On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:12:15 -0400, Tom Mc wrote: > I guess I'm having trouble following this thread. Would someone > mind giving an old guy a summary of what's happening. It seems > that a post to eHam was critical of eHam so the post was > pulled...is that the basics of what's happening.
Folks, There is nothing spooky or scary going on here. I submitted an article on July 12 for publication on eHam. If you know anything about that process it takes time and you also get an auto-generated response telling you that your article "may" or "may not" be selected for front page publication. Given that it has been three weeks, and that other, more recent articles have been published I just *assumed* that mine was not selected for publication. They receive a lot of submissions and that wouldn't have been unusual. So this morning, I sent the link to this list so that even though the story didn't make the front page, other Elecrafter's could read it. In my posting, I included the URL and this one comment: "Perhaps sites that depend on advertising revenue don't like ruffled vendor feathers? :-)" I thought that the little smiley guy :-) conveyed that I was joking and I wasn't actually implying that eHam was doing anything devious in choosing not to publish the article. However, the Articles Manager had a much different take on the matter and proceeded to send me several emails that asked for my "respect" and my "courtesy" or that article would be pulled. I told him deleting the article would be fine with me and he has done that. There were several other messages between us where he sent me the dictionary definition of the word "libel" and such, and ended it all by saying that I was banned from posting articles on eHam until I learn to be more courteous, and that he was deleting any follow-up messages from me, etc. Obviously I'm not thrilled by all this, and his public posting to this list was an obvious attempt to "set me straight" in front of a public audience. I wouldn't have replied at all but I started receiving emails from this list asking why the link on eHam couldn't be reached and what all this was about. I would REALLY appreciate if this could end now. I have always hated OT posts and long, meandering threads that have no value, and this one certainly has none at this point. I apologize to the list for the messages it has already spawned, and hope that you will take my plea to heart and NOT FOLLOW THIS UP. Thanks and see you all on the bands! Vy 73 de Jeff, KE9V _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
