[Beowulf] Re: "hobbyists"

[saville at comcast.net]

I respectfully request that you take conversations about washing machines and other non_beowulf related topics off to some other mailing list.  I have plenty of email to delete without having the load increased by irrelevant discussions on this one.

Many thanks,

Gregg


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From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
> 
> > When i just walked previous week into a shop and my sister was interested in 
> > a new washing machine,
> > i pointed her to the fact that the thing she was interested in, was eating 
> > 3.8 kW, versus the 100 euro more expensive
> > thing next to it was eating 1.14 kW. It is something that only very few will 
> > notice.