[Noisebridge-discuss] an interesting potentiometer failure mode (tin whiskers!)

[Larry Platzek]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Taylor Alexander wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:46:43 -0800
> From: Taylor Alexander <tlalexander at gmail.com>
> To: rfmerrill at berkeley.edu
> Cc: Susan Werner <heinousbutch at gmail.com>,
>     NoiseBridge Discuss <Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] an interesting potentiometer failure mode
>     (tin whiskers!)
> 
> There's been lots of interesting articles over the past year. I'd seen
> these before, as I have many articles. Of course not everyone has seen
> them, but the same could be said about many, many things posted on the
> internet. All I asked for was why the OP felt like sharing them. She posted
> them without making any effort to explain why she thought they were worth
> putting in my inbox. If the articles were new, posting them would make
> sense - we could assume that the author wanted to call out attention to
> something urgent. But when something has been kicking around the web for a
> year, the author seems to be assuming that we didn't already know about it.
> I guess my point was: "Explain why the F you post something when you post
> something, don't just link us to old articles without saying why". Not to
> be combative, but to encourage more thoughtful posts.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Robert "Finny" Merrill <
> rfmerrill at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> I found them interesting.
>>
>
Why not "any" link not just "old" links saying why you think is interesting?


Larry Platzek  larryp at inow.com
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