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On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 08:03:20AM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> > a "list about new systems where we can ask about history because that
> > helps us build those new systems".
> 
> https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff says
> 
>     The Computer Old Farts Forum provides a place for people to discuss
>     the history of computers and their future.
> 
> That seems to align well to me.
> 
> Yet another list seems a bad idea; the interested parties would be
> spread more thinly.  Just as a worldwide Usenet group was weakened when
> anyone could start a forum on a topic and many did.

Seems like the rest of the world, well, the good parts, need to learn
about COFF.  We need as much mass as we can get from tuhs and then we
advertise on stackoverflow and hacker news and ?
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