Subj : Reality Check!
To   : Rachel Veraa
From : Roy Witt
Date : Mon Oct 07 2002 10:22 pm

06 Oct 02 19:49, Rachel Veraa wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 MvdV>> But users do get confused when they see an area HAM and an area
 MvdV>> AMATEUR _RADIO...

 RV> How about an area HAM and an area AMATEUR_SATELLITE and an area XMTRS
 RV> and an area AMATEUR_UHF, etc.

It isn't hard for an Amateur Operator to figure out what either HAM or
AMATEUR_RADIO are all about.  It wouldn't even be confusing to anyone who
holds an interest for the first time. You subscribe to both and take it
from there.  The most active echo would probably be their choice after a
few days of monitoring.

With the shrinking of Fidonet, Amateur Radio interest in Fidonet is waning
with it.  Once there were echoes that covered nearly everything of
interest to the Amateur community.  I hold the TAGs to most of those dead
echoes to discourage the idea of adding more echoes, when they can't be
supported in the network.  It's also easier for them to make the choice by
having one or two echoes, HAM and AMATEUR_RADIO, with every topic of
interest to Amateurs, on topic in both echoes.  The previous moderator of
HAM, for instance, excluded all discussion of Morse Code, Packet Radio
and the Continuous Wave (CW) mode of operation because he didn't want to
deal with it.  That topic and all others are allowed under this moderator.


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