List etiquette

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Sellam wrote...
> > this is NOT a mailing list for general computer discussions (and pleading
> > ignorance to this is not a good excuse) and that we overall take a dim
> > view to these sorts of questions.
> Nor is it the place to discuss lockpicking, or Al Gore's statements.

Although the lockpicking discussion hsa gone _way_ off-topic now, it 
started off on-topic, as a question of how to get inside a DEC HSC70 
(IIRC) if you didn't have the right key.

If that's off-topic, then so are discussions of, say, digitial 
electronics.

-tony