Roy Lewallen wrote:
As a reader and frequent contributor to the rec.radio.amateur.antenna
newsgroup, I see a large and increasing volume of messages cross posted
to a large handful of groups which have nothing to do with antennas. Not
surprisingly, I don't see any of the regular contributors to this
newsgroup participating in the endless arguments about Morse code,
testing requirements, and what it takes to be a "real" amateur. These
threads seem to be increasing in number daily, involving the same
participants, and have grown to the point that the signal-to-noise ratio
of rec.radio.amateur.antenna newsgroup is getting seriously degraded.
It's becoming necessary to fish through multiple off-topic threads to
find the postings involving antennas.

There's no point in including rec.radio.amateur.antenna in the list of
newsgroups you send these postings to. There are certainly groups whose
readers are much more interested in participating or reading about these
topics.

So my request is: Please don't include rec.radio.amateur.antenna in the
list of newsgroups you send the original posting to. And when replying
to a thread whose topic doesn't involve antennas, simply delete
rec.radio.amateur.antenna from the list of newsgroups receiving the
reply, before clicking "Send". This won't detract in any way from your
discussions, and will be a relief for rec.radio.amateur.antenna readers
and participants.


Oh boy, Roy! I fear you just encouraged them! Once upon a time I posted
fairly regularly in the policy group. Then we got a new member who was
happy to e-bomb the group with the help of a lot of throwaway addresses.
Heaven help ya if he chooses you as a target. I think what happened in
policy was that a lot of regulars were chased away, or just got bored
with hearing about others supposed sexual deviancy, and of course Morse
code testing.....

Of course it isn't any fun for those types if they don't have anyone to
fight with. I suspect that the malignancy has just metastasized to the
other groups to get more sparring partners. 8^)

Groups trimmed to not be a part of the problem...

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -

Roy, you're right.

Phished in no more.