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Not sure about the mailing list thing. I just started watching sci.electronics.design out of curiosity, and >80% of the posts are just two guys (one of them wi
by InitialLastName 5y ago
Not sure about the mailing list thing. I just started watching sci.electronics.design out of curiosity, and >80% of the posts are just two guys (one of them with an IEEE email address!) who appear to have been waging a years-long politics flame-war. The few posts about, er, electronics design are completely drowned out by self-righteous screaming about Trump, Biden, vaccines, elections and covid.
Now I understand why Google's mail service automatically classifies any alerts the user signs up for from Google's mailing list service as spam.
- extralobe 5y agoOh man. There used to be a third participant in that flamewar, a brilliant analog IC designer whose hobby was ruining s.e.d by posting off-topic political flames and trolling. His participation ended a few years ago when he apparently died of cancer. I say "apparently" because there was no obituary, no funeral, no mourners. His family won't talk about him. He had been so proud of his granddaughter. It's unfortunate because there are/were a lot of talented and knowledgable people on s.e.d who could be talking about circuits instead of flinging dung at each other. Flamewars are an ugly Usenet tradition. Usenet also provides great mitigation tools (killfiles/scorefiles).