On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Roger Cooke <roger@g3ldi.co.uk> wrote:
How about making the sending of the name, TU, and greetings ( GA, GE or
> whatever) a
> mandatory thing? If everybody HAD to send those, RTTY would be seen in a
> new light of a
> Gentleman's Mode. This was how it was described in the early days of
> RTTY. I mean EARLY
> days too, as I was active in the early 1960s.
>
There is NOTHING I hate more than people who doesn't know me from Adam,
greeting me in a contest as Henry. Obviously, they don't know me because
the only one who ever called me Henry was my mother and then only when she
was mad.
Artificial, imposed-by-rules, friendliness is worse than meaningless. It's
stupid.
Artificial, do-it-because-your-super-dooper-software-allows-you-to-do-it,
friendliness is worse than meaningless, It's stupid.
73,
Hank, W6SX
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