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From: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Signal/noise
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 12:23:32 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204022332.GA14788@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPWNY8Wx87Qx+gP+bm-YskuGbvu1pXoh2=rWafA50u8zWxSY-w@mail.gmail.com>

> So I don't know what counts as 'signal' on this list versus 'noise',
> but I'd much rather read a million posts about OSI, CLNP and other
> networks – a history lesson and information that's been getting scarce
> in general – than kill/mute yet another thread full of generic "boo M$
> Windoze" drivel that I can already find on Reddit.

Warren's protocol for off-topic material: let it slide for a day or two,
then politely ask people to move it to the COFF list when it doesn't
veer back to the Unix direction :-)

Cheers, Warren

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-04  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-03 15:02 [TUHS] OSI stack (Was: Posters) Noel Chiappa
2019-02-03 16:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-02-03 23:33 ` [TUHS] Signal/noise (Was: OSI stack (Was: Posters)) Mantas Mikulėnas
2019-02-04  0:10   ` Arthur Krewat
2019-02-04  0:54   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-02-04  2:23   ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2019-02-04  2:37     ` [TUHS] Signal/noise Larry McVoy
2019-02-04  2:57       ` Bakul Shah
2019-02-04  3:26         ` Warner Losh
2019-02-04  3:26         ` Dan Cross
2019-02-04  4:55         ` Dave Horsfall
2019-02-04  6:20         ` Jon Steinhart
     [not found] ` <CANCZdfq5PM9jFEi9=geC+CTnveXs5CprN7b+ku+s+FYzw1yQBw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-02-06 17:16   ` [TUHS] OSI stack (Was: Posters) Warner Losh
2019-02-06 17:23     ` Larry McVoy
2019-02-06 23:37     ` George Michaelson

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