[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Boonton

[David Stinson]

Here I am "a voice in the wilderness" again... sigh.

I'm sorry, John, but this is just another fragmentation
and splintering of what little is left of our community.
You will get a few people at first.
But there is no "cross-pollination" of ideas or
generation of new interest.
Through attrition, the group will eventually become a ghost-town.
That's because few people discover an interest in the group's subject,
because they aren't exposed to it.
There are several mil-radio splinter groups that now languish
and are good examples
I might have developed an interest over the years if I had seen
several posts about these sets. Since I never see any,  I never think 
of it.
Since I don't think of it, I see no reason to go subscribe to it.
Others do the same and the topic eventually "peters-out."

In the end, this splintering is counterproductive and ultimately
self-destructive.  The "delete" key works just as well in
a large community as it does in a small one, so "high noise"
is not a reason to splinter into yet another small group
destined to die out due to attrition.

I know- No one will listen.  I've wasted my breath for years on
this point but by God I'll just waste it again;
It's like WS-19.  When's the last time you saw a discussion thread
on WS-19 on milsurplus?
You don't, because the same handfull of people are over
on their own splinter-group, hashing and re-hashing with few new
ideas because they've isolated themselves.
Heck- even that splinter has been splintered and re-splintered.
There are people here on Milsurplus reading this
right now who would have developed an interest, added new ideas
and done new work had they seen a few threads.
But they didn't, so they go on to other things.

I don't want to offend, John, but every new "yahoo group" someone
makes to splinter-off members from the more general lists is yet 
another
nail in our hobby's coffin.  One of these days,
someone will write the last post on the
"Hallicrafters Radios That Were Used in March When It Was Raining."
yahoo group and wonder where everyone went.
Clue: The two that are left are on the yahoo group about the radios
that were used with it wasn't raining.

73 Dave AB5S