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

[David Froble]

David Froble wrote:
> 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 ....
> 
> :-)

Poor form to reply to my own post, but I thought of a great example ..

Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Windows Vista -> Windows 7 -> Windows 8

Now I run XP on a few systems, because lots of new software won't run on 
2000, but, ??vista??, and beyond ??