[CQ-Contest] W2EV's open plea to robot writers

[Tree]

> Please write robots to parse on character position, not "space delimited".  
> Please?
> 
> Doing so eliminates a major flaw in some robot submittal systems like the one 
> we just got done discussing (the Stew Perry -- but I'm now finding others with 
> similar problem).  In that contest, a log must include fraudulent information 
> in order to be properly processed (ie- one must "lie", saying that they 
> exchanged 599's when they didn't, in fact).

I am sorry the BARC is making people lie.  It seemed like the best "solution"
given the paramters.

The request above makes no sense.  You have to see the logs that we get over
time and realize that parsing on character positions is a non-starter.  I
thought I had said that before - but maybe I deleted the message before I 
sent it.

This whole thing is getting rather tiring.

Nobody is lying if they put a dummy report in the log - it is just what we
need to make it work.  Geeezzz..

And many thanks to the 400 or so of you who actually figure out how to do 
this without complaining.

73 Tree N6TR
tree at kkn.net