art wrote:
Very interesting , why can't you post like this on other threads?

What?? You're new around here aren't you? Run a search in this group on
"w3rv"for the years 1995 thru 2005 inclusive then kindly reconsider
your comment.

Any of my online food-fight posts which have shown up in this group
recently were cross-posted from Rec.Radio.Amateur.Policy without my
intent or knowledge. RRAP was founded to specifically debate the
contentious code test issue and I've posted to it many times over the
years often in a bit of a combative mode. Which is normal, expected
practice in that particular group. Food-fights are *not* normal,
expected practice in this group and as your search results will
illustrate I *don't* indulge in them in this group.

The problem all the ham radio USENET groups is suffering involves the
behavior of a few members of the "ham community" who have no respect at
all for propriety and civilized behavior and they're destroying
valuable resourses like this group. They obviously come from levels of
society which the average ham would not like to have living anywhere
near their neighborhoods. For lack of a better way to put it . . It's
the same bunch which are turning the HF phone bands into
embarrassments.

It's a shame but that's the way it is these days. The only ways out
seem to be moderated reflectors and discussion groups. Sad.

Brian w3rv