Amen Howard, thanks for your posting about this.  I agree with 
you and think that the list should just muddle along as it is now 
with occasional wonderings off topic but sticking mainly to ham 
and other radio related issues.  73, Jim WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard, W A 9 Y B W" <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:39:24 -0600
Subject: OT Off topic item posts

While at times the list does wander away from Amateur Radio, for 
me that's
OK, sometimes it is a nice diversion.

In general Hams are more knowledgeable in many areas of 
technology than the
typical John Doe.

When the Victor Reader Stream came out I subscribed to the Stream 
e-mail
list and it was full of a bunch of nuts and there were 100 to 200 
messages
per day and few of them contained anything worthwhile in my 
opinion.

What little discussion was had here on the Stream or talking 
thermostat was
in general interesting.

It isn't practical to have a list for every piece of equipment we 
might own
or acquire.

When the occasional off-topic item comes up, it gives some of us 
an
opportunity to help someone.

While some of you may talk about huge Delta loop antennas or Icom 
equipment,
I have no interest in those subjects and find them just as much a 
bother as
the occasional so-called -off-topic item.

I like and collect R.L.  Drake equipment and while it is Ham 
Radio, you all
would get tired of me posting dozens of posts on that subject.

Folks, lighten-up and use this list to learn something outside 
your little
world of Ham Radio and take the opportunity to help someone who 
is having a
problem or is looking for information.

Sorry I got on my soapbox.

To get back to Ham Radio, 73 to all of you!

Howard #3





----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]
To: <[log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: New blind-hams list?


 Relax guys!
 On ham radio many things are talked about besides antennas and 
radios.  If
 we need fast reliable and helpful information, putting the words 
"off
 topic"
 in the subject line, both helps those who don't want to talk 
about
 anything
 except radios amplifiers and antennas, and also gives you back 
fast
 helpful
 information.  Besides I get my information back from people I 
trust.
 If the problem can be solved here, we stay here.  If not, we 
move.  Just
 like a net and QRM.
 Their is a problem and it affects all of us.  Some by sending 
and others
 by
 reading.
 Personally, I wouldn't be comfortable with a list that allowed 
any e-mail
 attachments.  A virus can attack an address book, and bang! 
there you are.
 Their is nothing that prevents a person from using a sendspace 
or dropbox
 link for a file.  The other thing is to just take a few seconds 
to dig the
 address you want to send something to, out of the message 
header.
 For me, the goal is to keep this community together.  What ever 
allows
 that
 to happen is the means to that goal.


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