[OZAPRS] ozaprs mailing list

[roughplanet]

On August 4 this year, I subscribed to the ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au 
mailing list & received the admittedly computer-generated welcome email.
On October 4, I sent an email to uiview at aprs.net.au requesting
registration 
details as per the mail I received on August 19 regarding same.
Having heard nothing at all, I then posted to this mailing list on October

19,  requesting help re the registration of UI-view. The only reply I 
received was from Allan Wallace, ZL1AMW, the New Zealand provider of
UI-view 
registrations, who was kind enough to supply me with the information I 
needed to register the programme.
The point I wish to make is that ozaprs would appear, from my experience,
to 
be a 'closed shop', and contrary to the 'Welcome' email I received when I 
first subscribed to this mailing list some months ago, new members are not

particularly welcome, and are just ignored.
This is contrary to my experience with other aspects of ham radio, where 
'newbies' are genuinely welcomed & the spirit of amateur radio is alive
and 
well. If you can't be bothered with new members, then close your mailing 
list & no-one will be any the wiser. On the other hand, if this is simply
a 
'one-off', maybe it's time to review your practices to ensure that it 
doesn't occur too often.
I no longer feel miffed at having been ignored, as there are so many other

areas of amateur radio in which to 'dabble' that the apparent exclusion
from 
one, vis. APRS, is of little concern. It's just a pity that ozaprs does
not 
appear to either want or need newcomers, unlike most other areas of  ham 
radio.
Regards,

Laurie Dare
VK3HLD
 

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