List etiquette

[Jay West]

> Apparently I am still subscribed to this list though I asked to be 
> unsubscribed.
You asked me to do your work for you, when you are perfectly capable of 
unsubscribing yourself. Lazy.

I'll honor your request immediately, since you can't seem to do your own 
work.

> Now that is double talk.  What ever else could it mean!!!  You must be
> a politician by trade or a Lawyer.
No, you're imposing YOUR interpretation on us, when we all have a pretty 
good idea just what it means. I (and others) have said exactly what it means 
and you're simply disagreeing, which I will defend your right to disagree. 
But you will not be allowed to insist that everyone agree with your opinion.

The occasional off-topicness is acceptable, usually when it trails off from 
an on-topic post. If it involves XP, you can't help but expect some grief. 
Now if you asked about how to get PUTR running under XP, or how to hook up 
8" floppy drives to XP for vintage software preservation, that's a different 
story. If you can't see the difference, there's not much I can do to help.

> Please unsubscribe me from this list.  I was yelled at about my post
> yet you yourself posted about using 8" drives on a PC...Horrors, a
> PC...and right out of your own mouth.  Doesnt that make you ashamed?
> There have been post since on car maintenance and several other topics
> that are totaly unrelated to computers of ANY kind.
The post was on-topic because it was about an 8" drive, and being able to 
preserve old non-pc data. Very on-topic. The post about car maintenance was 
tongue in cheek, and meant to illustrate a point but apparently the point 
was lost on you.

> I will take my North Star and Nova 1 and go elsewhere for my daily fix
> on computers.
Some quaint phrase about a swinging door comes to mind.

> Please unsubscribe me from this list, I say again.
Since you can't seem to figure out how to either send an unsubscribe email 
to the automated list software, or can't figure out how to type the list 
management URL into your browser, I will oblige you myself.

Since you run a list for vintage (apparently microcomputer only) software, I 
would suggest that you extend your list charter to include vintage hardware. 
It'd be great to have like-minded people with you. 386 discussion here is 
always welcome though, unless it's in a very uninteresting mainstream PC. 
Questions about DOS are ok here too, particularly on old hardware. This all 
falls under the definition of "classic".

Jay West