On 26 Jul 2011 at 12:26, Dick Flanagan wrote: > On 7/26/2011 4:16 AM, Steve Adell - KF2TI wrote: > > Please remember..tghe first post is NEWS, > > everything after that is CHAT > > So questions, follow-up, clarifications, retractions should be posted on > a different reflector.
Yes that is correct for the simple reason is everyone and I repeat EVERYONE has an opinion, a comment and a retraction and if all 1400 subscribers did so, nothing would get posted > > > If you are going to post something that you > > know is going to generate lots of responses, > > PLEASE go to your DX-CHAT reflector > > So if we have valid news that may generate controversy, require > clarification or need updating as a situation progresses, we shouldn't > post it here at all. No, do what everyone has done for better than 12 years post here and state..Please reply direct or through DX- CHAT > > > Thank you in advance for your understanding > > and co-operation > > It makes no sense to me which is why most news is posted on the CHAT > reflector. Actually it's not, at least according to the archives > > The bifurcation of NEWS/CHAT was common on the Internet twenty-five > years ago when USENET was the standard structure, but it didn't work > well then and with the advent of better tools it works even less better > know. You can just look at the NEWS/CHAT message counts to see how well > it is (not) working here. We are not about counting messages..that was never the purpose of these reflectors It is about providing a needed service to the DX community We split them for a simple reason and that is that a hand full of people will take over the reflector and dominate everything to the determent of all..the two you see suddenly popping up recently are two of the biggest offenders It was decided in 1998 that this reflector when we took it over would be for news and not conversation as many dx'ers don not care for politics or being told things they have no interest in..hence the CHAT reflector This was never designed as a massive means of allowing people to vent, there are other less "restrictive" ones for that, but in the 13 years this has been up..95% of the original subscribers are still with us, so we must be offering a viable product Hope this helps Steve > > Dick > -- > Dick Flanagan K7VC > [email protected] > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to > > [email protected] > > In the message body put either > > unsubscribe dx-news > > or > > subscribe dx-news > > This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [email protected] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-news or subscribe dx-news This is the DX-NEWS reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
