Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

> I vote to keep it.  Besides the educational value, the great postings
> about electronics on geda-user are archived and searchable via
> Google.  That means that folks who are searching on keywords related
> to electronics will come across the gEDA project.  The high level of
> the disucssions on geda-user serve as great advertising for the
> entire gEDA Project.
> 
> FWIW, sci.electronics.* has become a cesspool of spammers and trolls.
> Other electronics discussion sites tend towards basic electronics.
> For example, sparkfun is a good site, but the discussions are largely
> oriented to newbies.  Nothing wrong with that, but I'm glad geda-user
> serves the needs of newbies as well as experienced engineers.  I'd
> like to keep it that way.
> 

I. too, had to dump sci.electronics.design, more because of the clique
that took it over to discuss politics, restaurants, yard tools, etc.
than because of the spammers (maybe they've become more prevalent
recently -- I wouldn't know).

There were some real stars, though, whom I miss terribly -- Win Hill,
Phil Hobbs, a couple of other guys from physics labs.  Once in a while I
check into it to see if I can stand it, and have to unsubscribe again.

Yes, as long as geda remains the emphasis, and other stuff doesn't take
over, I agree (sez me, who have just contributed to the dilution :-).

John Perry


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