[rescue] miss me?

[Tim H.]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:47:48 -0400
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> Didn't a bunch of people leave it recently?
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd

Yeah, a bunch did.  It was a few camel's backs breaking I think, the
straw wasn't unusually large.  Geeks is a thick skinned sort of list
anyway, so the thin skinned, or the people who don't want to go to the
effort of distancing themselves probably are better off avoiding it. 
That isn't meant to be at all derogatory of those that left, I agreed
with their POV.

It wasn't the content that made me quit following, it was the
realization that my unemployed life was starting to revolve around the
geeks list, and then the realization of how pathetic that was.  I guit
following geeks, and immediately noticed an increased desire to actually
do stuff with the computer instead of just reading email.  I didn't
unsubscribe, just turned off delivery for a while.

It would be nice to find a list that was really just general technical
discussions, without any of Dave's muttering about suits (with which I
agree generally) or people beating on bloggers, or political
discussions, but I don't know how to get a critical mass.  Geeks really
is for the politico-religious wars, to keep them off this list, and
without this list it would never have gotten started.  A list kinda like
Bill intended the workstations list to be, just more vague, including
non-computer stuff like audio and mechanical truss design.  But
workstations never really made it from what I hear (I went away shortly
after it's birth, and didn't return until after it was gone.) and if
that sort of list couldn't spawn from rescue, then what kind of list
would it take to spawn a general technical list?

So if anybody knows of a list like I am describing, drop me a line.

Tim