smplx wrote:
> You are free to become a PICLIST admin and help direct it's course.

Not true. A couple of years ago I got tired of people telling me this, and=
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said that I'd be happy to learn the ropes and become an admin. I never got =
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response, nor an explanation of what the process of becoming an admin is.=20
Bob Blick complained his way in, but the same approach isn't working for me=
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:)


> Or you
> could set up your own mailing list and let your subscribers do anything
> they want on it.

It's kind of like "if you don't like what your government does, move to=20
another country", isn't it? :) Has some merits, for sure.


> But think on this: if the only people who are allowed to post on your new
> list are professionals with lots of experience, where are all the
> interesting thought provoking threads going to start. I mean, it's all
> well and good people asking "what chip has these markings" or "recommend =
a
> PCB fab" but I can't see an expert asking "how to measure the current
> flowing into a battery" and things like "cutting a coke can" would be too
> off topic to even consider.
>
> The PILIST is what it is because of ALL its subscribers. It's not just th=
e
> intelligent professional responses that make the list an interesting plac=
e
> to lurk, it's also the "stupid" questions that provoke these responses.

Straw man. An "experts-only" list is definitely not something I have in=20
mind, and I doubt it is what Gus was suggesting.


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