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I believe both kinds of views are valid, this coming from a confessed but
unabashed occasional OT-committer. For some the reflector is a source of
technical information and exchange about Elecraft products. Period. Nothing
wrong with that. For others – like me – it’s a conversation place for people
with a core common interest who eventually come to know each other, some of
whom they’ve met personally, some of whom they’ve corresponded with off-list,
some of whom are only in the willing or unwilling audience. I like to think of
it as the e-mail equivalent of an OTA net among people who get together now and
then. If that view is also valid, which I believe it is, then there ought to
be some license for OT conversation among friends – within reason and not too
far from the core common ground. In addition, if we were absolutely strict
about the Elecraft-only technical limit, there would be no room for talk of
antennas, baluns (or chokes as the case may be), lightning protection,
propagation, power supplies, batteries other than those in Elecraft gear, or a
google of other useful and instructional topics. As a participant I try to
keep my OT departures brief, infrequent, and close to the core, with follow-up
off list if anyone wants to do that. I would miss a great deal of the
camaraderie intrinsic to amateur radio if we couldn’t occasionally draw outside
the lines. Something like telling off-color jokes during the monthly poker
game.
Ted, KN1CBR
Message: 22
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 09:48:39 -0700
From: David Gilbert <xda...@cis-broadband.com>
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] List overload - It's actually not good for
Elecraft's business.
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note : personal reply
Wow ... somebody writing an off topic post (it had nothing to do with
Elecraft products) to complain about off topic posts. Talk about
dripping with irony.
Besides, it is a trivial exercise to speed read through the topic
headers and delete the messages you don't want to see. I mean really
trivial. I can scan through well over 100 messages messages per day
from various lists in about thirty seconds. You spent enough time
writing your post and reading the responses to it to cover about a
month's equivalent.
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