[CQ-Contest] Re: no email for PA QSO party logs?

[Ward Willats]

>I suppose in their defense, you never know what kind of files you're going
>to get...  In the TN QSO Party, we ask for "any ASCII text format, Cabrillo
>prefered".

Even in ASCII land, there are also 3 ASCII line ending conventions:

<cr><lf> - PC
<cr> - Mac
<lf> - Unix/Linux

...and what convention is acceptable is never specified, though 
anything other than the first seems to confuse folks.

Too bad it looks like it may take another 10 years just to cut over 
to Cabrillo, so an XML format that would let the ham community 
leverage all the pre-existing (validating) parsers, databases and 
development/reporting/publishing/syndication tools for that is out of 
the question at this adoption rate.

-- Ward / KG6HAF