[UK-CONTEST] Important message from the UK Contest Reflector Administrator

[Peter Hobbs]

Mark

Not at all happy with this development - signing up to Yahoo leaves one 
open to spam, unwanted advertising and all the other dross inherent in 
the so-called social networks.  UK-contest provided a welcome respite to 
all of this.  I particularly object to even being unable to read 
contributions unless I sign up to this disaster, which I have no 
intention of doing, for reasons given.

73, Peter G3LET

Mark David wrote:

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>Message From UK Contest list administration
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>Important notice to subscribers of UK Contest.
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>As administrator for the UK Contest reflector the recent debate on UK
>Contest reflector has brought to the attention of the reflector subscribers
>a discussion that has been held off list for over a year now. The key point
>has been whether to offer opportunities for the HF and V/UHF communities to
>collaborate on their relevant topics of interest in their own forum.
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>An additional factor to consider is the current software used for the UK
>Contest reflector which is based on rather dated ‘Mailman’ platform The
>current reflector has served the UK contest community well. In recent
>years, other social platforms with improved functionality and ‘user
>friendliness’ have come to the fore, most noteworthy being ‘Yahoo Groups’, as
>used by many UK and world-wide amateur radio special interest groups.
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>With these two points in mind this notice advises all subscribers to UK
>Contest of the intent to:
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>1. Migrate UK Contest to two new groups on Yahoo each focused on HF and VHF
>respectively.
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>2. By the end of November 2012 to close down the existing UK Contest
>reflector
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>The user may choose to subscribe to either or both Yahoo groups.
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>Migration Plan
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>1st November 2012 - New Yahoo Groups sites open for subscription. Users
>will be responsible for actioning their subscription to the Yahoo Group -
>there will be no invitation process. New subscribers to the existing UK
>Contest reflector will be rejected and informed of the new groups.
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>During November 2012 - All postings to UK Contest will be tagged with a
>reminder message, frequent reminder messages will be posted to UK Contest.
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>30th November 2012 - All posts to UK Contest will be rejected, site archive
>will remain accessible.
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>How to join the new groups
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>Two new groups have been created on Yahoo Groups, one for HF Contesting and
>one for V/UHF (incl. 50MHz) Contesting; all UK Contest members are welcome
>to join either or both of these new groups to continue discussions.
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>To join the HF Contest reflector follow this link:
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>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-hf-contesting
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>To join the V/UHF Contest reflector follow this link:
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>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-vhf-contesting
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>For those unfamiliar with Yahoo Groups, it’s easy to navigate and offers
>extra functionality such as searching, opinion polls, a calendar, photo
>gallery and files section that will potentially add to the reflector
>experience. You may be required to configure an account with Yahoo.
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>If you need help registering on the new reflectors, please contact one of
>the administrators of these  new groups by emailing:
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>uk-hf-contesting-owner at yahoogroups.co.uk
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>or
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>uk-vhf-contesting-owner at yahoogroups.co.uk
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><uk-vhf-contesting-owner at yahoogroups.co.uk>
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>John G4IRN, Chris GM3WOJ and Mark G4MEM are jointly administering these new
>groups. As a reminder these reflectors are open to all interested partie
>and operates independently of the Radio Society of Great Britain.
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>Thank you for your participation on UK Contest Reflector over the years, we
>look forward to seeing you all on the new reflectors.
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>Mark, G4MEM.
>UK Contest Reflector Administrator
>3rd November 2012*
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