[MilCom] ScanMarine, a new radio comms group

[AllanStern at aol.com]

Since my good friend and former iScanMarine Listowner Jack Painter passed  
away nearly three years ago, there has been no control over the iScanMarine  
group, leaving it vulnerable to spammers and leaving it unable to flourish 
with  new memberships.
 
I have done all I could to adopt the iScanMarine Group, without  success.  
I have had emails with Yahoogroups over and over again for more  than 2 
years and made my argument that the Group should not be left to be taken  over 
by spammers.  Sometimes I got what I thought was an encouraging  response, 
but really never got close to being able to establish a new Listowner  or 
Moderator of the Group.
 
Several different YahooGroups management people have repeated to me their  
argument that because Jack had set the group to allow member email addresses 
to  be hidden, the Poll function of the Group was disabled, so there is no 
way for  members to elect a new Listowner/Moderator. I pleaded that it was 
such a waste  to just let the Group flounder and eventually fail, but my 
pleadings were not  successful.
 
I have created a Group called ScanMarine. Out of respect for Jack, I chose  
a name resembling the name of the group he founded. The site for the group  
is
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScanMarine_ 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScanMarine) .
 
You can join the group by going to 
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScanMarine/join_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScanMarine/join) 
 
Postings to the group will be messages, photographs and files related to  
the US Coast Guard, Search and Rescue (SAR), Civilian vessels, and Navy 
vessels  of all countries. Comms of interest are UHF, VHF and HF communications.
 
I will operate the Group in a hands-on manner, as I do with the other  
several radio-related Yahoogroups that I operate.

AL STERN  Satellite Beach FL
AllanStern at aol.com
_http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MilRadioComms_ 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MilRadioComms) 
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HFmonitors
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FloridaMilcom
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SpaceCoastComms
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