I think I've been getting them all. The one you missed had the red cross letter as an attachment. I have noticed that with some ISPs, e-mails that have attachments take considerably longer (measured in hours, not minutes) to reach their recipient(s). My best guess is that this is the result of scanning for viruses and malware and messages with attachments get put through a different scanning process (and thus a different queue) and the attachments just take that much longer to scan, resulting in a backlog. I don't seem to see this with my new hosting service, but I sure did with my old one. For example, Director Vallio once sent me a message and forgot the attachment (which we've all done) and within a minute he realized the omission and re-sent with the attachment. The one without the attachment arrived immediately, and the other one came in nearly 3 hours later. Yet, they were sent perhaps a minute apart. -- Andy At 03:05 PM 11/28/2007, Bill Edgar wrote:

Interesting. I still haven't seen that ODV message.

Last ODV message I've seen is number 16161 from Bruce at 12:16PM today.

Are we having problems with the reflector again?

From: K8JE [mailto:K8JE@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:49 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: Letter to Red Cross

Joel,

Excellent letter.

I would like to restate one suggestion for any new SOU. This is that it should contain a statement that RC encourages the pubic information people involved in disaster/emergency operations to acknowledge the assistance of Amateur Radio operators/clubs in news releases and statements. This suggestion has nothing to do with an ego trip. Instead, it stems from the belief that in addition to good PR's positive effect on our image, recognition given by RC (or any served agency will stimulate interest in the service (and bring new members).

As you commented concerning the mutual benefit of the ARRL-RC association, RC publicity of our assistance to them would be mutually beneficial. More new hams = new folks in the pool of potential operators to help the RC. Taken to the extreme, no new hams = no help.

Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: <mailto:k8je@arrl.org>k8je@arrl.org; Tel.: 513-459-0142 ARRL - The Reason Amateur Radio Is! Members - The Reason ARRL Is!

-----Original Message----- From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5zn@arrl.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:28 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: Letter to Red Cross

Greetings,

In accordance with the instruction of the Executive Committee as recommended by the Ad-hoc Background Investigation Committee, the attached letter has been sent to the American Red Cross concerning our now expired SOU.

73 Joel W5ZN

Andy Oppel andy@andyoppel.com andy_oppel@alamedanet.net