Topband Dinner at Visalia

[Jim Brown-10]

Friends,

I'm trying to reserve a seat at the Visalia topband dinner, and just
tried to post a request on the Topband reflector asking the person
organizing the dinner to contact me. W4ZV, the administrator of
topband, rejected my post as inappropriate. Huh? Since when is a
topband dinner at a major hamfest off topic of a topband email list?

Anyhow, I'm still trying to reserve a seat at the Visalia topband
dinner. Would someone pass the word for me to whoever is organizing
it?

Thanks and 73,

Jim Brown K9YC


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[Bill W4ZV]

Jim Brown-10 wrote

I'm trying to reserve a seat at the Visalia topband dinner, and just
tried to post a request on the Topband reflector asking the person
organizing the dinner to contact me. W4ZV, the administrator of
topband, rejected my post as inappropriate. Huh? Since when is a
topband dinner at a major hamfest off topic of a topband email list?

For those too lazy to do a simple search for "visalia 2009" in the Topband archives, they're compelled to post to ~1700 subscribers on that list and then another ~2700 here.  The link below with the answer to this question was even included in my rejection notice:

http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00310.htm

Is it too much to expect folks to actually read the content of messages sent to them privately?  Is it too much to learn to use archive searches?  I think not.

73,  Bill  W4ZV

[Jim Brown-10]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:14:00 -0700 (PDT), Bill W4ZV wrote:

>they're compelled to post to ~1700 subscribers on that list

Did it ever occur to you that at least SOME of those 1700
subscribers to the TOPBAND reflector might also be interested in a
TOPBAND dinner at a major hamfest, and that a part of the reason for
my post was to promote interest in that dinner?  Or was that WHY you
rejected my post?

Jim K9YC


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[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ]

Guys - Please take any further disscussion of this topic off-list.

Eric  WA6HHQ
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill W4ZV <[hidden email]>
Date: Saturday, Mar 14, 2009 2:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Topband Dinner at Visalia
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[Bill W4ZV]

Jim Brown-10 wrote

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:14:00 -0700 (PDT), Bill W4ZV wrote:

>they're compelled to post to ~1700 subscribers on that list

Did it ever occur to you that at least SOME of those 1700
subscribers to the TOPBAND reflector might also be interested in a
TOPBAND dinner at a major hamfest, and that a part of the reason for
my post was to promote interest in that dinner?  Or was that WHY you
rejected my post?

Once more...for the West Coast!  Maybe the 3rd time's the charm!  :-)

The dinner announcement was sent to the Topband list on January 28 (see link below), which was included in my personal email reply to you (apparently not read).  When my memory fails, I usually search the archives first before asking ~1700 Topband folks or ~2700 Elecraft folks.  With this post, now 4 X 2700 = 10,800 unnecessary emails have been sent.

http://lists.contesting.com/_topband/2009-01/msg00310.html   

In the interest of noise reduction, this is my last reply on this subject.

73,  Bill