I understand where you are coming from, but the reality is that people are going to have their issues and if they will take a minute to follow the threads they will have a chance to be enlightened. This list is moderated, even though it seems real time, postings are reviewed and the worst of them are filtered out.
Let me illustrate. Our frequent contributor, Nate WY0X, had some real misgivings about D-STAR initially and he and I had some pretty lengthy, and sometimes very blunt, discussions on this list and others about many of the topics you list. I was a little ahead, timeline wise, on having resolved them for myself and as Nate had time to study out the issues, he discovered answers that worked for him and is now a major contributor to the body of knowledge newer (and in some cases) D- STAR users and admins need. Had he not been able to bring up these issues, he might not have gone further and become the D-STAR advocate that he is. I get tired of addressing the same old arguments as well, but we have to allow people their questions and opinions, providing persuasive arguments for them to look at D-STAR in a different light. Someday, someone may make a comment that sparks an idea in someone who can implement, and do it right. If we throttle all "non-positive" comments then we may miss out on a great opportunity. Almost all of us want everyone to see things "our way" and have an upbeat message. Life doesn't work that way and frankly we're probably better for it. Someone once said, "If we were all the same, all of us but one would be redundant." I am on most of the major D-STAR mailing lists and this is good for getting the pulse on what people are thinking. There are different camps and different positions, but D-STAR has been growing steadily the couple of years through all the debate, "naysayers", and dramatics. If people keep developing new applications and implementations of D- STAR, that hold true to the basic D-STAR standard, I believe we have many years of growth to go .... On May 22, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Tom Power wrote: > > > > I have a great idea: > > Why don't all of the DStar naysayers/bashers start their own lists > on yahoo and move their discussion over to a different list. These > discussions are getting old, and frankly are a turn off for any > newbie to Dstar (I heard from one recently about this list) that has > just joined the list and see everyone arguing. If I want to argue I > can go to work or argue with the XYL. > > Seems like we need the following yahoo groups to keep all this stuff > off of this list: > > Dstar vs Apco25 Discussion List > Dstar is too expensive list > Dstar is Icom list > Bashing Robin Cutshaw List (ya know I like ya Robin <smile>) > Dstar Whining and Troll List (anything that doesn't fit above) > > Please folks, lets have a positive discussion of Dstar on these lists. > > Everyone have a great Memorial Day Weekend (in the U.S.) > > Tom > W8RED > > John Hays Amateur Radio: K7VE [email protected] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
