On May 14, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Marty Durham wrote:
> All true...but how many ham's do NOT have more than one e-mail
> account? I'm
> willing to bet most everyone has hotmail, yahoo, or gmail as well
> as a more
> 'standard' ISP.
>
> And in all the years that I've been using e-mail (pushing 20 now) I
> can't
> recall but one or two instances in the 'early' days of a prolonged
> outage...oh, and when the cable provider was offline for 3 weeks after
> Hurricane Ivan rolled through Pensacola...but I had DSL too...and
> it was
> back online as soon as the power was up.
That's pretty good. Wish I could say the same. Your experience is
one data point, But there are hundreds and even thousands of people
trying to get mail to me, an error rate of just one percent could
leave quite a few people out of luck.
I hope you aren't suggesting that Ops email us their logs from every
email account that they own? Ebombing the sponsor is not a solution
to anything. Having multiple submissions from Ops will just make
things slower during that one hour window.
In addition, I sometimes get an Op who has had a computer problem who
ends up making an excel file. Sometimes something just isn't correct
and needs fixed. I'd just as soon have a repaired log (like if the
time was set to local instead of UT) than DQ the fellow.
If we granted exceptions there would be a whole lot of them:
Rovers
Mobiles
Most County line stations
Portables
It just doesn't accomplish anything useful to require a one hour
submission deadline. It would certainly serve to DQ many more honest
Ops than any cheaters, who can be found using other methods.
What is needed is a view of a bigger picture, not one of thinking
that every Op is using an identical operation, has access to the web
continuously, and has a logging program that spits out a perfect log.
Some Ops just don't have access to the web from where they are
operating.
- 73 de N3LI -
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