Craig, Everything that is posted here can be searched for on Google. Its always unsettling to be doing a search and see your own post come up. They do. Everything that is here goes to www.hard-core-dx.com, and that means Google crawlers hit it. What I am not clear on (and I'm not sure Google would have it in their FAQs) is whether they honor the presence of a "robots.txt" file on a web server. That file lays out rules for what is or is not off limits. Looking at the Internet Wayback Machine (www.archive.org), I see that hard-core-dx.com was last available in November 2005. On or before that date, I could see hard-core-dx as it was for any time starting in the year 2000. Because 11/05 is the cutoff, that means they put robots.txt in place then and prevented archive.org from crawling them. Mike
Craig Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason I am so sensitive on the term is what I have heard from > people like Les. There have been a lot of negative things sent to radio > stations in the past few years and some stations have been so turned off > that they will not even respond to QSL requests any longer. Some > engineers are iriated by DXers in general because of a few. Sending anything other than polite comments and reports directly to a station is out of line and damaging to the DX community. However, stuff posted to a DX list is on our home turf, and station engineers ought to consider that. They are the outsiders here. One reason I read these lists is to see if there is anything happening that would have a negative impact on any of my clients. Any adverse comments simply bounce off. That in itself should more than overbalance any perceived insults. The info here is valuable, not just to DXers. Let's face it, a majority of AM engineers are or were DXers at one point in their life. They understand, or certainly ought to. > I just > would rather be on the safe side. Craig, you are a fellow DXer besides > an engineer, so you know where we are coming from. But others may not. I > just feel a different term will mean the same thing without upsetting > some. I guess it is like saying someone lied or saying they did not tell > the truth. Yes. However.. What happens on the list ought to stay on the list. It's not really meant for public (and radio stations') consumption. Yes, we do have people like Tom Ray in here who occasionally uncloak. And when they read this list, they should certainly realize where they are. I have never looked, but I would hope these posts don't get archived to some web site that will show up in a Google search. When a 10 watt station is overpowering a kilowatt or larger co-channel rig, of course that will raise an eyebrow. Especially since the FCC finds that to be all too common. Any engineer who takes offense ought to rethink that emotion. The comments about complaining directly to the FCC are a far greater turnoff than simply labeling a station in one form or another. Any contact with the FCC should be strictly the decision of some affected station. Referring to the WBAL situation, I truly hope they do file a complaint. Not because of any anti-IBOC bias I harbor, but because it has the potential of affecting their bottom line and therefore radio in general. In a very removed sense, IBOC hiss over WBAL can affect my income if it lowers radio's image in the advertiser community. In no circumstance should any of us file any complaint. I'm not even very comfortable with the occasional report some of us make to the FCC on true cheaters. That's far worse PR for us. The only time I send anything to the FCC is when reports and comments are solicited. Craig Healy Providence, RI _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected] --------------------------------- Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
