[CQ-Contest] ARRL and Open Logs - Time for the next step?

[Richard DiDonna NN3W]

Ummm, because by submitting to the contest sponsor, you've entered into 
amateur radio's version of an adhesion contract.  You agree to abide by 
their terms if you want to submit.

Its that simple.

73 Rich NN3W
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K0HB " <k-zero-hb at earthlink.net>
To: "Pete Smith" <n4zr at contesting.com>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL and Open Logs - Time for the next step?


> N4ZR:
>
>>
>> As for your logs being your property, not to be disclosed to others, does
>> that mean that you will no longer enter that pesky, "unconscionable" CQWW
>> contest?
>>
>
> Obviously CQ (or ARRL, or Contest-Sponsor-XYZ) needs my logs to score 
> their
> contest.
>
> But I could make a pretty good argument that those logs are a private
> document transacted between me and the scoring team, and that any public 
> or
> 3rd-party disclosure beyond that needed for the "scoring process" is an
> abuse of that privacy.  Reasonable people have disagreed with me, but none
> have persuaded me that their position has merit.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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>
>
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