[Scan-DC] QTH.Net Needs Our Help

Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:26:34 -0500

I agree 100%.  I subscribe to several list on Yahoo and "own" several
others.  The amount of advertising on Yahoogroup list is incredible and
now I've noticed some "pop-up" ads as well.  I've sent a small donation
via PayPal to Allen and hope that others, who use this list MUCH more
than I do, will do the same.
73
Paul / W4ATN

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:21:01 -0000 "MidAtlanticDXer"
<[email protected]> writes:
> -> the better option is to take this list to Yahoogroups
> 
> The best option is to stay where you are at on QSL/QTH.  Why?
> 
> 1) No advertising attached to each email.  Those HTML advertisements 
> take up
> a lot of space, increasing the size of your download (a factor for 
> those on
> dialup connections)
> 
> 2) Some serious SPAM filters are in place on QSL/QTH. Yahoo has 
> some, but
> not to the same level as QSL/QTH.
> 
> 3) Yahoo says they don't give out your email address, but standby 
> for
> advertising (aka SPAM) to be sent to you, in addition to that sent 
> attached
> to every email posted to the list.
> 
> 4) This is the very best reason:  To support the hobby that we all 
> love.  Al
> Waller has been spending literally thousands of dollars of his own 
> money
> each year to keep the hobby going in addition to the small time
> contributions from others (nowhere near the real number of users).  
> If you,
> and everyone else, were to send just $10 a year, QSL/QTH would never 
> need to
> ask for money. So, skip the lunchtime trip to McD's twice a year, 
> and you
> will help the hobby, keep the service running, help protect yourself 
> from
> SPAM and a bunch of other benefits.
> 
> I for one am willing to pay for a service that I use everyday.  I 
> have
> already sent my check to Al as well as a letter thanking him for all 
> that he
> has done.  I subscribe to several lists on his service and the very 
> least I
> can do is give something back.
> 
> Well, that is my two-cents worth.
> 
> 
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