Some members of another group I am a member too felt harrassed and sent a protest. Sometimes we got too many announcements and no real news, so it became tiresome. Most mails were pdf's with large detailed images, which was quite a burden for slow modems.
73, Jose, CO2JA --- Andrew O'Brien wrote: > I am guessing that it was taken down due to violation of Yahoo rules. > Several people have written to me privately complaining about what > they perceived as violations. I refrained from doing anything because > the group was in some sense a competitor to my digitalradio group. > Competition is good, so I did not want to do anything that would imply > I am biased . The issues raised were related to multiple cross > posting and frequent solicitations to join the Illinois group, often > after they had asked for the solicitations to stop. > > The owner made some good contributions here but seemed to get a bit > lost at times, a few times items I posted here were later re-posted as > new items by this person. > > Since the Illinois group was activated and undertook major PR efforts, > postings to this group dropped about 40%. Perhaps we will see some > increased use here. > > Andy K3UK > Owner -Digitalradio > > > > -- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "WD8ARZ" <wd8...@...> wrote: >> My last one from them was: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jerry - N9LYA" Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:18 PM >> Subject: [illinoisdigitalham] HARDS NEWSLETTER >> >> Not showing as a listing anymore either. Maybe a name change? >> >> 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "expeditionradio" <expeditionra...@...> >> To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:54 PM >> Subject: [digitalradio] illinoisdigitalham? >> >> >>> Anyone know what happened to illinoisdigitalham? >>> >>> Bonnie KQ6XA > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at > http://www.obriensweb.com/sked > > > Recommended software: Winwarbler, FLDIGI, DM780, or Multipsk > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > VI Conferencia Internacional de Energía Renovable, Ahorro de Energía y Educación Energética 9 - 12 de Junio 2009, Palacio de las Convenciones ...Por una cultura energética sustentable www.ciercuba.com
