Personally I usually do not send leading zeros. I like contests (especially
serials in sweepstakes, or serials in sprints) where nobody sends leading
zeroes.
I do understand that in a pure serial number exchange, some folks will
turnaround faster if I send them TT5 rather than just 5. If I just send a
5, they might hang there a bit waiting for other digits that never come.
I have made the oopsies of having someone send me a 4 digit serial but my
mind keys off "all serials are 3 digits" and I turn it around right after
the 3rd digit and clobber the last digit :-). That's very embarrasing
because I just wasted both of our time needing a fill on a very long serial.
But what I like best of all, is when I blow past 100 in way under an hour
and don't have to think about it again for the rest of the contest :-).
Tim N3QE
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