[CQ-Contest] Calling The Kettle Black - A Call to Action

[Eric Rosenberg]

Joe -- While I appreciate (but don't necessarily understand) your position, but am compelled to ask the following question:

If a contest sponsor decides to make all logs submitted for their contests available to the public, will you not participate in their contests? Will you participate but not submit a log?  

It seems to me that the owner of the contest owns the logs and other items (soapbox comments, photos, etc.) submitted to them.  

73, 
Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:04:52 -0500
>From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv at subich.com>  
>Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Calling The Kettle Black - A Call to Action  
>To: "'Eric Rosenberg - W3DQ'" <w3dq at arrl.net>,<cq-contest at contesting.com>
>
>
>
>> To that end, a proposed call to action.
>> 
>>     Contest clubs worldwide write to the two largest contest 
>>     sponsors, the ARRL and CQ Magazine, along with each and 
>>     every member of the ARRL's Contest Advisory Committee and 
>>     the CQWW Committee requesting that all logs submitted for 
>>     their respective contests be made publicly available within
>>     a specified period of time (30 days?  after the log 
>>     submission deadline.
>
>Not on your life!  My log is my log - I make it available to the contest sponsor for checking as a condition of entry but it is NOT public and should never be made public.  There is no reason for it to be made public. 
>
>The contest sponsor/contest committee has every right to check it for accuracy and operation according to the rules but there is no need for them to open MY LOG to public inspection.  In fact, as the ARRL DXCC rules are currently written, making that log public could subject me to disqualification from DXCC.  
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>There are other approaches that the contest committees can and should take but those are a matter for their internal policies.  
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>73, 
>
>   ... Joe, W4TV 
>