[SECC] Fw: [usve] Petition to eliminate Morse code (long)

[Dan/W4NTI]

Perhaps your right Ben.  Its 'all' trolls.  I doubt it tho.  It really is
irrevelant tho.  If BPL is implemented the only DXing going on will be on
432 and above.

Dan/W4NTI

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Coleman" <oloryn at benshome.net>
To: <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SECC] Fw: [usve] Petition to eliminate Morse code (long)


> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:45:54 -0500, Dan/W4NTI wrote:
>
> >Nice post Ben,  unfortunatly it is a bunch of crap.  You see the 'new
> >breed',  the scum following the NCI goons, intentionally want to turn
> >amateur radio into CB.
> >
> >Go read the newsgroups.  See what kind of help they want.  They know it
all.
> >Didn't you know that?
>
> Oh, believe me, I've read the newsgroups, but I don't really consider
> rec.radio.amateur.* newsgroup activity representative of the ham
> community at large.  I don't think I've ever seen a bigger
> concentration of trolls (on both side of the code argument) anywhere in
> my life than in rec.radio.amateur.misc and .policy newsgroups.  I've
> noted for a long time that there is a small segment of the ham
> community who seem to think that vociferous argument ought to be the
> major ham activity.  They're loud, brash, obnoxious and attract a lot
> of attention, and they all seem to have descended on rra.misc and
> rra.policy.  Poke your head in there awhile, and you'll be convinced
> that we should add a new section to the written tests on screwy
> argument techiniques, simply so new hams will be able to keep up.  But
> I don't think rra.* is really representative of the hobby at large any
> more, if it ever was.  The trolls,the spammers, and the multiple
> misplaced ForSale posts have chased most of the ordinary hams away.
>
> I'm sure a few of those posting the 'we're going to turn ham radio into
> CB' are serious.  I think most are simply trolls, trying to aggravate
> the opposition and raise the noise level higher (which I thought would
> be quite a trick until I saw what the spammers have done to .misc
> lately).  For some reason, USENET attracts the kind of idiots who find
> that fun.  But I think it would be a huge mistake to take USENET troll
> activity as a reason to give up elmering new hams.
>
> Ben
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