On Dec 18, 2012, at 2:34, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote: I have already tried to promote an alternative forum for the more wide ranging topics by starting the DECtec mailing list which is a wider overarching enthusiast list for DEC/Compaq/HP users. In spite of many people from this list also being also subscribed to DECtec it doesn't seem to have worked all that well. The list is mostly silent. I think the problem is that people don't intentionally post off topic here. It always seems to start out as HECnet/DECnet related and then and some point wanders off the trail following a squirrel. -brian