[SOC] Censorship on QRP-L?

[William Rumball]

First in defense of all lists, email servers and folks in general.... It 
took 4 days to get an email from one local server to another here in the 
great white north. No once but several times.  Stuff happens! Second; I 
have a special button on my keyboard that I use on QRP-L. It is labelled 
'Delete'. I find that 2% of the messages are worth reading. Do I 
unsubscribe? No, the 2% of rational people are worth listening to and I 
learn. What really worries me is the guys on QRP-L - or ham any list for 
that matter - who have more time for the internet than they do for the 
hobby. Come on guys ... use 1 watt, 5 watts, 2000 watts but get on the 
air. The internet is not a substitute for the real thing.

Bill, VA3OL
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Bob Nielsen wrote:

><rant>
>
>I've noticed recently that there appears to be selective moderation 
>(i.e., censorship) on the QRP-L list.  My posts (which are fairly rare) 
>get held for moderator approval which usually takes several hours, but I 
>have a couple which are more than a day old that haven't shown up.  I 
>still get a lot of mail from the list, which indicates to me that I 
>and a few others are being singled out.  I sent an email to Jim Lowman 
>(the moderator) asking why this is, but he has chosen not to answer me.
>
>I am vehemently opposed to such behaviour (it supposedly was going to be
>an unmoderated list) and if it continues, I will unsubscribe from
>that list.
>
>I don't recall ever sending anything to the QRP-L list that anyone would 
>find offensive, although a bit of mild cynicism may have krept into my 
>messages a few times.
>
>In case you can't tell, I am somewhat pissed over this.  I was going to
>send this message to QRP-L, but I realized that it would probably never
>get onto the list.
>
>If anyone has an explanation, I'd like to hear it.
>
></rant>
>
>73, Bob N7XY
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