[Elecraft] List Overload

[Dauer, Edward]

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 I believe both kinds of views are valid, this coming from a confessed but unabashed occasional OT-committer.  For some the reflector is a source of technical information and exchange about Elecraft products.  Period.  Nothing wrong with that.  For others – like me – it’s a conversation place for people with a core common interest who eventually come to know each other, some of whom they’ve met personally, some of whom they’ve corresponded with off-list, some of whom are only in the willing or unwilling audience.  I like to think of it as the e-mail equivalent of an OTA net among people who get together now and then.  If that view is also valid, which I believe it is, then there ought to be some license for OT conversation among friends – within reason and not too far from the core common ground.  In addition, if we were absolutely strict about the Elecraft-only technical limit, there would be no room for talk of antennas, baluns (or chokes as the case may be), lightning protection, propagation, power supplies, batteries other than those in Elecraft gear, or a google of other useful and instructional topics.  As a participant I try to keep my OT departures brief, infrequent, and close to the core, with follow-up off list if anyone wants to do that.  I would miss a great deal of the camaraderie intrinsic to amateur radio if we couldn’t occasionally draw outside the lines.  Something like telling off-color jokes during the monthly poker game.

Ted, KN1CBR

 
    Message: 22
    Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 09:48:39 -0700
    From: David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
    To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
    Subject: Re: [Elecraft] List overload - It's actually not good for
    	Elecraft's business.
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    note : personal reply
    
    Wow ... somebody writing an off topic post (it had nothing to do with 
    Elecraft products) to complain about off topic posts.  Talk about 
    dripping with irony.
    
    Besides, it is a trivial exercise to speed read through the topic 
    headers and delete the messages you don't want to see.  I mean really 
    trivial.  I can scan through well over 100 messages messages per day 
    from various lists in about thirty seconds.  You spent enough time 
    writing your post and reading the responses to it to cover about a 
    month's equivalent.