I've been a PICList member for 20+ years. On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 00:18, Alexandre Souza wrote: > When I began using piclist, some 15 years ago, it was a free place to > chat. You could bring any reasonable subject without lots of rules and ha= ve > a very friendly chat > Nowadays, there are lots and LOTS of rules. I've been away from piclist > for some years and now that I'm back, there are tags, rules, rules, rules= , > more rules and no talking. > I'm not aware of this being the case. It would be useful if you could point me/us to the source of the rules you refer to. Are you referring to others than those outlined below? About the only ones I'm aware of are 1. Restrictions on discussing certain non technical subjects which tend to cause arguments and bad feeling between people - whether on PICList or most other places. There ARE many places where such things can be discussed and the bad feelings go with the territory. Examples that come to mind without checking a list are - politics, religion, war, sex. 2. People should be treated well. No abuse, unconstructive criticism, profanity, or adverse comments or treatment based on ethnicity/race/gender / ... . These seem like fairly standard fare for a technically oriented list. Apart from that discussion on a wide range of subjects is welcome. Subject tags are provided to allow people to view or not view areas of interest. These place no added restrictions on the users apart from the need to put "[xxx" in the subject line where "xxx" is one of the assigned subject tags. Russell McMahon --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .