Gee, am I about to disagree with Fred, even slightly? I must be nuts!
|All the talk about how people should send an SASE if they expect a
|QSL in return just shows how mercenary we have become as a society.
|I can't see where people are worse off economically than they were
|45 years ago when I started -- most of them are a lot better off.
|What we have is simply a greater degree of selfishness which no
|amount of intellectual gloss can hide.
I send an SASE not because I think the person at the other end can't afford
return mail, but as a courtesy. I don't need or collect U.S. cards for any
award, so it isn't to assure a return. It's basically a way of saying
"thank you" in advance. When I receive an SASE with a QSL request, I have
the same "good feeling".
John, NT5C.
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