[CQ-Contest] LOTW & Forums vs. "reflectors"

[George Fremin III]

>  But why clutter my machine?  With Forums, the thread and all posts
> are right there, accessible with a couple of mouse-clicks.  More to
> my liking, I can access them from anywhere I can get Internet access
> anytime I want, so I'm not dependent on items of interest I've
> archived as outlined in Paragraph 2, above, if I'm not at my home
> machine.  I don't have to A. remember where the email list archives
> are located,

You have to remember where the forum is on the Internet.  
BTW for a quick link to the lists that run on contesting.com 
go here:

http://www.contesting.com/

And then follow the link in the left menu area.


> C. use a crappy search function (MailMan's is a right bitch unless
> you're very careful with the Search strings).


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Several years ago we added another version of the archives
that have a much better (in my view) look and feel.  These 
also have a built in indexing system that allows you to search
the archives fairly well.  Of course you can also use Google to 
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-- 
George Fremin III - K5TR
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