On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:05:15PM +0000, Bill Olson wrote:
> Hi Ken, Whew! Even if I agreed with you, which I don't, you don't answer my
> final question. How do you enforce such a rule (rule to eliminate "captive"
> rovers or so-called "manufactured" or good buddy QSO's)? Are you saying I
> cannot *work who I want to* in the contest?? Or that I *can only go roving
> on a route that will result in my best score*??? That really IS silly!
I don't know that I have the right answer. I think a lot of these issues
haven't really received as much attention as they deserve yet, which is
why it's good that they have come up.
A good place to start is to get people discussing contesting ethics and
what kind of competitions we really want to have.
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