[RTTY] RTTY Reflector

[Jim N7US]

Al,

Your email was distributed by the reflector.  Could the reflector emails be caught in a spam filter on your end?

As moderator, I receive notices of bouncing messages.  They often come in spurts, with several from the same ISP bouncing at the same time.  I don’t recall seeing any notifications for you.

W6WRT made me moderator of the RTTY reflector when he wanted to step down a couple years ago.  This reflector is very different than Yahoo Groups or the increasingly popular Groups.io reflector.  It's old technology, without the features of Yahoo or Groups.io, such as files, HTML, etc.  As moderator, I don’t have a webpage that I can go to for a list of bouncing email addresses.

After the problem created when the owner of the DXLab Yahoo Group died, leaving only a moderator with limited management options, I think it's prudent for all reflectors to have at least two owners (for Yahoo Groups) or moderators (for the contesting.com reflectors, such as RTTY).  Because this reflector has limited options, there's very little to be done by the moderator.  Would one or two like to step forward to be co-moderators?

This group hasn't suffered from a plethora of off-topic posts as some other reflectors have, making the moderator's job easy.

I hesitate to ask, but is there interest in creating a similar reflector on Groups.io?  I'm not aware of one there now.  

Unlike Yahoo Groups, where a reflector can be moved with all its subscribers, messages, etc., that capability doesn't exist for this reflector, so everyone would have to subscribe to a new reflector.

Groups.io has proven itself to be very flexible and reliable.  The 5000+ member N1MM+ Yahoo Group recently moved to Groups.io after problems with delays in messages being forwarded.  The RTTY reflector has just over 1000 members.

73, Jim N7US

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY <rtty-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Al Hanzl
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2018 11:40
To: Ken K6MR <k6mr at gmx.com>
Cc: Dave Barr <barr29 at verizon.net>; cq-contest at contesting.com; NS <nccc-blue at kkn.net>; rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] NS RTTY this Thursday

I (along with others in the area) have not been receiving postings from the RTTY Contesting reflector since Feb 27. This one is the last I received. 
I am getting some postings from individuals only. 
K2AL