Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #12020
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Brian Boeckmann" bboys@win.bright.net
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:02:20 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: A little irrelevant..................
I am just getting started in the BEAM scene. However, I would be VERY
interested in just LISTENING to an advanced mailing list. I don't believe
any sort of tests,etc. should be required to sign up for the advanced list.
Just inform anyone asking simple questions to politely ask them on the other
list. Also, I am signed up for the spinal column mailing list already, but
there is no traffic whatsoever. Maybe if everyone interested signed up on
that list, things could get rolling.
Brian Boeckmann
Steve,
>
>I've also considered leaving the list. I've learned very little from this
>list as it is mostly people asking simple electronics questions. Not that
>it's a bad thing...it's just that I'm a little beyond the basics. Maybe
the
>answer would be to have another list. One that allows the more advanced
>BEAMer's a chance to discuss their passions and thoughts without having to
>stop and explain the basics in order to talk about the advanced stuff. We
>seem to have hit a brick wall with developments lately. I see people
>spending more time explaining that if you increase a resistor or a cap in
an
>RC circuit you increase the time it takes for the cap to charge, when they
>should be using that biological neural net for something that pushes it's
>limit. Think about the future, not perpetually reviewing the past. Damn,
>I'm ranting...sorry. Yes, I think that an 'ADVANCED' BEAM mailing list
would
>be a good solution to the problem, but how are we going to determine who
>gets on it? Set up a test? Or go by who has been here the longest? Or
>just allow anybody on...but refuse to answer the 'basic' questions? How do
>you segregate (bad word, but the only one I can think of) the two? How do
>we discern who is worthy and who is new? Either way...if someone wants to
>start one up, I'll be there on the front line!
>
>Dane
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