[CW] Copy of email I just sent to QRP-L "management"

[oldtimer]

After many years I have quit the QRP-L list. It no longer has as its focus 
low power radio. Enough is enough!

73 de Jim, K5ROV

James (Jim) Parsons, CMSgt, USAF, Ret.
Ham for over 60 years, 80 % CW, 10 % digital, 10 % SSB
ARMS, ARRL,  Ex: W1RLA, K5FBB, K4FEO,
SV0WN (Crete), SV0WN (Rhodes), DL4NC, DL4JP, KA2FC (Japan) ,
KA2JP (Japan).
John 3-16


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Tanton" <n4xy at earthlink.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>; 
<argonaut_users_group at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 11:26 PM
Subject: [CW] Copy of email I just sent to QRP-L "management"


> Consider that rejected email to be my resignation from the list. Judging 
> by the consensus at the NoGA QRP meeting we held today, if you do not stop 
> all the BS going on, you're going to be getting a LOT of other departures. 
> THAT discussion we had today at our monthly meeting was the origin of my 
> comment. It just seemed to me that-if you were not going to steer things 
> into a more relevant discussion-someone needed to. I suppose your 
> rejecting it was the proverbial straw for me.
>
> I've been on this reflector for a long time. It [apparently] no longer 
> represents Low Power Radio, but rather has degenerated into a lengthy, 
> drawn out bitch session about band plans, the ARRL, and other somewhat 
> related-but GROSSLY over-threaded subjects that are not worth the time it 
> takes to delete all of them. I'm very sorry to see the state this 
> reflector has devolved into.
>
> Managing a reflector is a difficult, thankless task but altogether 
> necessary task. My advice would be to figure out how to do it or pass it 
> on. This is not the 1st time there have been threads that just seemed to 
> run on and on like this, but this has been the worst-and the first time I 
> felt the need to comment this negatively.
>
> For those on the NoGA Reflector, my rejected email is listed below:
>
> Title:   Re: [QRP-L]  whining, proposals, etc. etc. ad nauseum
>
> Is it just me, or would anybody else like to get back to Low Power radio 
> and other RELATED topics?
>
>
> 72/73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy at earthlink.net>
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