You are welcome to start your own forum. I am sure the owners of this
reflector will even let you promote it here - once or twice.
I find the archives of this reflector and others, located at
www.contesting.com, to provide everything I need. Use Google if you need
better search tools.
Cq-contest is the "water cooler" of choice for kibitzing about contesting.
That's why it is "better".
Randy, K5ZD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> bob@reconstructinghistory.com
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:36 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] LOTW & Forums vs. "reflectors"
>
> I might be painting myself as a total noob here, but...
>
> For the life of me, I can't see what's so difficult about
> signing up with LOTW. Follow the steps, blip, blam, wait for
> the postcard. Maybe it's just me, having been involved with
> online communications since the days when BBSs reigned
> supreme, you thought 9600 was *way* fast, the Internet was
> still something for government and universities, and you
> weren't a real man unless you used undocumented DOS calls in
> your batch files. ;) Those days are long gone, and most of
> that knowledge is no longer useful (that which was not
> forgotten, anyway), but the fact remains that it ain't rocket science.
>
> Also, I find Forums-based discussion groups far, far superior
> to email reflectors like this. In the first, if I want to
> save something, it's a matter of highlight, CTL+C, open
> favorite WP app, CTL+V. Save as desired.
>
> But why clutter my machine? With Forums, the thread and all
> posts are right there, accessible with a couple of
> mouse-clicks. More to my liking, I can access them from
> anywhere I can get Internet access anytime I want, so I'm not
> dependent on items of interest I've archived as outlined in
> Paragraph 2, above, if I'm not at my home machine. I don't
> have to A. remember where the email list archives are
> located, B. remember when the thread of interest took place,
> C. use a crappy search function (MailMan's is a right bitch
> unless you're very careful with the Search strings). I can
> post images to explain concepts not easily elucidated by
> prose. And - importantly - I don't have my email Inbox
> cluttered by 15 bajillion messages about which I couldn't
> care less. With Forums, I read the topics I want when I want.
> All things considered, for me at least Forums win out.
>
> Anyway, that's this noob contester's point of view; take with
> however many grains of salt you wish. =D
>
> 73 Bob NQ3X
>
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