Re: [IRCA] Forwarded from a non-member (radio-related)

[Mike Hardester <DX4EVR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

         My comments FWIW:

         I, too, am a disabled Veteran (and aside from today's 
announcement that all of us who were seen at a VA Facility since 1975 
have had our personal information stolen), getting ANY information 
about a Veteran from the VA is a fruitless effort. That said, either 
someone visits him, has an eyeball QSO and reports back differently, 
we take him at his word. Kinda sad that we have to question things, 
but I guess that's where we are as a society...well, some are.

         Mike

At 18:44 5/22/2006 -0700, Lynn wrote:
>--- Charles A & Leonor L Taylor <calltaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I want to try to help this guy but I don't know if he is legitimate. Can
> > someone investigate him? Maybe we can help as individual members or as a
> > group.
>
>I agree. Here's my $.02:
>
>He apparently sent a message to [IRCA] yesterday after browsing to 
>the IRCA web
>page, not realizing that his message would be rejected since this is a
>members-only group (spammers are good at finding this group - especially ones
>that write in Spanish!). He didn't understand the auto-generated rejection but
>knew to e-mail me to complain - he asked if I had a problem with veterans or
>handicapped people, to which I could only reply that I wasn't sure what he was
>talking about, but that if his message was rejected, the reason for that was
>that [IRCA] is a private (i.e. only members can post) group; if he wanted to
>appeal to the members of [IRCA] for help of a radio-related nature, 
>I'd be glad
>to pass on a message to the group. He then replied back to me that he was
>sorry, apparently we'd started off bad, but this (what I forwarded) was the
>message he'd been trying to post. I told him I'd sent it on to the 
>group, and I
>just got another message from him, thanking me profusely. Yes, that is the
>e-mail address he uses; that's the only one I have for him. I'm not 
>sure how to
>tell whether or not this is a legitimate appeal; it certainly seems on the
>level to me, tho - that's why I passed it on. I haven't heard of any scams
>lately involving any kind of radio, but that doesn't mean they don't exist! I
>think maybe he's looking for radio people in a situation similar to his and
>hoping maybe someone on this group can point him in the right direction. I was
>kinda thinking in the general direction of the "Old Time Radio" groups - there
>are some that specialize in SW listening on the older radios - I remember
>checking out their web pages for links on the IRCA page. Are those 
>groups still
>around?
>
>
>Lynn.
>Lafayette, LA
>Check out the IRCA web site at http://www.ircaonline.org


_______________________________________________
IRCA mailing list
IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irca

Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers

For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org

To Post a message: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx