I see that the owner of this list has no intention of changing to yahoo.
That is his decision and his right. I do not agree but that is up to him.
I do say that all the talk about the difficulty with yahoo though is just
that, talk.
Yes there is no easy contact (they do have a tech support form and they do
answer it) , there is no way to stop spammers ( not on another list either
without manual intervention and you can do that on yahoo groups).
So, it comes down to NIH and NOT HAM , well that is great if the sites
survive but if the traffic gets to heavy they will not survive, especially
if too many competing sites that are HAM come on line.
None of these guys have anything close to the resources of YAHOO. I
congratulate them and in some cases support with my contributions, but I
have little hope for their long term survival, as is being proven by the
desperate calls for support form qsl.net, eham.net and so on.
I belong to 15 yahoo ham radio groups and 10 other groups and have no
problems . They are fast and they are reliable SO FAR at least. :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trlog-admin@contesting.com [mailto:trlog-admin@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Michael Gilmer
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:51 PM
> To: trlog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TRLog] TR Mailing List Users
>
>
> While one could certainly try to set up a group on Yahoo, and
> probably make
> it work eventually (within limits) I don't see why that is in any way
> desirable. The best we can hope for is something we already have: a site
> owned and maintained and administered by active hams like W4AN, KM3T, K5ZD
> and on and on. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it "ham".
>
> And contrary to some comments I've read, I don't see any "dilution" of my
> ham funds by having to support CQ and ARRL and now, some Internet
> entity(ies). These reflectors and web sites offer so much more than the
> magazines; have done so much more to expose like-minded amateurs to each
> others' help/views; have provided countless instant answers
> (right or wrong)
> to countless questions, that it's worth some additional dough.
>
> Mike N2MG
>
> K5TR wrote:
> > Please stop this non-sense.
> >
> > The TR-Log list is not going to move to Yahoo Groups or to
> > MSGroups or any other similar place.
> >
> > There is no need to make any more posts that state how
> > good or bad any of these places would be.
> >
> >
> > I would suggest that if you like the eham.net
> > and contesting.com content that you please make a
> > donation to the cause. I think the eham.net site
> > is pretty cool and I think it would be a shame if it
> > went away.
> >
> > If the machine and the connectivity that supports
> > this mail list were to go away (and I *really* hope it
> > does not) we still will NOT be moving this list to
> > any of the above mentioned services.
> >
> > Thanks - and please support eham and contesting.com.
> >
> > http://www.eham.net/cart/product/111.
> >
>
>
>
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