[UK-CONTEST] RSGB Contest Committee

[Peter Bowyer]

On 22 June 2010 12:50, Dave Sergeant <dave at davesergeant.com> wrote:
>
> It doesn't really matter, although as an HF operator with very little
> interest in VHF having seperate lists would be better.
>
> The blacksheep list dates from the time when the VHF contest site was
> hosted at blacksheep. It uses the old Majordomo software which is also
> extremely ancient. The LF reflector is as far as I am aware the only
> very active list remaining on blacksheep, when it works it is fine but
> all contact with the blacksheep organisers seems to have vanished.

You're addressing them (him) now - I get (and respond to) regular
requests from G3WKL for assistance with issues on the LF list. I agree
that it's been left pretty much to its own devices for a long time,
though, and the software is a bit 20th Century.

> With the merger of the HF and VHF contest committees and merging of
> sites under the rsgb domains there does seem to be some merit in
> merging them, or maybe setting up a new VHF one at contesting.com to
> replace the blacksheep one. Having to subscribe to two seperate lists
> if your interest is in both surely is a trivial issue, though I suspect
> there will always be a measure of cross posting.

But there's no reason that independent discussion groups should have
to mimic the organisational convenience of the RSGB... they can, but
they don't have to...

There are many, many more ways of communicating online than there were
back in 1995 when I registered blacksheep.org. The lists there will
probably continue to exist, but I'm not putting in any time promoting
them.

Peter G4MJS

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