On Oct 3, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Mike Sawyer wrote:
Will, et al,
I challenged the 'administrator' about what calls for being banned from the list. Included were email lists and having a 'lack' of a call sign. Neither one, I pointed out were part of the list's own rules/regs. But that was another day. I'm about ready to "vote with my feet." My only regret is that it isolates some very good technical knowledge that hasn't found its way over here (yet).
Some of those with good technical knowledge are Tom's pals. My take on Tom is that he attracts people who share a common element in their childhoods. Apparently, the attraction is so strong that a number of the technically enlightened will not comment about statements such as Ni-Cr alloys have reverse skin effect at HF.
Mod-U-Lator,
Mike(y)
W3SLK
----- Original Message -----
From: craxd
To: ham_amplifiers@...
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:06 PM
Subject: [ham_amplifiers] Re: Hi-
I know of several that tried and the post never made it. Two did, but
the rest went bye bye. The unnamed, "no-callsign either" moderator,
chortle. My guess is that his callsign is W8JI since W8JI knew why I was booted out when no one else did. Also, the posts I wrote that questioned Tom's questionable technical statements were censored like clockwork.
who was on me about showing a callsign, has his eye on every post that
comes into Amps mainly to protect one person for any, well lets say,
embarrasing moments.
Indeed. If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, ... ...
When a groups moderator censors others posts who contradict one that
is plainly wrong, allowing the wrong comment to show, and not the
correct one, it's not a place to be.
Indeed. However, AMPS was started to protect Tom from what happened on rec.amateur-radio.homebrew in Fall, 1996 - where there was no censor to throttle those who questioned Tom's technical missteps.
Correct being that the one
posting it actually knows what they are talking about! : ) It's even
worse when the moderator lets the one in question take pot shots at
others, and when they reply, the post gets canned before the others
can see it.
The founding fathers of the United States thankfully realized that Censorship is poison.
Now, I admit, I was one of the ones that was guilty of e-mailing
everyone in my address book and bypassing the moderator. The moderator
aimed that one admonishment about harvesting e-mails at two people,
Rich and myself. However, this moderator must think that neither of us
has an address book on our own without his so-called "harvesting"
going on. I thought I still have the right, by the 1st amendment, to
e-mail anyone I damn well wish. I'm not aware that has EVER been
changed.
Moderators/censors/control-freaks dislike being bypassed because it neutralizes their control over others.
Sincerely,
Will
--- In ham_amplifiers@..., R L Measures <r@...> wrote:
On Oct 3, 2006, at 2:40 PM, zerobeat40 wrote:
--- In ham_amplifiers@..., "pentalab" <jim.thomson@>
wrote:
--- In ham_amplifiers@..., "zerobeat40" <zerobeat40@>
wrote:
--- In ham_amplifiers@..., R L Measures <r@...>
wrote:
As I understand it, announcements of this group's existence on
the
AMPS group were somewhat censored.
Your understanding is incorrect. There were several
announcements
of
this group, as well as the larger more-established rfamplifiers
group
on Yahoo that made it to AMPs. Everytime someone posted on this
group
that "my announcement did not get posted", I looked at AMPS -
and
it
was, in fact, posted.
### DREAM ON. I checked 'amps' on contesting .com 3
times
now.... with a microscope [pulling up their archives]..... it
ONLY
got posted TWICE..... once from Mike... once from Alek
later........Jim VE7RF
Yes, that is the distinct number of people who claimed to have
attempted to post it and claimed that it was not posted.
I heard from others who said they tried to post the info about the
new group and it did not not get past the censor.
Thank you for the corroborration.
Z
Yet another unidentified station.
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