[OZAPRS] ZLAPRS and ZL Packet Lists

[Tony Farrow]

Some good points Darryl. Maybe you should join the WIA and/or NZART
and work within towards changing policies you are not in agreement
with?

Cheers,

Tony VK2AJF

On 01/11/2007, Darryl Smith <Darryl at radio-active.net.au> wrote:
> Hi Phil
>
> Can you please convey to the NZART council and president my view on how
> narrow minded and short sighted this decision is. The intent of the
Amateur
> Radio Hobby is to 'Extend the State of the Radio Art', and the role of
the
> NZART is to support this. I should say that I am not a member of the
NZART,
> but I have been a supporter of the Organization. I have been to two
NZART
> conferences at significant personal expense to assist with extending the
> state of the radio art in New Zealand.
>
> I am on the board of TAPR in the USA - and we have a policy of allowing
> anyone to join our mailing lists. We will ban people and moderate as
> required, but anyone can join. Same goes with this list, although there
is
> no actual organization behind it.
>
> One of the reasons that I am not a member of the WIA is their policy of
not
> allowing publication of articles by non-members except in special
> circumstances. I have written about 7 or 8 papers covering ham radio
that
> have been published internationally and I am well respected in the
> International Ham Digital Community, and I find these type of policies
short
> sighted.
>
> There is of course the argument that the organization should be there
for
> the benefit of the membership. Offering free mailing lists does of
course
> provide services to more than just the membership. But because
non-members
> are on the mailing list, the value of the mailing list is increased.
>
> >From a publicity point of view this is just dumb. At my second NZART
> conference I spoke on marketing the hobby, and how the hobby needs to be
> marketed to the general public, to relatives and to ourselves. By
dropping
> mailing lists the NZART have just marketed against themselves. And this
will
> have a negative impact on membership. If I were a member of an
organization
> that did something like this I would leave, and ensure that people knew
why.
>
>
> Of course costs for the NZART will go up as someone needs to maintain a
list
> of members, and their email addresses, and correlate this to the mailing
> list system.
>
> None of this should of course be read as anything but a personal comment
on
> the situation.
>
> Feel free to forward these comments to those who make these dumb
> decisions...
>
> Darryl
>
>
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