[TUHS] Puzzled about COFF

[Dan Cross]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 9:59 AM Douglas McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> I subscribe to the TUHS mailing list, delivered in digest form. I do not remember having subscribed to COFF, and am not aware of how to do so. Yet COFF messges come in my TUHS digest. How does COFF differ from TUHS and how does one subscibe to it (if at all)?

Whereas TUHS is specific to Unix history, COFF (Computing
Old-Fashioned Facts---not the real acronym, but one I just made up,
I'm afraid) is more general. When a thread veers too far from Unix
history for TUHS, it will often be redirected to COFF; a way to do
this is to send a followup message, addressing TUHS in the Bcc: header
(to let folks know it's moving) and directly Cc: COFF, which is
possibly why one may see the occasional COFF message, despite not
being subscribed.

I believe that Warren subscribes people manually to both lists.

        - Dan C.