[TenTec] New group for Orion

[Jim Lowman]

There have been a number of good points made about this issue.  Without 
taking any particular
side, let me throw in some ideas from direct experience.

How many of you know that there is also a Ten-Tec list at QTH.net?  
Well, there is, and it's
about 500 members strong (I administer that list as well) with very 
little activity.  The other day
I added a sentence to the info page about that at last, basically saying 
that the "real" T-T list is at
contesting.com - come on over!  I can imagine that a lot of the members 
there were told, "You
really should join the T-T list" only to have subscribed to that one 
instead of this one.  I have no
idea how many other T-T lists may be in existence but, as far as I'm 
concerned, this is the "main"
list.

Having looked at the number of members who unsubscribed from this list 
over the past several weeks
(and people unsubscribe for all sorts of reasons; lack of activity and 
too much activity) there is some
sort of trend.  I'm not sure whether they leave because of the Orion 
discussions, which are most welcome
here.  I tend to have little sympathy for those who would rather 
complain on the list than use the
DELETE key or set up filters.

Anyway, this list will keep going, with its present near-800 membership 
or 8.  But, for my money, I'd
rather see all of the activity here; certainly, it's more convenient.

Food for thought; nothing else.

BTW, there has been a worthy suggestion that, if specialty lists like 
Orion, Jupiter, Pegasus and the like
really are necessary, they should also be on contesting.com.  I'm 
willing to take that issue up with the
server owner(s), but I'd think that they would want a lot of 
justification for splitting up this list.

73 de Jim - AD6CW