Re: [HCDX] Unwanted mails from abroad!

["T. Bankson Roach" <sigint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right on! Good sense is always called for, especially in unusual
circumstances!

Tom Roach

----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Sennitt <andys@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 11:53 AM
Subject: RE: [HCDX] Unwanted mails from abroad!


> Per-Ole Stenman wrote:
>
> > And how do you come to this conclusion??
>
> Because if I was in a country in the middle of a civil war and my life
was
> in danger, I wouldn't give especially high priority to receiving
unsolicited
> mail from someone thousands of miles away :-) Perhaps I'm wrong. But
it's
> only an opinion. I don't expect everyone to agree with me.
>
> > I think it is a dangerous attitude concluding, you cannot send
letters to
> > stations, it is the same as saying "excuse me for being a dx-er".
Most
> > stations appreciate response from their listerners.
>
> It's not an attitude I hold generally, but I prefer to take each case
on its
> merits. A small commercial station in Latin America will be thrilled
to get
> a letter from someone in Sweden. I just can't equate that with the
very
> different circumstances under which Radio Ecclesia is operating. The
Angolan
> government want an excuse to get Ecclesia off the air. I'm quite
certain
> that mail to the station will be intercepted. They could argue that by
> becoming a de facto international broadcaster, the station is in
breach of
> its licence. They could use foreign DXers' reception reports as
evidence of
> this. If, after considering these facts, you still want to go ahead
and send
> a report to Radio Ecclesia, by all means do so. Each of us has to make
our
> own decisions.
>
> Although I work for Radio Netherlands, I am participating here on an
> individual basis. Opinions expressed are my own, and do not
necessarily
> reflect the official position of Radio Netherlands.
>
> Andy Sennitt
>
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