Re: [IRCA] A note from your list admin

["Bill Block" <billwblock@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Pat

Thank you and I am sure that you will do a very good job.

Bill Block
Prescott Valley, AZ





>From: Lynn Hollerman <lynn@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of 
>America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [IRCA] A note from your list admin
>Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:02:35 -0500
>
>Please excuse the interruption - I wanted to break in tonight and announce
>that Patrick Martin has charitably accepted my request for help and will be
>moderating this list with me!
>
>My main reason for this is that it appears with the increase in list
>traffic, most of the "action" appears to take place either during the day
>while I'm at work (~7am-~5pm Central) or after I've gone to bed (~10pm
>Central) on weeknights. I get my mail at ~6am and somewhere between ~5-~7pm
>Central, and the trend I have been seeing is that there will be some
>disagreement or crisis on [IRCA], and by the time I get to read about it,
>it's already played itself out, and about all I can do is clean up the
>mess. I don't like that at all - I'd prefer to stop any problem as soon as
>it emerges, before it takes on a life of its own. Patrick is on the West
>coast, and gets his e-mail when most of the "action" appears to be taking
>place, so it seems obvious to me that he's going to see these messages
>earlier than I'll be able to get to them.
>
>Keep in mind, this is NOT an attempt to silence any one in particular, and
>this particular action isn't in response to any one message - I'm doing
>this in response to a what I see happening, and being a realist, I have to
>admit I can't handle this alone.
>
>Patrick is a fair and impartial person, not to mention quite a
>knowledgeable DXer. I ask that you please give him the respect and kindness
>that you've shown me. I will still be here, approving subscriptions and
>posts and such, and my address is still the same (lynn@xxxxxxxxx) and the
>door is always open for your questions, complaints, and comments. [IRCA] is
>growing a bit faster than I had anticipated, and I'm not too proud to say
>that I can't keep up with what goes on the way I'd like to.
>
>And speaking of goings on...
>
>The guidelines for this list are on the website - http://www.ircaonline.org
>- and over the past weekend I posted a message summarizing them. In the
>simplest terms I can think of, PLAY NICE! You are all adults here, and I
>expect you to ACT like it. NO personal attacks, period. Yes, you have an
>opinion, and far be it for me to attempt to suppress it, but Lord Above,
>just because you have an opinion on something DOESN'T mean that this is the
>place to voice that! Use your common sense before you hit that "Send"
>button! If something has nothing to do with radio or DXing, well then, it
>doesn't belong posted here - but conversely, that DOESN'T mean that all you
>have to do is have a radio-related item in your post and you can then flame
>away! Remember - if you ACT like children, you will be TREATED like 
>children!
>
>(Ok, back to DX..!)
>
>Lynn.
>Lafayette, LA
>Check out the IRCA Web site at http://www.ircaonline.org
>
>
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