[Icom] Banter and bandwidth - A different point of view

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Group -

As some of you might have noticed, I am an infrequent "contributor" to this 
reflector. 

What you may not know is that I delete over 90% of the incoming messages from 
this list without ever reading them. (Thanks to those of you who enable me to 
do so through your use of good, meaningful subject lines. To those who don't 
. . .  #@#$$ #&%%$!)

However, every now and then, I open a message, in a thread with a subject 
like this one, even though I know I should delete it!

After all of the Pro stuff that has been going on here over the past 2 (20?) 
years, I have been questioning the value of continuing to subscribe to this 
list. See, I don't own a Pro and those postings are of no interest to me. 
Especially the ones where hair splitting rises to an art form! So, I delete 
the "Pro" stuff.

But, in any case, it is my considered opinion that ALL posters need to 
exercise some discretion when making a decision to post, or reply to, a 
message here. Over the years, I have noticed that some list members seem to 
be unable to let ANY threads pass without sharing their opinion. I suspect 
that many others rarely post here because they are content to simply observe 
the goings on. Regardless of that, I am certain that a good percentage of 
what goes on here is unnecessary and is, to put it bluntly, useless banter. 
And, yes, I do know that such banter is a big part of what Ham radio is all 
about! It just seems to me that each instance of "useless banter" here is 
different from the on-air variety because here it deposits a message into 
hundreds of inboxes and that result should be considered beforehand! It is 
obvious to me that, in some cases, the result of such consideration is 
ignored or missing altogether. Otherwise, why would some threads require an 
"official" closing?

That said, feel free to blast away because, for me, this thread is closed . . 
.
But, given past history, you had better hurry!

Regards,

Bill