Thanks Steve for your good work.
Jim
At 11:43 AM 10/17/98 EDT, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>
>Greetings, TowerTalkians --
>
> TowerTalk is a wonderful resource when it comes to HF antenna and tower
>topics. It is unmoderated which means that everything happens in realtime.
>This also means that anyone can say anything they want. This is supposed to
>encourage the free exchange of information. And most of the time, that's what
>happens.
>
> Recently a thread about concrete degraded into a couple of personal
>attacks that were posted to the 1100 members of TowerTalk. Another one was a
>discussion of Kurt N. Sterba that developed into a defense of TowerTalk's
open
>forum and other passionate posts ("hit the delete key", etc.). These personal
>attacks and off-topic discussions are not only inappropriate but also are
rude
>to the person under attack and the rest of us who have to put up with the
>unnecessary and unwanted bandwidth.
>
> For those of you who posted something recently but have not seen it
>appear on TowerTalk (appropriate or not), some additional filter words have
>been added to keep them off of the reflector by Bill, W4AN, who is the owner
>of the server and contesting.com. It is through Bill's generosity that this
>reflector exists here. Regardless of my personal feelings on the posts, the
>topics and the persons involved, Bill has pre-empted my function as TowerTalk
>administrator by taking it upon himself to squelch the discussions through
his
>sysop abilities. He has offered to take over the administration duties and
I'm
>going to let him do that.
>
> A reflector takes on the personality of its administrator. Anyone who
>subscribes to other ones knows that is true. Bill's attitude is different
from
>mine and TowerTalk will be different under his control.
>
> The last 2-1/2 years of TowerTalk have been fun, interesting and
>frustrating - sometimes at the same time! My thanks to everyone for their
>comments, contributions and support.
>
>Cheers, Steve K7LXC
>
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