Dec or Digital Networking

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Sep 3 22:52:00 2003

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mail List wrote:

> Hello Antonio,
>
> > And the original definition of on-topic was something like
> > "not sold commercially for at least 10 years"; under that
> > definition this would clearly fail.
>
> There are a whole lot of items that most would consider on-topic that
> third party commercial dealers are still selling. A better definition might
> be items that haven't been sold by the original equipment manufacturer
> for 10 years.
>
> Best Regards

Or, why not simply items that apply/relate to equipment at least
10 years old?
                                                - don

> At 06:06 PM 9/3/03 +0100, you wrote:
> > > It is probably a bad idea to spam (even if it is ~on-topic)
> > > your fans,
> >
> >It's no more on-topic than it would be if HP were spamming
> >about the new ES47 (unless dnpg are still selling* the
> >HUB90 stuff and friends).
> >
> >Antonio
> >
> >[*] And the original definition of on-topic was something like
> >"not sold commercially for at least 10 years"; under that
> >definition this would clearly fail.
> >
> >
> >--
> >
> >---------------
> >Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Wed Sep 03 2003 - 22:52:00 BST