[TowerTalk] time to modernize the reflector
Jon Pearl - W4ABC
jonpearl at tampabay.rr.com
Wed Aug 28 23:48:45 EDT 2019
During all this discussion, someone had the forethought to secure a new
reflector.
To wit... https://groups.io/g/towertalk
73,
Jon Pearl - W4ABC
On 8/28/2019 1:48 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:31:03 -0700
> From: Shane Youhouse <kd6vxi at gmail.com>
>
> <The email reflectors have been removed since mid to early 2017 from the
> <contesting.com front page.
>
> <Contesting.com is dying.
>
> <I've emailed the admins about this and never got a response. Tried a
> <couple times.
>
> <Our reflectors (towertalk, top and, rfi and amps are all ones I've subbed
> <to, amps since the grate parasitic debate, circa the late 90s!) will go
> <away as people get older and stop contributing.
>
> <Steve, how many new subscribers do we get now vs two years or so ago. Kind
> <of hard to find the list when uts only referenced by search engines now!
>
> <Anyway, off my soapbox. But seriously, if we want a better reflector, how
> <about getting the reflectors listed on the front page again, and maybe
> <having site Adkins that actually respond to direct emails.
>
> <—Shane
> <KD6VXI
>
> ## Shane just nailed it ! Moving all the e-mail reflectors OFF the contesting.com home page
> is NOT doing anybody any favours. No point in me referring anybody to contesting.com
> when it doesnt do em any good, and they cant access the various e mail reflectors.
>
> ## Its like contesting.com is purposely trying to destroy itself...which it is succeeding.
>
> ## I too emailed the admins about this several times...with no reply. So now all the specific
> groups like AMPS etc, have simply migrated over to groups io and also yahoo, etc, etc, where
> you can post pix..and schematics, and entire books on specific subjects. Not being able to post a
> simple pix or schematic is about as stupid as it gets. Trying to describe something without a pix
> takes some longwinded creative writing skills, and then some. And folks will still get it wrong.
>
> ## contesting.com needs to... re-invent itself...and quick like.
>
> ## go to www.contesting.com right now....and you will see that the entire home page has been frozen
> in time for 2 years. As is, there are better options out there.
>
> Jim VE7RF
>
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