"Mike Czuhajewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterence to the qrplist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fascinating situation. Remember how in the old days that making any criticism of AMQRP was not only frowned on, it was a worse offense than flipping off the Pope while attending one of his weekly audiences in Rome? It would get the offender moderated and maybe even kicked off, and the administrator made no bones about it. It was an extremely touchy subject, absolutely verboten, totally taboo.
Fast forward a bit to a month or two ago, and KI6DS and NorCal basically pull out of AMQRP. Fast forward to the last couple of days, and boy, has the criticism of AMQRP been flying fast and furious! And a lot of it coming repeatedly from the same people, post after post. No one being censured, no one being moderated, and not a peep from the administrator. Why the change? What happened to the Sacred Cow? Conclusions, anyone? PS--years ago I was told that the current administrator was a good friend of Doug Hendricks. This kid glove treatment of AMQRP--at least until recently--is what we, or at least I, call rabid partisanship and that's never a good thing. The old QRP-L, under Jim Eshleman, was distinctly nonpartisan, and THAT'S the way that a true QRP Watering Hole should be. Bring in the partisanship and you destroy the essence of it. Oh, how I prayed that someone would start badmouthing the QRP ARCI on QRP-L just as badly as they were doing to AMQRP in the distant past, so we could see if the rule was No Denigration of Major QRP Groups (the moral High Ground) or simply No Denigration of My Own Favorite Group and Screw Everyone Else (not high ground). Sadly, for me, the QRP ARCI never committed any sin grievous enough to warrant a barrage of any sort, so we never found out the answer, but I think we all know what it is. You can draw whatever conclusions you want about the situation mentioned up top, but to me it speaks volumes. Volumes that I had already known, anyhow. My earlier predictions of a death spiral for QRP-L appear to have been premature, since it seems to have straightened up and matured in recent weeks and turned back into more or less what it was in the glory days. But I will not be surprised if there are further partisan flaps in the future. 73 and queue our pea DE WA8MCQ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Behalf of "Mike Czuhajewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe qrplist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: http://www.zerobeat.net Brought to you courtesy of TLCHost.net http://www.tlchost.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
