[VHFcontesting] The 222MHz reflector...

[Marshall-K5QE]

After some chatter about 222 WAS, Jay-N1AV asked if an email reflector 
would be helpful.  I suppose that I should have acted instantly to 
create such a reflector.  However, I wanted to see if others thought it 
was a good idea.  Big Mistake, that.  Bill-ND0B created one on groups.io 
called 222MHz.  Bill believes that the Reply To button should be set to 
return every post to the entire group.  This is the default of 
groups.io, but it is easy to change.  My email client has a Reply To 
List button if you want to send to everyone.  I would suppose that other 
email clients have a similar button.  Hence, if you want a post to go to 
everyone, you need only Reply To List rather than Reply.

This setting has caused me and many others a lot of trouble. Proprietary 
information and information / comments that are meant for a single 
person are revealed to the entire group.  It has happened to most of us, 
I feel certain.  I do not support FFMA any more because of this problem 
and Bill's insistence that "His Way" was the "Only Way".

Bill claims that almost all of the reflectors that he reads have the 
Reply To set to Group.  I checked and I cannot find a single major VHF 
reflector that is set this way.  Moon-Net, the VHF Reflector, the 
VHFContesting reflector, the Southeast VHF Society Reflector, the 
Central States VHF reflector, and the Pacific Northwest VHF Society 
reflector all have the Reply To set to Sender, not Group.  To me, the 
evidence is clear.

I have asked Bill nicely, twice, to change this setting, but he 
refuses.  Hence I have two paths.

1)I can set up another 222 reflector with the Reply To set to sender  OR
2)I can just ignore his group and work on 222 via email.

Both of these have drawbacks.  What do 222 operators in general think is 
the right approach?

Thanks for your advice....

73 Marshall K5QE