Re: Re: [HCDX]: Fine Tuning

["Tom Roach" <sigint@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To all concerned about FT and Don Moore:

Have received other complaints [you want me to forward them?].
Regardless of his Larry's or family's personal sickness there are three
other people who ALSO are editors. Gayle Van Horne has had no luck
contacting FT. If they had told one person like Gayle or posted to the
list, people would know. I don't question Larry Yamron personally, but I
sure as hell question the ethics of a group that accepts money and
doesn't deliver. There is NO excuse for no explanation, especially since
one of them recently posted a long message about his DX vacation. .
Larry was not the only "editor" of FT. When I get an order for a book, I
fulfill it immediately or explain to the customer what the delay is
IMMEDIATELY. I'm 100 percent disabled. Life goes on. Stop making excuses
for them. They owe paying subscribers an explanation. My computer has
been inoperative for a few days. I will post tonight, or tomorrow, the
names of the other editors as I promised.

Tom Roach

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Moore <MOORE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxx <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, April 03, 1998 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [HCDX]: Fine Tuning


>I haven't been a member of FT for a year or two, so can't comment
>directly on the situation. However, a few things should be noted.
>First, FT has been in existence for around 20 years and the current
>publisher, Larry Yamron, has been doing that for around 12-13 years.
>That involved weekly or bi-weekly mailings of a newsletter to around
>120-150 members, including printing, folding, envelope-stuffing, etc.
>on a 100% volunteer basis. I know that Larry's son, who must be around
>13 or 14 now, always helped him with it. I know that Larry's wife has
>been very sick for several years and had a lung transplant (maybe a
>double lung transplant - I can't remember) about two or three years
>ago. Her health has not been good since and I hope she has not taken
>another turn for the worse.
>
>I've known Larry personally since 1985, and there are people on this
>list like Dan Ferguson who have known him much longer. I think we
>can all vouch that Larry is not a crook behind a fly-by-night, rip-you-
>off operation. It is totally unwarranted to question Larry's honesty
>and intentions, as was done in a previous e-mail.
>
>Before throwing out accusations, it makes more sense to investigate
>the problem. Has anyone tried contacting the editors to see what they
>know? Dave Valko, are you on this list? If e-mail doesn't work,
>perhaps some FT members could try calling one or more of the editors
>and/or Larry Yamron himself and report back. Of course, any phone
>calls should be made in a civilized manner.
>
>I also want to state that I am disappointed that the e-mail message
>questioning Larry's honesty was approved for this list. It was
>clearly a strongly-worded flame and should have been returned to the
>sender. We don't need that tone of voice on this list. One only needs
>look at what happened to rec.radio.shortwave to see what allowing
>flaming can do.
>
>Don Moore   moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>http://www1.mcrest.edu/~moore
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