[Amps] AMP Reflector Quality of Information

[Pete Smith]

I don't want to take sides here, as Dick seems to, but I have been on this 
amps reflector since it began.  There are some extraordinarily strong egos 
in the amps community, and some intense bad blood between the participants 
in a feud that now goes back about 10 years.  For many years this feud 
would ebb and flow, and most of us non-feuders either got good with the 
delete key or filtered out the e-mail addresses of the participants.  I did 
the latter, because my theory was that if there was anything being said 
that was of value, then a third party would probably be involved, and I'd 
see the gist of it from things that person posted with quotes from the 
others.  At various times, all of the players had useful things to say, so 
this worked well.

Then the administration of the list changed.  I don't know the details, but 
the new admin decided to take a firmer hand.  Things blew up, he banned 
some people, and a lot of the group's participants moved to the Yahoo 
group.  I probably should sample its throughput to see how the 
signal-to-noise ratio is.  But in any case, what you are seeing is typical 
of what happens when a group fragments - both remaining parts suffer.

73, Pete N4ZR

     At 02:58 AM 3/20/2007, Dick wrote:
>Sure it did. Once knowledgable people are kicked off and only the
>Administrators opinion can be aired the quality of the contributions goes
>down the drain.
>For more interesting contributions concerning the subject: (high) power
>amplifiers see the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ham_amplifiers/ reflector.
>
>Cheers, Dick
>PA3DUV
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Maser" <bmaser at tampabay.rr.com>
>To: "AMPS" <amps at contesting.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:10 AM
>Subject: [Amps] AMP Reflector Quality of Information
>
>
> > Is it just me or has the quality of the content on this reflector gone
> > downhill, bigtime?
> >
> > Bob W6TR
> >
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