For years I was on only [email protected], then i saw a post there
crossposted to this list and joined it. In the last few days I have
added 3 more Drake lists. Minor inconvenience for great information.
73 de W3NU
On 8/14/2010 09:13, john wrote:
Curmudgeonly John here! (Thom is not the only one)
Of course the lists are valuable and I'm eternally grateful for people
like Garey who do so much to help us all. And of course it's the
intent of lists to provide a place to ask questions of any level and
to share experiences good and bad. That's never in question.
My comment stems from the fact that having been around since the the
first old radio list....and seeing that split into a list for
virtually every stripe, color and model of old ham radio, we're now
seeing duplicates and triplicates of each of these. The result is,
the need to subscribe to 3 versions of lists for the same topic (which
often contain a high percentage of crosspostings) or miss a discussion
because it's happening on reflector #4 of the Blue HamScratchi1 Model
100 list, and you're only subscribed to reflectors #1, #3 and #5.
The ultimate example of this are there innumerable Heathkit lists,
where they're subdivided not only by model number, but by people who
like list moderator #1 and people who don't like list moderator #1,
reflectors that allow Ebay postings and don't allow Ebay postings and
on and on and on....
This is progress?
Anyway, I apologize for fanning the flames, and I'll not post more on
this topic. It's a beautiful world out there!
John K5MO
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