Good post. I’ve learned a lot from this reflector, and even much of the OT that
I didn’t know I was interested in until I read it...
Chuck
KE9UW
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> On Jul 7, 2018, at 8:05 PM, Jim Ewing wrote:
>
> Agreed. In my law firm, it was interesting to observe which people chose
> to broadcast negative departure emails. There are decent materials out
> there about how to depart a group, including how to send an email if you
> must. See, e.g.,
> https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201705/seven-guidelines-making-great-goodbye
> Includes this quote among others: "Audiences expect, and therefore
> appreciate, your efforts to help them feel good about the person who’s
> leaving (or who has left) and about themselves."
>
> It's hard for me to imagine if the writer down below did not get some good
> things from this reflector over his seven year tenure, even if from time to
> time one must separate the wheat from some chaff. Which effort I usually
> find trivial and sometimes interesting and even productive in unintended
> ways (recent example being the thread on FT-8 which has been helpful to me
> in understanding not only the technology but also how people are reacting
> to it).
>
> FWIW, I think Eric and Elecraft have just the right touch running this
> reflector, and I appreciate what they do and all the excellent information
> that comes from it.
>
> Jim, N4TMM
> ---
> Why do people leaving a list always have to announce it? To make sure
> everyone knows how good they are and how bad everyone else is that's left
> so that we can all feel bad? Sorry I don't, had nothing to do with why you
> left, your choice.
> Why not just unsubscribe without announcing it?
>
> Tom, k2bew
>
>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, 9:41 AM Robert Brock wrote:
>>
>> After almost seven years of reading the Reflector on a daily basis the
> time
>> has come for me to stop. During this period of time changes that the
>> Reflector has undergone have been significant as to how and when the
>> Reflector is to be used.
>>
>> Long ago Eric set up a set of guidelines to keep the Reflector from
>> becoming
>> what other's have evolved into by some who don't appreciate what the
>> Reflector was designed to do. They don't know how to follow simple
>> guidelines or to focus on posted questions without expanding the matter
>> into
>> OT subjects. One stellar example is how a simple question by someone who
>> really needs assistance quickly morphs out of control and rambles through
>> 20
>> or more responses until Eric is required to intervene. The past week
>> certainly has underscored how out of control the Reflector has become.
>>
>> In the future, should I require assistance, I will simply contact Elecraft
>> directly. My appreciation to Eric and others who have tried to make this
>> site something genuinely useful to Elecraft equipment users.
>>
>> No response is needed nor desired. Let this just stand as posted without
>> comment. Thank you.
>>
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