[Wswss] A WSWSS requiem and postmortem

[Ralph Bergman]

Hi Neil,

Please do not make any changes to the reflector! If you do we will loose
a
lot of folks. It does a very good job of spreading info and folks have
been
able to keep in touch.

73 Ralph K6TSK

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:25:56 -0800 Neil Jessen  writes:
> Gentlemen:
> 
> I have been trying to send a message to the reflector for several 
> days and it kept getting bounced.  I found out that they (qth.net) 
> were having problems with their system and a lot of the mail wasn't 
> 
> getting through.  I am keeping my fingers crossed that this makes it 
> 
> through this time.
> 
> I was the webmaster for the WSWSS web site for quite a long 
> time.  Since this reflector and the WSWSS web site are important 
> ways 
> of spreading information, I think we need to keep both.  Here is 
> what 
> I propose.  I have called Dave (WA6CGR) and left him a message 
> asking 
> if he would continue to support a website for weak signal.  I will 
> take the current WSWSS web site and take all the references to WSWSS 
> 
> off and clean it all up.  That way it will continue to be a spot 
> where the weak signal community could come for information, nets, 
> beacons, etc.  As far as the reflector is concerned, we cannot just 
> 
> change the name.  If we want a different reflector name, we need to 
> 
> ask for one from qth.com and have it set up for us.  Then one of two 
> 
> things would need to happen.  Everyone who is registered on this one 
> 
> would need to re-register on the new one OR the list administrator 
> could cut and paste your e-mail address from the old list to the new 
> 
> list which is what they call a mass subscription.  The better way is 
> 
> to have each of you do your own, that way there are no errors in the 
> 
> transition.  But this is something that would need to be discussed 
> IF 
> the reflector name is changed.
> 
> So, at this time I am waiting to hear back from CGR to see about him 
> 
> continuing to host a weak signal website.  I have already secured a 
> 
> new URL so the web address would be > 73 for now,
> Neil - N6VHF
> WSWSS Charter Member #17
> 
>