Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-13 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 11:46 -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Stuart Brorson wrote: > > > > I am always pleased by the high level of electronics knowledge > > displayed by the folks on this list. The contributions are very > > interesting and educational. > > > > Agreed. I'm both pleased

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 22:06 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:14:40 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > > > I think it was > > shut down some months ago as announced in this list, and on > > IIRC, it was not shut down but suffered a change of policy. Mere user > mortals like y

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread John E. Perry
> I vote to keep it. Besides the educational value, the great postings > about electronics on geda-user are archived and searchable via > Google. That means that folks who are searching on keywords related > to electronics will come across the gEDA project. The high level of > the disucssions o

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:14:40 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > I think it was > shut down some months ago as announced in this list, and on IIRC, it was not shut down but suffered a change of policy. Mere user mortals like you and me are not allowed to post to the list any more. > www.gpleda.o

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Rages
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Nov 10, 2009, at 1:04 PM, John Griessen wrote: >> PS  I enjoy the OT's here.  They're not so far out, really. > >   Me too.. > >         -Dave Me three. Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markra..

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Dave McGuire
On Nov 10, 2009, at 1:04 PM, John Griessen wrote: > PS I enjoy the OT's here. They're not so far out, really. Me too.. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cg

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread John Griessen
Dave N6NZ wrote: If > geda-user were split I would probably subscribe to gschem-user, > pcb-user, geda-dev, geda-chat (for general electronics and what not) and > not geda-sim. > > So, maybe split the list, but I wouldn't want to chase any of the > current posters off. That's such a small fr

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Dave N6NZ
Stuart Brorson wrote: > Hi -- > >> I wonder if there is a better place to ask simple electronics questions >> like OpAmp behaviour? >> >> I think newsgroup sci.electronics.design is not too bad? > [.] >> What do you think? > > Just my $0.02. > > I am always pleased by the high level of e

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
Stuart Brorson wrote: > > I am always pleased by the high level of electronics knowledge > displayed by the folks on this list. The contributions are very > interesting and educational. > Agreed. I'm both pleased and very, very grateful. > I vote to keep it. Besides the educational value, t

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Stuart Brorson
Hi -- > I wonder if there is a better place to ask simple electronics questions > like OpAmp behaviour? > > I think newsgroup sci.electronics.design is not too bad? [.] > What do you think? Just my $0.02. I am always pleased by the high level of electronics knowledge displayed by the fol

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:56 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > PS.. I found what was causing your assert failure. The gory details were > only sent to geda-dev, but I can copy you if you want. Great! I can read it in the archives with my web-browser. I noticed some days ago that geda-dev is active ag

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread DJ Delorie
*If* you have usenet access: sci.electronics.basic sci.electronics.design There's also: Electronics_101 at Yahoo! Groups But traditionally the "regulars" here (geda-user) occasionally ask design questions, as well as on #geda. Nobody seems to mind as long as it doesn't get out of hand.

Re: gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:26 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > I wonder if there is a better place to ask simple electronics questions > like OpAmp behaviour? > > I think newsgroup sci.electronics.design is not too bad? > > For this list we already have much traffic -- user questions and some > deve

gEDA-user: Purpose of this list

2009-11-10 Thread Stefan Salewski
I wonder if there is a better place to ask simple electronics questions like OpAmp behaviour? I think newsgroup sci.electronics.design is not too bad? For this list we already have much traffic -- user questions and some developer discussion. My personal view is, that it is fine to see the talk a