[CW] Why so many groups?

[Ed Tanton]

It's more of a power trip thing Bill. THAT Forum is not discussing the
things ***I*** want them to discuss/not doing things the way ***I*** want
them done/or simply ***I*** am not running things. so I'm going to start one
of ***my*** own. Etc. etc. Classic human response.

 

 

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From: cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Bill Clarke
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:18 PM
To: cw at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [CW] Why so many groups?

 

Everyday I check several CW forums. Among them is the Brass Pounders, CW
Bugs, SolidCpyCW, and SKCC all found on Yahoo Groups. I then check SKCC's
forum, the RadioTelegraphy Forum, and several CW mail lists on QTH. There
are others as well, but I won't list all of them here. I am sure you get the
idea by now. 

 

A large percentage of the traffic is repeated on two or more places and
involves various contests or events and welcome messages to new comers.
There is very little in the line of traffic about the hardware used - but,
there have been forever long postings about various aspects of RST or AK vs
SK, etc.

 

I recommend that a single group, forum, list be selected for all of it. One
stop shopping, if you will.  A PHP type forum would be my choice, such as
SKCC or RadioTelegraphy. However, neither currently carry much traffic - and
RadioTelegraphy would need to develop or expand into several traffic
categories.

 

The advantage of the PHP type forum is the search capabilities and ease of
browsing for posts made since the user's last visit.

 

Of course, it may just be me. Maybe I am the only op around that doesn't
really enjoy visiting a number of sometimes mediocre places when a single
full service location could do it all. Kind of like a big-box store which is
a destination, versus ten smaller stores at varied locations.

 

A really good PHP type forum could have categories for SKCC, contests,
hellos, keys, antennas, or whatever. Perhaps this idea could be added to
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php - which is already a great place to visit.

 

Something to think about and discuss. 

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