Re: Topics Moderator note

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Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hey!  The pupman.com site is updated every 5 minutes.  It's just that the
facade hasn't been updated in a while. :-)

Chip

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> HI,
>
> At 08:36 PM 7/18/2005, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > >  It also allows threads like the 7.1 Hz thing to go on (even though
> > > officially off topic)
> >
> >Huh?   Please clarify.   What exactly is off topic?
>
> A few months ago we had a big list vote on "wireless energy
> transmission".  Since this subject had been addressed "so many" times
> and always seemed to turn into a flamming mess, we voted on if we
> should just get rid of this one topic since it was so troublesome and
> disruptive on the Tesla list...
>
> The vote turned out that "wireless energy transmission" should be off
> topic for this list.  It is the only topic ever to be voted on...
>
>
> >And it's not "7.1Hz thing."  The thread is about Tesla's World System.
> >Driven by a huge tesla coil, of course.  Which made it automatically
> >on-topic, I had assumed. (Otherwise sparks from tesla coils would be off
> >topic here as well, since sparks are not tesla coils.)
> >
> > > As always, the subject IS "Tesla coils" and "nothing else"...
> >
> >Really?   Then I'm in the wrong place.   The webpage says "tesla coils and
> >their use," not "tesla coils and nothing else."
> >
> >If the forbidden topics have changed, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE update the
> >website.  I had assumed that the whole point of pupman list was to discuss
> >tesla coils and their applications and experiments ...such as the main
> >application for which they were invented in the first place.
>
> Since your question did bring out some new issues and new
> information, I let it go.  Happily, the problems of the past have not
> seemed to plague the thread this time.
>
>
> >Also, please make things more clear on the website.  Right now it says:
> >
> >    "Topics such as the Tunguska Explosion, free energy, antigravity, etc.,
> >     are not discussed."
> >
> >If pupman users are hostile to discussions of Tesla's Wardenclyffe machine
> >and his "world system," and if these are officially off topic, this
> >is a VERY important bit of information that needs to be on the web in a
> >prominent place, such as part of the above list.
>
> The site www.pupman.com is sort of like the Mona Lisa, it has not
> been updated in many years ;O)))  In fact, it looks just like it did
> when "I" joined....  Maybe we should revisit the site and put a smile
> on her face this time ;-))  But they say you should not repaint classics...
>
> Cheers,
>
>          Terry
>
>
>