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Re: [GMCnet] Members requesting documents. [message #210562] Mon, 10 June 2013 08:23 Go to previous message
k2gkk is currently offline  k2gkk   United States
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The following are comments from another group

(old radio equipment) with a discussion I believe

applies to the GMC M/H community.



As OUR stuff keeps getting older, it is mandatory

that information be shared!



I have redacted identification of individuals.


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Subject: Re: Members requesting documents.


John,

I have always taken the view that the best way to preserve historic
information is to get it distributed as widely as possible - not try and
lock it away in archives or databases with heavily restricted access.
And that means giving it away freely. That was the policy that I
instituted with the vmars archive - mind you not without considerable
opposition from certain vmars committee members. Since I was the prime
contributor of scanned documents (and thus doing 99% of the work) they
didn't really have much of an argument against it in the end, and so far
that policy has remained in place.

I'm afraid that the wrong sort of people are currently in charge of
this kind of resource. And I do recall warning you (and zzzz zzzzzz)

at the time about zzzzz zzzz and the way he behaves! There
are two schools of thought in this field: we either co-operate
together and share everything for our common good, and for the purpose
of discovering and preserving our history...........or we treat it as
some sort of battleground where everyone competes against everyone else
for control of whatever they can lay their hands on. Its a shame that
the latter view has prevailed, not just in the yyyyyyyy group, but also in
what now calls itself "yyyyyy".

And returning to the complaint in question, in /any/ group, the vast
majority will not contribute visibly. Some will not contribute because
they do not feel they can say anything of value. Some just find typing
hard work!

For most of the life of yyyyyy I was the "key contributor" - very little
of what now exists in yyyyyy would be there if it had not been for my
input. The one area I did not work on was the website, which was down
to zzzz zzzz - another of the key contributors. I did not mind that I
was making a disproportionate contribution because I figured that the
best way to put vintage electronics "on the map" was to enable other
people to do whatever they were doing better. In other words, if
providing a free manual for an AR-88D meant that someone who owned only
an AR-88D was persuaded to keep it and restore it - rather than leave it
to rot or worse, take it down the tip - then that was worthwhile in
itself. The interest in vintage electronics since I started in 1992
has grown like mad - not all of it healthy it has to be admitted - but
in general I am pleased with the results.

So, I suggest that you regard your contribution of documents to that
group as a worthwhile investment in vintage electronics. You may not
every see or understand the exact benefit - but be sure that there will
be one.

Richard




On 09/06/2013 23:37, z. zzzzzzzz wrote:

This was received from a very prominent person in the vintage Mil radio
circles.

I believe it is very typical of those running the Group in question. IMO,
the fault is with the Group Owner and (maybe) Moderator(s), and his
IDIOTIC policies, not the members in question.

I would suggest anyone considering providing any information to that
Group, as a public service, carefully consider whether it will, in fact,
be readily available. I believe that archive, WHICH I HELPED FOUND, and
still has hundreds of my documents and other material, is NOT in the
hobby's interest.


YMMV,


-John


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