[Milsurplus] Members requesting documents.

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Sun Jun 9 18:37:36 EDT 2013


This was received from a very prominent person in the vintage Mil radio
circles.

I believe it is very typical of those running the Group in question. IMO,
the fault is with the Group Owner and (maybe) Moderator(s), and his
IDIOTIC policies, not the members in question.

I would suggest anyone considering providing any information to that
Group, as a public service, carefully consider whether it will, in fact,
be readily available. I believe that archive, WHICH I HELPED FOUND, and
sitll has hundreds of my documents and other material, is NOT in the
hobby's interest.

YMMV,

-John

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> Hey, I have read less intelligent questions in that group...when I read
> it, which isn't very often...
>
> On 6/9/2013 6:08 PM, Wireless-Set-No19-owner at yahoogroups.com wrote:
>> We are getting a little concerned that Membership of this Group may be
>> seen by some solely as a means of gaining access to the Document
>> Archive. This is not what was originally envisaged; it was intended that
>> (all) members would from time to time participate in the various
>> technical discussions that arise.
>>
>> There are a number of individuals who make download requests from time
>> to time but who have never contributed to any discussion over a period
>> of some years, and in some cases have never submitted a posting at all.
>>
>> Clearly it would be ridiculous to expect every member to take part in
>> every discussion that arises, and that is not what we expect. At the
>> same time we are becoming apprehensive that there are some members whose
>> sole reason for joining was to obtain downloads, and we are beginning to
>> see this as an abuse of membership.
>>
>> For those who realise that they might be in the category identified
>> above we would ask a couple of questions: (1) do you never have any
>> queries that other members might be able to help resolve, and (2) where
>> others raise questions do you never have any information that would help
>> them find the right answers?
>>
>> We want to encourage "silent" members to be more active on the Group,
>> and we may consider limiting the number of downloads available to
>> members who show no inclination to take part in Group discussions.
>>
>> Group Moderators.
>
>




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