> questions please ask away and the admin team will do our 
> best to
> answer :-)
>
> Dan


            Russell 

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