On Tue, 29 May 2001, Lord Isildur wrote:

> Do you think there's enough of us to risk splitting things? the port-vax 
> list is quite lively and just about the only place (maybe comp.sys.dec) 
> where one can find quite this concentration, quantity, and expertise of 
> VAXheads. The occasional off-topic pmax or alpha related post usually is 
> not flamed out of existence, either. 
> If such a list does come into existence, how about mirroring it as a 
> newsgroup? yes, usenet still exists, and most of the lusers have left it 
> for web-ish things instead.. i'm mostly concerned that by fracturing the 
> little community here (or potentially doing so) onto multiple lists, etc, 
> that it will cause it to fade away. check out comp.sys.dec, i think a lot 
> of the aim of this proposed list is covered there.. 
>  just a concern to think about.. 

On the contrary, I think it would be a great place to sort of
"merge" things.  Mirroring it as a newsgroup would be a great idea, but
that's something you'd have to talk to Brian about since he'll be hosting
it.  The SunRescue list is so popular and such a good idea I only hope
that a DecRescue list would do the same for another great series of
computers...

-Linc.

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