{"id":9739,"date":"2014-05-26T08:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2014-05-26T08:19:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:19:46","slug":"the-tecsun-pl-660-and-pl-880-groups-have-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/the-tecsun-pl-660-and-pl-880-groups-have-disappeared\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tecsun PL-660 and PL-880 groups have disappeared?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"This<\/a>

This is the message you will find if you attempt to visit either Tecsun Yahoo group.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve gotten messages from several readers over the past two days noting that the Tecsun PL-880<\/a> and PL-660<\/a> Yahoo groups have vanished. It’s a shame as these sites have a treasure trove of information in their archives.<\/p>\n

When I look through my Tecsun PL-880 archived emails, I see that the last message from the group was dated May 24th, 2014: two days ago.<\/p>\n

The last thread contained some heated discussions that got quite personal between group members.<\/p>\n

It can be a tough call for group moderators to step in and ask for a discussion to end or to ban a member from the group. You’ll notice (or perhaps not) that I rarely<\/em> moderate comments on the SWLing Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Aside from blatant SPAM, there have only been perhaps two or three comments I’ve moderated in the many years this site has been online. In those cases, commenters were posting personal attacks. I wrote to the commenters and explained why I removed their comments; only one persisted, so I banned his IP address from posting future comments.<\/p>\n

With that said, I’m so proud<\/em> of the community of readers and SWLs here at the SWLing Post!<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I’ve made some great friends through this site and have learned so much from our many readers.<\/p>\n

How many readers? The SWLing Post<\/em> averages about 2,500 daily readers and 120,000 monthly page views. In 2008, I could have never imagined…<\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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