[Info-vax] [OT] Slashdot Beta, was: Re: new life at comp.misc

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2014-02-19, MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 19-feb-2014 13:37, RS Wood wrote:
>>> A bit off topic, but maybe of interest to comp.os.vms.  [...]
>>>
>>> [...]comp.misc.  This is a friendly invitation to come join the
>>> conversation.  There are a lotof dead newsgroups out there and
>>> until recently comp.misc was oneof them.  But as of last week,
>>> it's a pretty cool place to hang outwith other techies.
>> Looks interesting, thanks for the notification!
>>
> 
> I'm worried that if too many of these alternatives spring up, then
> the Slashdot community is going to be fractured beyond repair.
> 
> The best solution would be to get Dice to drop that monstrosity
> called Slashdot Beta.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Every time something is "reasonable", then somebody gets the bright idea 
to "improve" it.  You'll never get them to admit that it was a step 
backwards.

Example, VMS being deprecated ....

:-)