[Elecraft] eHam Article

[Jeff Davis]

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